Botnets
Discover expert analysis on botnets with news, features and insights from the team at IT Pro.
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What is a botnet?In-depth An in-depth look at the evolution of this highly effective method of cyber crime
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Botnet targets vulnerable Microsoft Exchange serversNews Cryptocurrency-mining botnet Prometei targeting same flaws as Hafnium attacks
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Purple Fox malware can now spread between Windows devicesNews 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 botnetNews 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 onlineNews 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 routersNews 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 anythingNews 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 hourNews 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 timeNews 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 systemsNews 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 businessesNews 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 telcoNews 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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