Botnet of more than 17 million devices dismantled
The botnet was reportedly tied to a Russia-based residential proxy network.
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The botnet was reportedly tied to a Russia-based residential proxy network.
A new two-stage malware family called RustDuck is hijacking home routers, IP cameras, Android boxes, and poorly secured servers, then stitching them into a network built to knock w...
Other residential proxy brands may rely on the same network
A newly identified botnet, named Void, is leveraging Ethereum smart contracts to build a resilient, hard-to-disrupt command-and-control (C2) infrastructure, marking a continued evo...
Hosting provider pulled the plug after police traced 200 servers to the Netherlands
The NetNut proxy network and the ‘Popa’ botnet are known to have infected devices with variants of Mirai DDoS botnets
Dutch authorities have announced the takedown of a botnet that enslaved millions of infected devices, including computers, tablets, smartphones, and IoT devices, to carry out malic...
The Cybercrime Team of the Police Unit The Hague, together with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), says it has successfully dismantled a large Asocks botnet and taken it of...
A notable operational pivot by the GRU-linked intrusion set APT28 (aka Fancy Bear, Sofacy, Forest Blizzard, Pawn Storm) that combines the MooBot botnet and compromised EdgeRouters...
Google has significantly degraded NetNut, one of the biggest networks that turns home devices into rented relays for other people's traffic. Working with the FBI, Lumen, and other...
A campaign of 148 npm packages disguised as student web proxies turned visitors' browsers into a distributed denial-of-service botnet for roughly two weeks in May, according to new...
Four compromised npm packages in the @asyncapi namespace have been observed distributing a multi-stage botnet loader, according to findings from OX Security, SafeDep, Socket, and S...
FBI and Google disrupt NetNut after domains linked to its residential proxy network are seized, exposing abuse of 2 million TVs and streaming devices worldwide.
A new cybercrime advertisement is turning heads in the security community, and for good reason. It describes a botnet that does not just infect computers, it turns them into rented...
A new malware family is turning forgotten home routers into a distributed reconnaissance and proxy network, not the DDoS botnet these devices usually end up in. QiAnXin's XLab call...
В результате операции, возглавляемой ФБР и экспертами в области кибербезопасности Google, был нейтрализован ботнет NetNut, который использовался в качестве коммерческого прокси-сер...
The underground advertisement for the so-called Mycelium Framework reads like another feature‑packed botnet sales pitch: cross‑platform payloads, encrypted C2, persistence, exploit...
Millions of low-cost, off-brand Android devices were hijacked to help criminals hide online.
A Russian-speaking threat actor tracked as “bandcampro” used Google Gemini CLI as an end-to-end operational assistant to migrate a command-and-control server, deploy a replacement...
A sophisticated new botnet family dubbed RustDuck emerged in early 2026, leveraging a two-stage Loader and Core architecture to compromise IoT devices, routers, and enterprise serv...
Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a "resurgence and expansion" of JDY, a covert network associated with China-nexus state-sponsored threat actors. "The JDY botnet comprises...
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: US and Canadian authorities arrest 23-year-old Jacob Butler, known online as “Dort”, for allegedly operating the Kimwolf DDoS botnet, which infect...
привет, Хабр! на днях по новостным лентам пронеслась тревожная весть: российский сегмент интернета столкнулся с беспрецедентной DDoS-атакой мощностью в 2,56 тбит/с при интенсивност...
A Russian-speaking threat actor known as "bandcampro" used Google's open-source Gemini CLI AI tool as a hacking agent and to operate a small-scale botnet. [...]
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