Kimwolf botnet exploits smart gadgets for DDoS attacks, highlighting security lapses in device protection and supply chains.

Cheap Android TV boxes have quietly become one of the most dangerous devices on the home network, not because of what you ...

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Three men pleaded guilty to creating a "botnet" known as Mirai that was used to paralyze chunks of the internet in 2016. Paras Jha, Josiah White and Dalton Norman admitted to one count of conspiracy ...

Cryptocurrency and blockchain project databases with weak credentials and AI-generated are being hacked through deployment ...

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 ...

A relatively new Mirai-based botnet has been growing in sophistication and is now leveraging zero-day exploits for security flaws in industrial routers and smart home devices. Exploitation of ...

A number of botnets are pummeling a nearly year-old command-injection vulnerability in TP-Link routers to compromise the devices for IoT-driven distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. There ...

Security experts contend that a growing number of operators of compromised computer networks (or “botnets”) are finding new ways to grow their networks and make them immune to potential shutdowns, ...

A Chinese-controlled botnet of tens of thousands of unpatched internet-connected firewalls, network attached storage devices, internet-connected surveillance cameras, and small office/home office ...