“The Russian government has recently used similar infrastructure to attack Ukrainian targets. Fortunately, we were able to disrupt this botnet before it could be used,” said Garland.

Security researchers analyzing a prolific botnet managed to accidentally kill it due to the coding equivalent of a typing error, according to Akamai. The cloud security firm detected the “KmsdBot” ...

Threat analysts have spotted a new version of the XLoader botnet malware that uses probability theory to hide its command and control servers, making it difficult to disrupt the malware's operation.

For example, unlike dpdk, eBPF can be used on one network interface together with another role. Therefore, in the future, we plan to use it more actively on CDN nodes that run on powerful 3rd ...

“Qakbot is a modular, multi-purpose botnet spread by email that has become increasingly popular with attackers as a malware delivery network, like Trickbot and Emotet,” said Andrew Brandt ...

The researchers discovered the botnet by searching the platform for the tell-tale phrase “As an AI language model …”, a response that ChatGPT sometimes uses for prompts on sensitive subjects.

Also on his watch list is Xarvester, a botnet of approximately 60,000 machines that also apparently picked up spam customers after the junk mailers had to switch providers because of McColo. And ...

NETSCOUT botnet tracking metrics showed significant growth in the first half of 2022, with the number of high-confidence botnet nodes increasing from 21,226 in Q1 to more than 488,000 in Q2.

Storm, the botnet-building Trojan horse, has come up with another twist to dupe users into infecting their PCs with malware, a security researcher said today. Longtime clients of the Russian ...

For example, in order to prevent security researchers and anti-virus applications from detecting their presence, botnet operators are moving rapidly between different banks of infected machines ...