In the movie The Manchurian Candidate, two soldiers are kidnapped and brainwashed into sleeper agents. Later the soldiers become unwitting assassins when activated by a handler. Sound familiar? It ...

Cybersecurity researchers have exposed a new Mirai -derived botnet that self-identifies as xlabs_v1 and targets ...

Researchers have identified an alarming new trend in DDoS attacks that target packet inspection and content filtering devices to attain enormous 6,533% amplification levels. With such an amplification ...

More than 10 million devices hooked up to the internet of things (IoT) were hacked in a Friday attack that slowed a huge swath of the internet to a crawl. The next time that happens, your device could ...

Netlab, the networking security division of Chinese security firm Qihoo 360, said it discovered this week a new fledgling malware operation that is currently infecting Android devices for the purpose ...

Threat actors have discovered a way to bounce and amplify junk web traffic against Citrix ADC networking equipment to launch DDoS attacks. While details about the attackers are still unknown, victims ...

Singapore, 8 th May, 2024 - New data from Nexusguard’s DDoS Statistical Trends Report 2024 reveals bad actors are shifting DDoS tactics. Computers and servers became the primary target of attacks, ...

Over 100,000 devices have a misconfigured service called multicast DNS that accepts requests from the Internet and can potentially be abused to amplify distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

How big Kimwolf really is Researchers tracking Kimwolf estimate that the botnet has already compromised around 1.8 million Android devices, a scale that instantly places it among the largest active ...

A new DDoS botnet propagates via the Android Debug Bridge and uses Tor to hide its activity. Researchers are warning a new botnet is recycling the Mirai malware framework and is now targeting Android ...

A quickly expanding botnet called Chaos is targeting and infecting Windows and Linux devices to use them for cryptomining and launching DDoS attacks. This Go-based malware can also infect various ...

Attackers are taking advantage of home routers and other devices that respond to UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) requests over the Internet in order to amplify distributed denial-of-service attacks. A ...