Tag: Botnet
Nearly 100,000 D-Link NAS Used in Botnet Due to Simple Attack
Corentin Béchade April 9, 2024 at 7:27 a.m. 3 Some D-Link NAS are prime targets for hackers © D-Link If you have a network hard drive (NAS) from D-Link, it…
Interplanetary Storm: a botnet of 23,000 devices dismantled by the FBI
Maxence Glineur November 15, 2023 at 3:48 p.m. 1 The FBI is also very active when it comes to investigating cybercriminals © Postmodern Studio / Shutterstock A hacker made hundreds…
A very strange affair: the mystery of the kill switch of the Mozi botnet
It was one of the large botnets, with over 1.5 million infected machines. But the Mozi malware, which exploited the vulnerabilities of hundreds of thousands of Internet of Things machines,…
New revival of activity on the side of the Emotet botnet
Is the sleeper waking up again? As reported by Bleeping Computer, cybersecurity firm Cofense just reported a resumption of Emotet botnet activity last Tuesday. It had been about three months…
Beware, the Emotet botnet is back and pretends to be the Chamber of Notaries of Paris
Alexander Boero November 04, 2022 at 3:30 p.m. 0 The Emotet group, which had taken a short break for a few months, is back on the cyber scene, and particularly…
Emotet: the terrible botnet returns pretending to be the Chamber of Notaries of Paris
The Emotet group, which had been inactive for several months, has just resumed service. Indeed, computer security researchers from Proofpoint claim that hackers have returned with a new phishing campaign…
Cloudflare warns of botnet heir Meris
Content delivery network (CDN) company Cloudflare says the botnet behind the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks it has recorded has targeted nearly 1,000 of its customers over the past few…
US decommissions Russian botnet that ‘hacked into millions of devices’
The US Department of Justice has dismantled the infrastructure of what it describes as a Russian botnet made up of millions of hacked connected objects. According to US justice, RSOCKS…
Microsoft concerned about expansion of Xor DDoS botnet
In recent months, Microsoft has seen a 254% increase in the activity of Xor DDoS, a network of infected Linux machines about eight years old. The latter, as its name…
ZLoader: Is this really the end of this dangerous botnet attacking universities and hospitals?
Noellie Mautaint April 17, 2022 at 2:20 p.m. 2 © Shutterstock.com Things are moving forward on the front of the cyberwar. Microsoft announces that it has carried out several operations…
Cyclops Blink: American justice dismantles a Russian intelligence botnet
The FBI has announced that it has taken down a major botnet called Cyclops Blink. US authorities have identified several command and control servers used by the botnet operators and…
Microsoft: Here’s how the Trickbot botnet used hacked routers to communicate stealthily
Microsoft recently revealed how the Trickbot botnet used compromised MikroTik routers to stealthily communicate with infected PCs. Trickbot, a piece of malware known for stealing banking credentials and spreading ransomware,…