IoT botnet
Gafgyt Botnet: Weak SSH Passwords Targeted For GPU Mining
A new variant of the Gafgy botnet has recently been discovered by cybersecurity researchers. As per media reports, the botnet appears to be machines with weak SSH passwords for mining crypto. In ...
‘Total Bollocks’ — No, Your Toothbrush isn’t DDoS’ing
PR FAIL: Were 3 million toothbrushes hacked into a botnet? Or does a Fortinet spokeschild have egg on his face? ...
NoaBot Pwns Hundreds of SSH Servers as Crypto Miners
‘hi’ — Mirai-based botnet exploits weak authentication to mine fake money ...
IoT Botnets: Perspectives from a Residential Router
Residential routers face risks from the propagation of IoT botnets and the problem devices present once they are infected. The post IoT Botnets: Perspectives from a Residential Router appeared first on Radware ...
SSH-Targeting Golang Bots Becoming the New Norm
Bitdefender researchers have recently found an increasing number of SSH-targeting bots written in Golang. Traditionally, popular malware is written in C, C++ and Perl, and it’s rare that we see attackers creating ...
Radware Threat Researchers Live: DDoS & IoT Botnets
In the second edition of ‘Researchers Talk Live,’ Daniel Smith and Pascal Geenens geek out on what's current in DDoS and IoT Botnets. The post Radware Threat Researchers Live: DDoS & IoT ...
UK Enterprises to Compete for £70m in Government Cybersecurity Challenge
After 40 percent of UK businesses reported data breaches or security incidents in the past year, the government wants to completely “design out” complex cyber risks and attacks. To achieve this and ...
Bandwidth Security Is Critical in Wake of Rogue IoT Botnets Targeting Telecom Sector
Bandwidth security against rogue IoT botnets could be the next critical investment priority for the telecommunications sector after a report from NOKIA found that 78 percent of network-based malware detection in CSP ...
Two Dozen Click Fraud Apps Found in Google Play
Attackers managed to pass Google’s defenses and place 22 Android apps on Google Play that engaged in sophisticated advertising click fraud when installed on users’ phones. The majority of the apps were ...
Adobe Patches Zero-Day Flaw in Flash Player
Adobe Systems fixed a critical vulnerability in Flash Player that was publicly disclosed by a researcher earlier this month. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-15981, is a type confusion issue that can lead ...
