The SSHStalker Linux botnet has ensnared 7,000 systems, deploying various scanners and malware, an IRC bot, and multiple kernel exploits.

A relatively new Mirai-based botnet has been growing in sophistication and is now leveraging zero-day exploits for security flaws in industrial routers and smart home devices. Exploitation of ...

Attackers quickly turn around real-world attacks using proof-of-concept code, taking only days to weeks to create workable exploits from published research, according to six months of data collected ...

Hackers resurrect 90s IRC tricks with SSHStalker, using old exploits to quietly compromise thousands of Linux servers ...

Researchers uncover SSHStalker, an IRC botnet exploiting legacy Linux flaws and SSH servers to build persistent covert access.

A malware botnet is exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in end-of-life GeoVision devices to compromise and recruit them for likely DDoS or cryptomining attacks. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2024-11120 ...

FortiGuard Labs, the research arm of security firm Fortinet, has uncovered a significant evolution in the IZ1H9 Mirai-based DDoS campaign. Discovered in September and described in an advisory ...

Popular for monitoring Docker containers, Wazuh is being exploited by two Mirai botnet variants — one of which aligns closely with researchers’ previously released proof-of-concept attack against the ...