Hackers took over the very same hacked devices the FBI had just cleaned out. What was supposed to be a federal win turned ...

Microsoft warns that Chinese threat actors use the Quad7 botnet, compromised of hacked SOHO routers, to steal credentials in password-spray attacks. Quad7, also known as CovertNetwork-1658 or xlogin, ...

The Vo1d malware botnet found on 1.3 million devices back in September 2024 has grown significantly. According to a report ...

Threat actors are exploiting exposed Docker APIs to deploy malware and cryptocurrency miners and potentially create a new botnet.

Vo1d is a long-known botnet that infects Android TV devices, and security experts from XLab have now discovered a new variant that’s said to have infected over 1.6 million Android TV devices around ...

Google has filed a lawsuit against the operators of a what is believed to be the largest smart TV botnet in the world — BadBox 2.0. The company said in its complaint that this China-based botnet had ...

If you’ve ever wandered through some of the less-legitimate corners of the internet and/or the real world, you may have seen those “stream everything for free” Android TV set-top boxes for sale. As it ...

According to security analysis, the Gayfemboy botnet, based on the notorious Mirai malware, is currently spreading around the world. Researchers from Chainxin X Lab found that cybercriminals have been ...

For this week’s Small Business profile, I caught up with Ashar Aziz, the CEO of FireEye, a fast-growing Milipitas computer security firm that’s known as the “Botnet Buster” for its reputation for ...

Hackers, possibly of Chinese affiliation, are targeting organizations in the west with a large-scale password spraying attack, experts have claimed. A report from cybersecurity researchers ...

Aquabotv3 is actively exploiting a known vulnerability in Mitel devices to include them in its botnet, according to Akamai's Security Intelligence and Response Team. A third variant of the Mirai-based ...

The attack chain essentially involves breaking into misconfigured Docker APIs to execute a new container based on the Alpine ...