The average life span of a command and control server in an Internet Relay Chat (IRC)-based botnet is less than two months. And these machines and their drones that make up a botnet are typically ...

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Most botnets are usually pretty obvious to detect -- the conspicuous Internet Relay Chat (IRC) connections they use are often a dead giveaway. But botnet operators are now starting to use stealthier ...

The botnet can be used to mount different kinds of attacks, including code-execution and DDoS. The hackers-for-hire group DarkCrewFriends has resurfaced and is targeting content management systems to ...

This shows one of the simplest spreading mechanisms bots use: raw executable code included in a simple field (in this case, the topic of a channel). Once connected, the victims computer would then ...

Security researchers from German antivirus vendor G Data Software have identified a botnet that is controlled by attackers from an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server running as a hidden service inside ...

The newly discovered malware infects IoT devices in tandem with the prolific Gafgyt botnet, using known security vulnerabilities. A recently developed botnet named “Simps” has emerged from the ...

A newly identified botnet is targeting unpatched applications running on top of Linux systems, Check Point security researchers said in a report today. First seen in November 2020, the FreakOut botnet ...

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Security experts say botnets are increasingly becoming more difficult to trace as criminal hackers have developed clever means to hide them. Botnets are networks of computers infected with code that ...

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When federal agents announced on November 29 that they’d indicted or convicted eight individuals accused of using botnets (networks of computers infected with Trojan horse applications) to engage in ...