Among the headlines in the tech press last week was news of a massive Linux botnet that was apparently crippling various sites on the Internet with 150Gbps of traffic. After reading a number of ...
A newly documented Linux botnet named SSHStalker is using the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) communication protocol for command-and-control (C2) operations. The protocol was invented in 1988, and its ...
A recently discovered botnet under active development targets Linux systems, attempting to ensnare them into an army of bots ready to steal sensitive info, installing rootkits, creating reverse shells ...
A novel Go-based Linux botnet, dubbed "PumaBot," has been observed targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices. PumaBot differentiates itself from typical botnets by remotely retrieving a list of ...
A botnet known as GoBruteforcer has been actively targeting Linux servers exposed to the internet, using large-scale brute-force attacks against common services such as FTP, MySQL, PostgreSQL and ...
Microsoft has warned that a new variant of the Sysrv botnet is targeting a critical flaw in the Spring Framework to install cryptocurrency mining malware on Linux and Windows systems. Microsoft ...