A newly discovered worm and botnet named Gitpaste-12 lives on GitHub and also uses Pastebin to host malicious code. The advanced malware comes equipped with reverse shell and crypto-mining ...

An apparent Russian script kiddie is converting widespread security gaps into a powerful botnet capable of launching global-scale distributed denial-of-service attacks. See Also: Reduce Cloud Risk in ...

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, ...

Operators of the LemonDuck botnet are targeting Docker instances in a cryptocurrency mining campaign. LemonDuck is cryptocurrency mining malware wrapped up in a botnet structure. The malware exploits ...

A series of known and powerful botnets are ramping up attacks against Web-exposed assets such as PHP servers, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and cloud gateways to gain control over network ...

Researchers at cybersecurity software provider Qualys Inc. are warning of a new Mirai botnet variant that’s being used to target vulnerabilities in AVTECH Cameras and Huawei HG523 routers. The variant ...

LAS VEGAS -- Black Hat USA -- Thrifty attackers, are you tired of investing your dollars in a botnet that's constantly being disrupted by new anti-virus signatures and bot downtime? A "cloudbot" might ...

Botnets don’t target and infect computers from specific business to be part of the botnet. Instead, they spread by systematically working through a list of IP addresses, or dynamically scanning the ...

Some cloud providers fail to detect and block malicious traffic originating from their networks, which provides cybercriminals with an opportunity to launch attacks in a botnet-like fashion, according ...