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Thousands of Asus routers are being used to fuel a massive cyber crime spreeNews Black Lotus Labs has spotted a massive botnet of Asus routers built by malware that uses a common peer networking tool
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Europol hails triple takedown with Rhadamanthys, VenomRAT, and Elysium sting operationsNews The Rhadamanthys infostealer operation is one of the latest victims of Europol's Operation Endgame, with more than a thousand servers taken down
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Seized database helps Europol snare botnet customers in ‘Operation Endgame’ follow-up stingNews Europol has detained several people believed to be involved in a botnet operation as part of a follow-up to a major takedown last year.
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Horabot campaign targeted businesses for more than two years before finally being discoveredNews The newly-discovered Horabot botnet has attacked companies in the accounting, investment, and construction sectors in particular
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Brand-new Emotet campaign socially engineers its way from detectionNews This latest resurgence follows a three-month hiatus and tricks users into re-enabling dangerous VBA macros
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Microsoft says “it’s just too difficult” to effectively disrupt ransomwareNews The company details its new approach to combatting cyber crime as the underground industry drains $6 trillion from the global economy
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Beating the bad bots: Six ways to identify and block spam trafficIn-depth Not all traffic is good. Learn how to prevent bad bots from overrunning your website
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Ukraine's vigilante IT army now has a DDoS bot to automate attacks against RussiaNews The 270,000-strong IT Army of Ukraine will now combine supporters' cloud infrastructure to strengthen the daily attacks against their invaders
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Microsoft's secure VBA macro rules already being bypassed by hackersNews Recent analysis of Emotet activity has revealed a shift away from malicious Office documents to drop malware
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Linux botnet spreads using Log4Shell flawNews The malware uses DNS tunnelling to communicate with its C2 control server
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Emotet infrastructure has almost doubled since resurgence was confirmed
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DOJ extradites Ukrainian man who used a botnet to decrypt login credentialsNews The 28-year-old allegedly sold passwords to other criminals on the dark web
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