SystemBC botnet hijacks VPS servers, making up 80% of its active proxy nodes Infected VPS machines relay traffic for phishing, brute-force, and ransomware operations Bots generate high-volume traffic ...

Since May 2018, a malware botnet has been launching brute-force attacks against Microsoft SQL (MSSQL) databases to take over admin accounts and then install cryptocurrency mining scripts on the ...

Hyper-volumetric DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks in the first quarter of 2023 have shifted from relying on compromised IoT devices to leveraging breached Virtual Private Servers (VPS).

For the second time in less than a year, Microsoft has helped bust a botnet. On Friday, U.S. Marshals, together with representatives from Microsoft and two financial industry associations, seized Zeus ...

A newly-discovered peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet has been found targeting a remote code execution vulnerability in Linux Webmin servers. Vulnerable Linux Webmin servers are under active attack by a ...

Researchers at Guardicore Labs have discovered a sophisticated peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet actively targeting SSH servers worldwide since at least January 2020. The botnet, dubbed FritzFrog, has been ...

Earlier this week, Microsoft Defender for IoT researchers discovered malicious downloads that affect Windows and Linux devices. These downloads, among other propagation methods, ensnare local devices ...

Researchers have uncovered over a dozen servers, unusually registered in the United States, which are hosting ten different malware families spread through phishing campaigns potentially tied to the ...

Almost anything with an internet connection can be hijacked and used in a malicious botnet attack–IoT devices are especially popular targets. Learn how to spot and prevent this malware threat. When a ...

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 ...