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Up-And-Coming Botnet Uses Same Malware Kit As Defunct Mariposa

A financial-fraud botnet built with the same malware kit used in the now-defunct Mariposa botnet remains active after arrests this month of two Eastern European men who allegedly ran it. Researchers ...

Nearly 2 million Android devices hijacked by massive new botnet — how to see if yours are infected

On October 30th, Cloudfare data identified a strange website that briefly surpassed Google as the most popular website ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Kimwolf DDoS botnet already grabbed 1.8M devices. What we know

Kimwolf is the latest reminder that the most dangerous botnets now grow quietly inside everyday consumer electronics.
The Hacker News

Kimwolf Botnet Hijacks 1.8 Million Android TVs, Launches Large-Scale DDoS Attacks

Kimwolf botnet infected 1.8 million Android TV devices and issued 1.7 billion DDoS commands, using ENS to hide its control ...
SecurityWeek

‘Kimwolf’ Android Botnet Ensnares 1.8 Million Devices

Consisting of over 1.8 million infected devices, the Kimwolf Android Botnet focuses on traffic proxying, but can also launch ...
Dark Reading

Mylobot Botnet & Khalesi Malware Deliver One-Two Security Punch

Mylobot, a recently discovered botnet that can elude antivirus software and sandboxes, is now able to deliver Khalesi information stealer malware on infected machines as part of a secondary attack, ...
PC World

New botnet malware infects 1.6 million Android TV devices worldwide

Vo1d is a long-known botnet that infects Android TV devices, and security experts from XLab have now discovered a new variant that’s said to have infected over 1.6 million Android TV devices around ...
Threat Post

Qakbot Botnet Sprouts Fangs, Injects Malware into Email Threads

The ever-shifting, ever-more-powerful malware is now hijacking email threads to download malicious DLLs that inject password-stealing code into webpages, among other foul things. The Qakbot botnet is ...
Bleeping Computer

New botnet malware exploits two zero-days to infect NVRs and routers

A new Mirai-based malware botnet named 'InfectedSlurs' has been exploiting two zero-day remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities to infect routers and video recorder (NVR) devices. The malware ...
The Verge

FBI makes a massive botnet infecting more than 700,000 computers uninstall itself

“Operation Duck Hunt” targeted Qakbot malware that remotely controls computers and sets them up for other attacks, like ransomware. “Operation Duck Hunt” targeted Qakbot malware that remotely controls ...
TechRepublic

Androxgh0st Malware Botnet Steals AWS, Microsoft Credentials and More

The Androxgh0st malware botnet is used for victim identification and exploitation in targeted networks, as well as credentials collection. Read the FBI/CISA's tips for protecting against this malware ...
Bleeping Computer

AVrecon malware infects 70,000 Linux routers to build botnet

Since at least May 2021, stealthy Linux malware called AVrecon was used to infect over 70,000 Linux-based small office/home office (SOHO) routers and add them to a botnet designed to steal bandwidth ...