Botnets
Discover expert analysis on botnets with news, features and insights from the team at IT Pro.
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Mirai now exploiting Hadoop flaw to target Linux serversNews 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 botnetsNews 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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Duo unravels three-tiered ‘crypto-giveaway’ botnetNews Researchers used a machine learning model to weed through 88 million Twitter accounts for bots and spammers
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published
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IoT revenue opportunity to exceed $1 trillion by 2025News More than half of IoT devices will be deployed in enterprises as the market shifts away from connectivity
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published
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Infected Android apps back on Google Play after name changeNews Symantec discovers seven malicious apps sneaked back onto Google Play with different names
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet Published
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Github weathers world's largest DDoS attackNews The site had just ten minutes of downtime
By Adam Shepherd Published
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Researchers warn of nine CVEs in Dell EMC's Isilon platformNews The company's OneFS storage OS is vulnerable to cross-site request forgeries and privilege escalation
By Adam Shepherd Published
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2017's biggest security horror storiesIn-depth The year's worst security incidents we'd hate to see again in 2018
By Jane McCallion Published
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Task force silences massive Andromeda botnetNews The botnet is thought to have spewed malware from two million infected devices
By Dale Walker Published
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DDoS attacks blamed on 70,000-strong Android botnetNews Security researchers discover Mirai-style 'WireX' botnet
By Adam Shepherd Published
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US college hit by 54-hour Mirai DDoS attackNews New Mirai variant unleashed a 30,000 RPS storm higher education institution
By Jane McCallion Published
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FTC: D-Link IoT devices put thousands of customers at riskNews D-Link calls Federal Trade Commission's claims "vague and unsubstantiated"
By Dale Walker Published
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