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BADBOX 2.0 Botnet alert: FBI warns smart TVs, digital device may have exploit

Cyber criminals are exploiting IoT devices in homes to create a botnet called BADBOX 2.0, enabling illegal online activities. Most compromised devices are manufactured in China and become infected ...
Forbes

How Not To Become A Botnet Victim: A Practical Guide For Everyone

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alex Vakulov is a cybersecurity expert focused on consumer security. Meet Sarah. She is a non-tech-savvy professional juggling ...
Nextgov

Feds make arrest in decade-long botnet probe

The Justice Department unsealed an indictment against Peter Yuryevich Levashov, an accused computer scammer who is charged with running spam botnets for more than a decade. Levashov was arrested in ...

Another top security camera maker is seeing devices hijacked into botnet

A vulnerability in an old camera is being used to create a botnet The camera is no longer supported by its vendor and will ...
PC Magazine

US Accuses Chinese Company of Running Botnet Via Hijacked Routers, IoT Devices

According to Wednesday’s advisory, Integrity Technology Group has been running the botnet since mid-2021 by routinely infecting vulnerable internet-connected devices. To do so, the company has ...
CSOonline

‘Win-DDoS’: Researchers unveil botnet technique exploiting Windows domain controllers

SafeBreach researchers demonstrate how attackers can crash Windows domain controllers and build a botnet using unauthenticated RPC and LDAP vulnerabilities. At DEF CON 33, security researchers ...
Jezebel

Why it's so easy to create huge botnets like the one that took down the Internet on Friday

Technology is hard. So companies try to make it as easy as possible. But sometimes their attempts to make it easy for consumers mean making it easy for hackers, ultimately resulting in consumers’ ...
SiliconANGLE

New Mirai variant ‘Murdoc_Botnet’ targets AVTECH cameras and Huawei routers

Researchers at cybersecurity software provider Qualys Inc. are warning of a new Mirai botnet variant that’s being used to target vulnerabilities in AVTECH Cameras and Huawei HG523 routers. The variant ...
Krebs on Security

Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P

Kimwolf is a botnet that surfaced in late 2025 and quickly infected millions of systems, turning poorly secured IoT devices like TV streaming boxes, digital picture frames and routers into relays for ...

Massive 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack breaks records: How the 'apex' of botnets could be weaponizing your home devices

Massive 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack breaks records: How the 'apex' of botnets could be weaponizing your home devices ...
Dark Reading

Various Botnets Pummel Year-Old TP-Link Flaw in IoT Attacks

A number of botnets are pummeling a nearly year-old command-injection vulnerability in TP-Link routers to compromise the devices for IoT-driven distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. There ...