The Mirai malware has become notorious for recruiting Internet of Things devices to form botnets that have launched some of the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks recorded to date.

Botnets are increasingly making up more and more of the malware traffic found on service provider networks, with cybercriminals using these Internet of Things bots for a range of malicious schemes, ...

A new botnet has been slowly growing over the past year by brute-forcing SSH logins and deploying cryptomining malware on Linux servers. The main bot client is based on the old Mirai worm whose source ...

It’s safe to say that the last few years have been eventful when it comes to the Internet of Things (IoT) threat landscape, with new waves of distributed denial of service (DDoS) bots emerging with ...

Cybersecurity researchers from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have discovered a campaign exploiting multiple vulnerabilities in D-Link routers to spread botnet malware. A botnet is a network of ...

Have you ever been so affronted by something you read online, that you metaphorically wished you could vanquish the offending website with a botnet army 500,000 units strong? Well now there’s an app ...

The Mirai botnet -- used for so many Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) attacks -- has a new variant that security company Fortinet has seen in the wild. What company researchers are calling the ...

An Akamai researcher has discovered an attempt to use Log4j vulnerabilities in ZyXEL networking devices to "infect and assist in the proliferation of malware used by the Mirai botnet." Larry ...