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Kimwolf DDoS botnet already grabbed 1.8M devices. What we know

Kimwolf is the latest reminder that the most dangerous botnets now grow quietly inside everyday consumer electronics.
Dark Reading

Up-And-Coming Botnet Uses Same Malware Kit As Defunct Mariposa

A financial-fraud botnet built with the same malware kit used in the now-defunct Mariposa botnet remains active after arrests this month of two Eastern European men who allegedly ran it. Researchers ...

Nearly 2 million Android devices hijacked by massive new botnet — how to see if yours are infected

On October 30th, Cloudfare data identified a strange website that briefly surpassed Google as the most popular website ...
The Hacker News

Kimwolf Botnet Hijacks 1.8 Million Android TVs, Launches Large-Scale DDoS Attacks

Kimwolf botnet infected 1.8 million Android TV devices and issued 1.7 billion DDoS commands, using ENS to hide its control ...
PC World

New botnet malware infects 1.6 million Android TV devices worldwide

Vo1d is a long-known botnet that infects Android TV devices, and security experts from XLab have now discovered a new variant that’s said to have infected over 1.6 million Android TV devices around ...
SecurityWeek

‘Kimwolf’ Android Botnet Ensnares 1.8 Million Devices

Consisting of over 1.8 million infected devices, the Kimwolf Android Botnet focuses on traffic proxying, but can also launch ...
Dark Reading

IoT Botnets Are Increasing Source of Malware on SP Networks

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, ...
Bleeping Computer

P2PInfect botnet activity surges 600x with stealthier malware variants

The P2PInfect botnet worm is going through a period of highly elevated activity volumes starting in late August and then picking up again in September 2023. P2PInfect was first documented by Unit 42 ...
ZDNet

The Emotet botnet is back, and it has some new tricks to spread malware

But Emotet reemerged 10 months later and has resumed campaigns. It is sending out millions of phishing emails in mass spam campaigns, with the aim of infecting devices with malware that ropes them ...
The Verge

FBI makes a massive botnet infecting more than 700,000 computers uninstall itself

“Operation Duck Hunt” targeted Qakbot malware that remotely controls computers and sets them up for other attacks, like ransomware. “Operation Duck Hunt” targeted Qakbot malware that remotely controls ...
Bleeping Computer

New botnet malware exploits two zero-days to infect NVRs and routers

A new Mirai-based malware botnet named 'InfectedSlurs' has been exploiting two zero-day remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities to infect routers and video recorder (NVR) devices. The malware ...
TechRepublic

Androxgh0st Malware Botnet Steals AWS, Microsoft Credentials and More

The Androxgh0st malware botnet is used for victim identification and exploitation in targeted networks, as well as credentials collection. Read the FBI/CISA's tips for protecting against this malware ...