The botnets and their related malware — one a Mirai botnet variant dubbed “FICORA” and the other a Kaiten botnet variant dubbed “CAPSAICIN” — leverage vulnerabilities in legacy D-Link ...

FortiGuard Labs reported that operators of botnets known as Ficora and Capsaicin exploit weaknesses in the home network administration protocol, a proprietary network protocol acquired by Cisco ...

The 911 S5 Botnet deployed 19 million compromised IP addresses in over 190 countries, using them to carry out bomb threats, fraud, child exploitation and more, the Justice Department said.

Image: Shutterstock An apparent Russian script kiddie is converting widespread security gaps into a powerful botnet capable of launching global-scale distributed denial-of-service attacks. See Also: A ...

A prolific botnet that spreads primarily through IoT and web application vulnerabilities has added new exploits and attack capabilities, Microsoft has warned. Zerobot (aka ZeroStresser) is a Go-based ...

While DDoS is nothing new, attacks of this magnitude are, and what’s making them possible are IoT botnets, armies of compromised Internet of Things devices doing the bidding of malicious actors.

This small script automatically performs the specified function—a DDoS attack. The number of such attacks grows every year, the volume of incoming traffic increases, and, as a result, the load ...

Researchers also note that the malware used for the botnet is hard coded to target Minecraft server version 1.12.2. In theory, though, it would work from Minecraft server version 1.7.2 to 1.18.2 ...

A new Go-based botnet malware named 'GoTrim' is scanning the web for self-hosted WordPress websites and attempting to brute force the administrator's password and take control of the site.