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Enlarge / Fiber optic cables, center, and copper Ethernet cables feed into switches inside a communications room at an office in London, U.K., on Monday, May 21, 2018. (credit: Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Over nine months ago, three men pleaded guilty to creating and operating the Mirai and Clickfraud botnets. However, on Tuesday, after […]
A major botnet, an Equifax indictment, and more of the week’s top security news. https://media.wired.com/photos/5aac59bca54678516963cb74/master/pass/china_botnet_malware.jpg
A Dasan Networks router similar to this one is under active exploit by the potent Satori botnet. (credit: Dasan Networks) A fast-moving botnet that turns routers, cameras, and other types of Internet-connected devices into potent tools for theft and destruction has resurfaced again, this time by exploiting a critical vulnerability that gives attackers control over […]
Enlarge (credit: Check Point Software) In 2016, researchers uncovered a botnet that turned infected Android phones into covert listening posts that could siphon sensitive data out of protected networks. Google at the time said it removed the 400 Google Play apps that installed the malicious botnet code and took other, unspecified “necessary actions” to protect […]
The DDoS attack that crippled the internet last fall wasn’t the work of a nation-state. It was three college kids working a *Minecraft* hustle. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a309e696be0701f2d320ea2/master/pass/Minecraft_3.jpg Feed: All Latest
Enlarge (credit: Investigative Committee of Belarus) The mastermind behind some of the world’s biggest and longest-running botnets has been jailed and his vast criminal infrastructure taken down, in part because of a careless operational security blunder that allowed authorities to identify his anonymous online persona. Officials from the Republic of Belarus reported Monday they detained […]
Attackers have used an advanced new strain of the Mirai Internet-of-things malware to quietly amass an army of 100,000 home routers that could be used at any moment to wage Internet-paralyzing attacks, a researcher warned Monday. Botnet operators have been regularly releasing new versions of Mirai since the source code was openly published 14 months […]
(credit: Johnny Ashburn) Eight days have passed since researchers first warned of a new, potentially Internet-paralyzing botnet made up of cameras, routers, and other so-called Internet-of-things devices. There are good reasons for concern that Reaper, as the botnet has been dubbed, could pose as big a threat as Mirai, the mass IoT infection that last […]
Building on the devastating Mirai botnet that took major sites offline a year ago, Reaper has some scary new tricks. https://media.wired.com/photos/59ea6cf8ce22fd0cca3c52bb/master/pass/Botnet-FINAL-843353850.jpg Feed: All Latest
Enlarge (credit: portal gda) Google has booted eight Android apps from its Play marketplace, even though the apps have been downloaded as many as 2.6 million times. The industry giant did so after researchers found that the apps add devices to a botnet and can perform denial-of-service attacks or other malicious actions. The stated purpose […]
