Bleeping Computer

New Aquabotv3 botnet malware targets Mitel command injection flaw

A new variant of the Mirai-based botnet malware Aquabot has been observed actively exploiting CVE-2024-41710, a command injection vulnerability in Mitel SIP phones. The activity was discovered by ...
Forbes

Android TV Users Beware: Vo1d Malware Botnet Now Controls 1.6M Devices

Cybercriminals are constantly evolving their methods, and the latest example of this is the alarming spread of the Vo1d malware botnet. This highly sophisticated malware has now infected 1,590,299 ...

Over one million Android devices infected with password-stealing, pre-installed botnet malware — how to stay safe

Researchers at HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence team worked alongside Google, Trend Micro, The Shadowserver Foundation and ...
InfoWorld

Web attackers start borrowing domain generation tricks from botnet-type malware

Hackers have started to adopt domain-generation techniques normally used by botnet-type malware in order to prolong the life of Web-based attacks, according to security researchers from antivirus firm ...
CSOonline

‘Operation Endgame’ deals major blow to malware distribution botnets

The law enforcement operation has disrupted key infrastructure of the cybercrime ecosystem in what may be the largest botnet takedown of all time. In what Europol calls the largest-ever takedown ...
Computer Weekly

Europol sting operation smokes multiple botnets

Some of the most prominent malware-dropping botnets in operation today, including Bumblebee, IcedID, Pikabot, Smokeloader, SystemBC and Trickbot, have been disrupted in a coordinated law enforcement ...
Bleeping Computer

Mirai DDoS malware variant expands targets with 13 router exploits

A Mirai-based DDoS (distributed denial of service) malware botnet tracked as IZ1H9 has added thirteen new payloads to target Linux-based routers and routers from D-Link, Zyxel, TP-Link, TOTOLINK, and ...