In 2024 alone, botnets accounted for 29% of all observed malware, reclaiming their spot at the top of the cyberthreat landscape, according to ForeScout Technologies Inc.’s latest analysis of 900 ...

Cyble threat intelligence researchers have identified a sophisticated Linux botnet built for cryptocurrency mining, remote command execution, and dozens of DDoS attack types. Cyble Research and ...

XMRogue would let defenders submit invalid mining job results from infected computers to get a proxy server banned from the botnet. For years, CSOs have been fighting botnets that are stealing ...

Researchers have revealed two new ways to shut down cryptocurrency mining botnets. The methods exploit weaknesses in common mining protocols and pool policies. The first technique sends repeated ...

Palo Alto Networks has observed a spike in Prometei activity since March 2025, pointing to a resurgence of the botnet. An updated variant of the Prometei malware is making the rounds, and activity ...

Separate spinoffs of the infamous Mirai botnet are responsible for a fresh wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks globally. One is exploiting specific vulnerabilities in Internet of ...

A newly discovered botnet of 13,000 MikroTik devices uses a misconfiguration in domain name server records to bypass email protections and deliver malware by spoofing roughly 20,000 web domains. The ...

According to security analysis, the Gayfemboy botnet, based on the notorious Mirai malware, is currently spreading around the world. Researchers from Chainxin X Lab found that cybercriminals have been ...

A new report out today from Fortinet Inc.’s FortiGuard Labs details the activities of two different botnets observed through October and November that are being spread through vulnerabilities in ...

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