Researchers at CenturyLink have found a new malware family that combines code from at least three other previously known malware to target Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Devices infected with "Mozi ...

Mozi’s spike comes amid a huge increase in overall IoT botnet activity. The Mozi botnet, a peer-2-peer (P2P) malware known previously for taking over Netgear, D-Link and Huawei routers, has swollen in ...

Security researchers at Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs have identified a new Mirai-based botnet called ShadowV2 that quietly emerged during the major AWS ...

A new botnet is actively targeting IoT devices using payloads compiled for a dozen CPU architectures and uses them to launch several types of DDoS and to spread various types of malware. The Dark ...

Shortly after ShadowV2’s test run, Azure was hit with the “largest-ever” cloud-based DDOS attack, carried out by the Aisuru botnet - which is also considered a “descendent” of Mirai and is sometimes ...

The increased proliferation of IoT devices paved the way for the rise of IoT botnets that amplifies DDoS attacks today. This is a dangerous warning that the possibility of a sophisticated DDoS attack ...

The Internet of Things is creating serious new security risks. We examine the possibilities and the dangers. Read now For almost a year, a threat actor has been using zero-day vulnerabilities to ...

A fast-evolving botnet discovered earlier this year that initially targeted Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as home routers and DVRs is now taking aim at NoSQL database servers. The Hide 'N Seek ...

With the abundance of Internet of Things (IoT) devices comes the proliferation of malware designed to exploit them. This is, of course, inevitable and, for the most part, there’s very little anyone ...

Level 3 Threat Research has noted an uptick in activity by new IoT botnets that are backed by the Mirai malware, with some attacks enlisting 100,000 individual hijacked devices. A significant number ...

Security researchers from Romanian antivirus vendor Bitdefender have discovered a botnet that infects home routers and other Internet of Things (IoT) smart devices and then attempts to mine for ...

Russian hacking group Digital Revolution has discovered the existence of a secret FSB program dubbed the “Fronton Program” that reportedly points to the creation of an IoT botnet. Reported by SC Media ...