Mozi malware botnet activity faded away in August after a mysterious unknown party sent a payload on September 27, 2023, that triggered a kill switch to deactivate all bots. Mozi is a well-known DDoS ...

A financial-fraud botnet built with the same malware kit used in the now-defunct Mariposa botnet remains active after arrests this month of two Eastern European men who allegedly ran it. Researchers ...

The FBI and cybersecurity researchers have disrupted a massive Chinese botnet called “Raptor Train” that infected over 260,000 networking devices to target critical infrastructure in the US and in ...

Cybercriminals are constantly evolving their methods, and the latest example of this is the alarming spread of the Vo1d malware botnet. This highly sophisticated malware has now infected 1,590,299 ...

Researchers at HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence team worked alongside Google, Trend Micro, The Shadowserver Foundation and others to disrupt the largest botnet of infected connected TV devices – ...

Europol and the US Department of Justice are claiming big wins against a large swath of the global cybercrime botnet infrastructure. Europol coordinated the international effort to neutralize dropper ...

Some of the most prominent malware-dropping botnets in operation today, including Bumblebee, IcedID, Pikabot, Smokeloader, SystemBC and Trickbot, have been disrupted in a coordinated law enforcement ...

The law enforcement operation has disrupted key infrastructure of the cybercrime ecosystem in what may be the largest botnet takedown of all time. In what Europol calls the largest-ever takedown ...

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 ...