Separate spinoffs of the infamous Mirai botnet are responsible for a fresh wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks globally. One is exploiting specific vulnerabilities in Internet of ...

In total, the operation went after four botnets, estimated to have infected millions of devices across the globe, including ...

In a recent blog, I wrote about about spam-spewing robots sending out spam in support of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. That spam has caused his campaign nothing but grief. Could it be a ...

Cloudflare announced that it had detected and stopped the 29.7-terabit-per-second (Tbps) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which was the biggest one ever. According to the web ...

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 ...

Aquabotv3 is actively exploiting a known vulnerability in Mitel devices to include them in its botnet, according to Akamai's Security Intelligence and Response Team. A third variant of the Mirai-based ...

A newly discovered network botnet comprising an estimated 30,000 webcams and video recorders—with the largest concentration in the US—has been delivering what is likely to be the biggest ...

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 ...