The operation disrupted Russian GRU control over infected devices by removing Cyclops Blink botnet malware from the infected WatchGuard Firebox devices used as command-and-control (C2) servers.
Pernicious botnet used for cryptojacking has taken a major blow thanks to Google. Glupteba has been operating for some months and was thought to be compromising thousands of people per day at its peak.
Botnet discovered by Chinese researchers introduced a backdoor and a web shell on compromised AT&T VoIP servers, mostly in the US, for DDoS attacks and data exfiltration.
Yandex warded off the largest DDoS attack in history recorded at 22 million requests per second and attributed to a new botnet Meris that exploits MikroTik devices.
The US Cyber Command is expecting the TrickBot botnet to be involved in election interference attempts, and is actively running persistent operations against it along with Microsoft.
Rapidly evolving botnet Dark Nexus is threatening IoT security as the dependency on connected devices grows with remote working during COVID-19 pandemic.
Stolen documents from Russia’s FSB indicate that the country is building an IoT botnet capable of gigantic DDoS attacks by rounding up millions of poorly-secured devices.
Learn about the top five attacks that use malicious bots and find out how organizations can keep the harmful automated traffic out of their companies sites and away from their customers.
Owner of a botnet has leaked the access credentials for more than 515,000 servers and claimed they were changing business models to make use of cloud service providers instead.
A trend is growing where online travel agencies and travel aggregators are unleashing armies of bots to run price scraping operations which may in certain cases, hoard tickets and prevent humans from making travel arrangements.
