Researchers detail Aeternum C2 storing botnet commands on Polygon blockchain, while DSLRoot operates 300 residential proxy devices across U.S.

A newly identified botnet loader is shifting command-and-control (C2) operations onto the Polygon blockchain, eliminating the central servers that authorities and security firms have historically ...

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Outlook add-in phishing, Chrome and Apple zero-days, BeyondTrust RCE, cloud botnets, AI-driven threats, ransomware activity, and critical CVEs.

For the past week, the massive “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet known as Kimwolf has been disrupting The Invisible Internet Project (I2P), a decentralized, encrypted communications network designed ...

Aisuru smashed previous records with a 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack. It appeared to have focused on telecommunications providers. Seemingly safe and small devices can be weaponized for massive cyberattacks.

Many of you probably unwrapped a smart device this Christmas. Operated via Wi-Fi, it cooks, cleans, heats, cools, etc. But did you know it could also be moonlighting as a bot? The likelihood is ...

Android TV streaming boxes that promise "everything for one price" are everywhere right now. You'll see them on big retail sites, in influencer videos, and even recommended by friends who swear ...

A botnet known as GoBruteforcer has been actively targeting Linux servers exposed to the internet, using large-scale brute-force attacks against common services such as FTP, MySQL, PostgreSQL and ...

The threat actors behind the RondoDox botnet are among the latest attackers to take advantage of the React2Shell flaw, weaponizing the vulnerability as an initial access vector to deploy other ...

Time and again, hackers infect other people’s computers as well as routers or other network devices in order to misuse them for their botnet. What’s a botnet, you ask? Simply put, it’s a collection of ...