Botnets
Discover expert analysis on botnets with news, features and insights from the team at IT Pro.
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Purple Fox malware can now spread between Windows devices
News The rootkit has added self-propagating capabilities to its arsenal with roughly 100,000 machines already infected
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published
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Europol takes down 'dangerous' Emotet botnet
News Experts urge businesses to stay vigilant as it's unlikely Emotet is down for good
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published
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CMS platforms succumb to KashmirBlack botnet as businesses rush online
News Businesses warned to prioritise security as coronavirus forces many to ply their trade digitally
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published
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IoT botnet exploiting two zero-day flaws in Tenda routers
News The Ttint botnet is based heavily on the Mirai malware and includes 12 protocols for remote access
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published
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IoT botnets are on the rise and 5G isn’t helping anything
News Botnets are more common and coming in more diverse strains than ever before
By Connor Jones Published
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Botnet spreads 30,000 sextortion emails in an hour
News Recipients ordered to pay $800 in Bitcoin under threat of compromising photos leaking online
By Bobby Hellard Published
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Equifax named the most Googled data breach of all time
News 2014's Heartbleed takes the top spot for cyber threat searches
By Connor Jones Published
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GoldBrute brute force botnet targeting Windows RDP systems
News More than 1.5 million unique IP addresses have been compromised with the figure only expected to rise
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published
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Mirai variant is back on the hunt for businesses
News Security researchers have found a new variant of the malicious botnet that grounded some of the world's biggest tech companies
By Connor Jones Published
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Briton sentenced for huge cyber attack on Liberian telco
News Operating out of Cyprus, this hacker-for-hire knocked the entire country's internet offline - thought to be world first
By Connor Jones Published
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Mirai now exploiting Hadoop flaw to target Linux servers
News Malware used to take half the internet offline is being used to build powerful botnets with just a handful of compromised servers
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published
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Growing 'anti-vaxx' online debate pinned on Russian botnets
News Sophisticated bots and trolls are ‘playing both sides’ of the debate to spread public health myths
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published
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