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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....
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....
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....
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....
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Tech support scams, stolen data, and botnets
December 15, 2016 - NOTE: thanks to the Wack0lian for research contributions It would seem that scams as a service are a growth business...