The threat actor behind the internet's largest WordPress botnet is using an anti-adblocker script to make sure the ads they inject on hacked sites are showing up in users' browsers and generating a ...
When hackers corral infected computers into a botnet, they take special care to ensure they don’t lose control of the server that sends commands and updates to the compromised devices. The precautions ...
The latest Web technologies can be used to build a secure and distributed file storage system by loading a piece of JavaScript code into users’ Web browsers without them knowing, a researcher ...
The big picture: The TP-Link Archer AX21 (AX1800) Wi-Fi router is once again being targeted by cyber-criminals trying to build an army of bots with DDoS capabilities. But Condi isn't just another ...
A cryptomining gang known as 8220 Gang has been exploiting Linux and cloud app vulnerabilities to grow their botnet to more than 30,000 infected hosts. The group is a low-skilled, ...
A new report out today from Fortinet Inc.’s FortiGuard Labs details the activities of two different botnets observed through October and November that are being spread through vulnerabilities in ...
Security researchers have discovered a new worm and botnet dubbed Gitpaste-12, named for its usage of GitHub and Pastebin to host component code and the 12 known vulnerabilities it exploits to ...
Bulgarian security researcher Dr. Vesselin Bontchev recently opened his honeytrap nets and found that he had caught something fairly unique and potentially very dangerous -- a new type of botnet.