You might have heard of “botnets.” The term typically describes a huge network of hijacked computers-most of which belong to ordinary people-under the control of a hacker, who uses them to attack ...
Some of the most powerful DDoS attacks ever detected have been revealed by cybersecurity company StormWall. This specific botnet, which enabled DDoS attacks of up to 2TB/s, sets a new record over the ...
As artificial intelligence makes its way into everything from search engines to smart fridges, cybercriminals are capitalizing on the same tech to supercharge their attacks. Botnets, once seen as ...
The latest attack using the Mirai botnet shows just how vulnerable we humans are in the IoT world. Millions of US internet users lost access to popular online sites like Twitter, Spotify, Reddit and ...
SystemBC botnet hijacks VPS servers, making up 80% of its active proxy nodes Infected VPS machines relay traffic for phishing, brute-force, and ransomware operations Bots generate high-volume traffic ...
The ShadowV2 DDoS operation, discovered by Darktrace, uses a command-and-control framework hosted on GitHub CodeSpaces, a ...
The Mirai botnet wreaked havoc on the internet in late 2016. Last year, the botnet known as Mirai recruited unsecured IoT devices, marshalling them into a thousands-strong DDoS attack that led to ...
The campaign detailed in the report, dubbed “ShadowV2,” is a Python-based command-and-control framework hosted on GitHub ...