botnet

October 7, 2024

New Gorilla Botnet Launches Over 300,000 DDoS Attacks Across 100 Countries

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new botnet malware family called Gorilla (aka GorillaBot) that is a variant of the leaked…
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October 4, 2024

Cloudflare Thwarts Largest-Ever 3.8 Tbps DDoS Attack Targeting Global Sectors

Cloudflare has disclosed that it mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 3.8 terabits per second (Tbps)…
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October 1, 2024

New Cryptojacking Attack Targets Docker API to Create Malicious Swarm Botnet

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new cryptojacking campaign targeting the Docker Engine API with the goal of co-opting the instances…
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September 26, 2024

Chinese Hackers Infiltrate U.S. Internet Providers in Cyber Espionage Campaign

Nation-state threat actors backed by Beijing broke into a “handful” of U.S. internet service providers (ISPs) as part of a…
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September 24, 2024

Necro Android Malware Found in Popular Camera and Browser Apps on Play Store

Altered versions of legitimate Android apps associated with Spotify, WhatsApp, and Minecraft have been used to deliver a new version…
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September 23, 2024

THN Cybersecurity Recap: Last Week’s Top Threats and Trends (September 16-22)

Hold on tight, folks, because last week’s cybersecurity landscape was a rollercoaster! We witnessed everything from North Korean hackers dangling…
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September 20, 2024

Europol Shuts Down Major Phishing Scheme Targeting Mobile Phone Credentials

Law enforcement authorities have announced the takedown of an international criminal network that leveraged a phishing platform to unlock stolen…
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September 18, 2024

New “Raptor Train” IoT Botnet Compromises Over 200,000 Devices Worldwide

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a never-before-seen botnet comprising an army of small office/home office (SOHO) and IoT devices that are…
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September 13, 2024

New Linux Malware Campaign Exploits Oracle Weblogic to Mine Cryptocurrency

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new malware campaign targeting Linux environments to conduct illicit cryptocurrency mining. The activity, which specifically…
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September 11, 2024

Quad7 Botnet Expands to Target SOHO Routers and VPN Appliances

The operators of the mysterious Quad7 botnet are actively evolving by compromising several brands of SOHO routers and VPN appliances…
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