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Botnets

Short bio Botnets are networks of computers infected by a botnet agent that are under hidden control of a third party....

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News | Ransomware

Qakbot botnet infrastructure suffers major takedown

August 31, 2023 - The Qakbot botnet has suffered a major setback after its infrastructure was heavily disrupted by US and European law enforcement agencies....

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Business

Port scan attacks: Protecting your business from RDP attacks and Mirai botnets

April 14, 2023 - Compromised IP addresses and domains—otherwise legitimate sites that are exploited by hackers without the owner’s knowledge—are frequently utilized to conduct port...

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Exploits and vulnerabilities | News

Sysrv botnet is out to mine Monero on your Windows and Linux servers

May 18, 2022 - In a Twitter thread, the Microsoft Security Intelligence team have revealed new information about the latest versions of the Sysrv botnet....

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News

Zloader, another botnet, bites the dust

April 14, 2022 - Microsoft has announcedthat its Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) has taken legal and technical action to disrupt a malicious botnet called Zloader....

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Exploits and vulnerabilities | News

Realtek-based routers, smart devices are being gobbled up by a voracious botnet

August 24, 2021 - A few weeks ago we blogged about a vulnerability in home routers that was weaponized by the Mirai botnet just two...

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Android devices caught in Matryosh botnet

February 9, 2021 - Researchers at Netlab have discovered a new botnet that re-uses the Mirai framework to pull vulnerable Android devices into DDoS attacks....

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News

Emotet is back: botnet springs back to life with new spam campaign

September 16, 2019 - After a fairly long hiatus that lasted nearly four months, Emotet is back with an active spam distribution campaign. For a...

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Cybercrime | News

Electrum DDoS botnet reaches 152,000 infected hosts

April 29, 2019 - By Jérôme Segura, Adam Thomas, and S!Ri We have been closely monitoring the situation involving the continued attacks against users of...

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News

Malwarebytes helps take down massive ad fraud botnets

November 28, 2018 - On November 27, the US Department of Justice announced the indictment of eight individuals involved in a major ad fraud case...

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