Massive botnet that appeared overnight is delivering record-size DDoSes - A newly discovered network botnet comprising an estimated 30,000 webcams a... - https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/massive-botnet-that-appeared-overnight-is-delivering-record-size-ddoses/ #distributeddenialofserviceattacks #internetofthings #uncategorized #ddosattacks #security #botnets #biz&it

13,000 MikroTik Routers Hijacked by Botnet for Malspam and Cyberattacks https://thehackernews.com/2025/01/13000-mikrotik-routers-hijacked-by.html

Thousands of hacked TP-Link routers used in years-long account takeover attacks - Hackers working on behalf of the Chinese government are using a botnet of ... - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/11/microsoft-warns-of-8000-strong-botnet-used-in-password-spraying-attacks/ #passwordspraying #microsoft #security #botnets #tp-link #biz&it

Cyber threats are increasingly using #cloud services for C2 operations.

The @FortiGuardLabs team has been monitoring #botnets abusing cloud services to enhance their malicious capabilities and distribute #malware payloads. Learn more https://ftnt.net/61108glrhu

US sanctions operators of “free VPN” that routed crime traffic through user PCs - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images)

The US Treasury Department has ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2027288 #residentialproxyservices #treasurydepartment #security #botnets #biz&it

Hacker free-for-all fights for control of home and office routers everywhere - Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica)

Cybercriminals ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2021233 #security #botnets #malware #routers #biz&it

Thousands of phones and routers swept into proxy service, unbeknownst to users - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images)

Crooks are working overtime to ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2012682 #anonymousproxy #security #android #botnets #routers #biz⁢ #phones

Attack wrangles thousands of web users into a password-cracking botnet - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images)

Attackers have transformed hund... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2008817 #passwordcracking #passwords #security #websites #botnets #biz&it

About 3 million smart #toothbrushes have been infected by #hackers & enslaved into #botnets

The toothbrushes were used in a #DDoS attack on a Swiss company’s website. The firm’s site collapsed under the strain of the attack, reportedly resulting in the loss of millions of Euros of business.

In this particular case, the toothbrush botnet was thought to have been vulnerable due to its Java-based OS

https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/three-million-malware-infected-smart-toothbrushes-used-in-swiss-ddos-attacks-botnet-causes-millions-of-euros-in-damages

Linux devices are under attack by a never-before-seen worm - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images)

For the past year, previously u... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1994946 #internetofthings #security #botnets #biz⁢ #botnet #mirai

​ And we’re on Mastodon!

If you’re new to The Spamhaus Project, check out our bio above ​

Ultimately, we’re here to build a community. A community of like-minded individuals, who want to make the internet a safer place. On Mastodon, we’ll be sharing latest threat intelligence from our researchers and threat hunters, and we’d like to invite you to do the same….

Earlier this month, we launched our Threat Intel Community, giving anyone the ability to submit malicious domains, IPs, email source codes, or URLs to Spamhaus through our user-friendly portal.

If you’re curious to know more, read this blog:
https://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/821/want-to-submit-data-be-our-guest

Or visit the Threat Intel Community here:
https://submit.spamhaus.org

If you use a cheap, no-name branded Android TV box, it’s likely compromised from the factory and using your internet connection and network for all sorts of nefarious things.

#cybersecurity #malware #botnets #privacy

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/thousands-of-android-devices-come-with-unkillable-backdoor-preinstalled/amp/

RT @EC3Europol: The #GenesisMarket takedown was a #lawenforcement priority given the platform’s ability to facilitate all types of #cybercrime

1.5M bot listings
2M identities

Learn more about this unprecedented operation led by @FBI @Politie and click to discover how #botnets work

: https://n.respublicae.eu/Europol/status/1643589780456783874

Y'all remember #KmsdBot @larry has been working on? the cryptomining botnet that landed on one of our honeypots earlier this year?

Part three is live now, this time discussing attack traffic. The highlights:

we believe it's DDoS for hire
victims are mostly in Asia, North America, and Europe
there's an interesting lack of activity in Russia and surrounding territories possibly pointing to the origins
two notable targets for FiveM and RedM, (gaming mods for GTA V and RDR2) which can tell us a lot about who its customers are.

https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/kmsdbot-part-three-examining-attack-traffic

Microsoft discovers Windows/Linux botnet used in DDoS attacks - Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica)

Microsoft resea... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1904898 #distributeddenialofserviceattacks #botnets #biz⁢ #ddos

A try at my #introduction in English...
First a few keywords: #gendarmerie (one of France's national #LawEnforcement) #forensics #malware #botnets #science.
Organizer - together with a great team of volunteers of #Botconf https://www.botconf.eu (The International Botnet & Malware Ecosystems Fighting Conference) @botconf since 2013 & #coriin (conference on incident response and digital investigations).
To know me better, you can find more info in my profile and of course by chatting with me

OK, this seems fun, so here's my #introduction

I'm a computer nerd from Germany, and finished my masters degree this year. I wrote my thesis about the monitoring of #p2p #botnets, the detection thereof using #graphtheory and how to prevent detection using a #collaborated #crawling approach. Beside that I did some #sSoftwareEngineering professionally and for fun.

I am generally interested in #malware, mostly oldschool parasitic viruses.

Sometimes I play #CTF.

Currently I'm looking to get into #InfoSec professionally or academically.

Other stuff I enjoy includes #rust, #linux, #OpenSource, #selfhosing, #NixOS, #FunctionalProgamming and #AnalogPhotograpgy

Botnet that hid for 18 months boasted some of the coolest tradecraft ever - Enlarge

It’s not the kind of security discovery that happens ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1851778 #advancedpersistentthreat #espionage #botnets #biz&it #apt