Bondnet botnet goes after vulnerable Windows servers
A botnet consisting of some 2,000 compromised servers has been mining cryptocurrency for its master for several months now, “earning” him around $1,000 per day. …
Malware Hunter: Find C&C servers for botnets
Recorded Future and Shodan released Malware Hunter, a specialized crawler for security researchers that explores the Internet to find computers acting as remote access trojan …
BrickerBot bricked 2 million IoT devices, its author claims
The author of BrickerBot, which “bricks” IoT devices by rewriting the flash storage space and wiping files, has emerged to explain that the malware first attempts …
Locky ransomware makes a comeback, courtesy of Necurs botnet
The Necurs botnet has, once again, begun pushing Locky ransomware on unsuspecting victims. The botnet, which flip-flops from sending penny stock pump-and-dump emails to …
Alleged Kelihos botmaster indicted
36-year-old Pyotr Levashov was charged on Friday in the US with one count of causing intentional damage to a protected computer, one count of conspiracy, one count of …
Linksys Smart Wi-Fi routers full of flaws, but temporary fix is available
Over 20 models of Linksys Smart Wi-Fi routers have been found to have vulnerabilities that, if exploited, could allow attackers to overload a router and force a reboot, deny …
Hajime IoT worm infects devices to head off Mirai
Mirai is the name of the worm that has taken control of many IoT devices around the world and used them to mount DDoS attacks, the most high-profile of which was directed …
IoT devices under attack: Amnesia hijacks, BrickerBot destroys
Every hour of every day, computer systems and IoT devices are under attack by bots trying to recruit them into growing botnets. Security researchers have recently highlighted …
20,000-bots-strong Sathurbot botnet grows by compromising WordPress sites
A 20,000-bots-strong botnet is probing WordPress sites, trying to compromise them and spread a backdoor downloader Trojan called Sathurbot as far and as wide as possible. …
Video: TinyNuke botnet explained
In the videos below, McAfee Labs show the setup requirements for installing and deploying TinyNuke. They review the available features of TinyNuke through the control panel, …
UK residents hit with extremely personalized scam emails
A compelling and potentially very successful email spam campaign is being leveraged against UK residents, warns Sophos researcher Paul Ducklin. The email addresses the …
How the Necurs botnet influences the stock market
After a three-months-long partial hiatus, the Necurs botnet is back to flinging spam emails left and right. But unlike before the break, when it was mostly delivering the …
