Tag : Botnet
Global Bot Network ‘Dorkbot’ Busted and Taken Down
There are two well-known groups that both use the name Dorkbot, one being a great group of organizations that sponsor grassroots meetings of artists, engineers, designers, scientists, inventors, and anyone else working under the very broad…
Numerous Security Cameras Have Been Turned into a Botnet by Malware
It’s not exactly news that security cameras can be hacked, but turning a bunch of them into a botnet using malware is not exactly a regular occurrence. However, that’s exactly what has happened with about 900 Linux-based…
Wifatch: The Vigilante Malware
Malware. That one word which seems to inspire fear and dread in everybody who hears it, even more so when you’ve experienced it first hand on one of your many devices. Malicious Software, or Malware for…
Hola CEO Responds to Botnet Controversy
Hola, the peer-to-peer (P2P) VPN provider, was recently accused of allowing its customers’ network to be used to form botnets to launch malicious cyber-attacks. A group of researchers, under the banner Adios, discovered that up to…
Anonymous Accused of Running Botnet With Thousands of Hacked Home Routers
Haven’t yet changed your router username and password from “admin/admin”? If so, then your router could be part of a massive botnet, possibly run by members of Anonymous, according to cybersecurity experts Incapsula. The network of…
Simda Botnet Taken Down After Affecting 777,000 PC’s Worldwide
Sidma has been around for the past 6 months, causing pain to PC owners across the world. It infected 128,000 computers each month – a phenomenal rate for a botnet. The bot changed into a new…
US Law Enforcement Offer $3M Reward for Gameover ZeuS Botnet Suspect
The U.S. Department of Justice and the Department of State’s Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program is offering a $3 million reward for information that leads to the arrest or conviction of Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, the man…
Lizard Squad Hacked Home Routers to DDoS Attack Xbox Live and PSN
Brian Krebs, an online security blogger, has found how hacker group Lizard Squad managed to amass the trafficking power to take down Xbox Live and PlayStation Network over Christmas, and the answer lies very close to…
New Botnet Composed out of Mac Systems Discovered
The times where Mac users were relatively safe from malicious attacks is long gone. As we all know, no system is secure and everything can be broken, it’s just a matter it being worth the effort. With…
Hackers Use ‘The Cloud’ to Control Malware and Botnets
Security firm Trend Micro has apparently revealed new evidence of botnets and malware not only being hosted in the cloud, but also being remotely controlled from cloud servers. The main goal for hackers has been revealed…
Cross-Platform DDoS Botnet Warning Released By Security Researchers
A new DDoS Botnet has the ability to infect both Microsoft Windows along with Linux-based systems, according to the Poland Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT). Unlike many cyber-based attacks, this botnet is only interested in launching…
Russian Botnet Taking Over Tor Network, Now Accounts For 80% Of Users
Reports suggest that a Russian Botnet has managed to infiltrate and flood the Tor network. The number of Tor users has been slowly rising as people look to protect themselves from government surveillance and take more…
WordPress Powered Websites Under By Brute-Force By Bot-Nets
It has been reporting by hosting companies like HostGator and even CDN service ‘CloudFlare’ that there are unknown people behind highly distributed global attacks via brute force attempts using more than 90,000 IP addressing trying to…
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