Cybersecurity researchers at Lumen Technologies Black Lotus Labs recently detailed the works of the SyxtemBC botnet, active since early 2019, which has quietly amassed more than 80 command-and-control ...

As artificial intelligence makes its way into everything from search engines to smart fridges, cybercriminals are capitalizing on the same tech to supercharge their attacks. Botnets, once seen as ...

The ShadowV2 DDoS operation, discovered by Darktrace, uses a command-and-control framework hosted on GitHub CodeSpaces, a ...

ShadowV2 botnet exploits AWS Docker flaws using Python C2 and Go RAT, enabling sophisticated DDoS-for-hire attacks.

The campaign detailed in the report, dubbed “ShadowV2,” is a Python-based command-and-control framework hosted on GitHub ...

The FBI's effort to clean and release tens of thousands of botnet-infected computers has backfired, with hackers now weaponizing these devices for potential cyber attacks.

The malware also has code that could attack Telnet (port 23) and Chromium’s debugging port (9222). For the former, it would brute-force weak routers and other devices, while for the latter it could ...

Hackers took over the very same hacked devices the FBI had just cleaned out. What was supposed to be a federal win turned into a feeding frenzy, where criminals moved fast to grab nearly 95,000 ...

Hackers are keeping Cloudflare busy these days with increasingly bigger distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks at a ...

In fact, CISA recently added three TP-LINK flaws to KEV, CyberInsider reported, including CVE-2023-50224 (an authentication bypass by spoofing vulnerability), and CVE-2020-24363 (a factory reset and ...

The record-breaking DDoS against Cloudflare reached 22.2Tbps, about double the intensity of an earlier attack this month. The ...

The rise of generative artificial-intelligence tools has made botnet campaigns both easier to manage and harder to detect.