botnets
AI Data Poisoning
Cloudflare has a new feature—available to free users as well—that uses AI to generate random pages to feed to AI web crawlers: Instead of simply blocking bots, Cloudflare’s new system lures them ...
The Justice Department Took Down the 911 S5 Botnet
The US Justice Department has dismantled an enormous botnet: According to an indictment unsealed on May 24, from 2014 through July 2022, Wang and others are alleged to have created and disseminated ...
Ukrainian REvil Hacker Gets 13-Year Sentence Plus $16M Fine
In a significant victory against cybercrime, the Ukrainian REvil hacker has been sentenced to over 13 years in prison and ordered to pay a hefty fine of $16 million for orchestrating thousands ...
FBI Warns: Ubiquiti EdgeRouter is STILL Not Secure
GRU APT28 is back again: Fancy Bear still hacking ubiquitous gear, despite patch availability ...
‘Total Bollocks’ — No, Your Toothbrush isn’t DDoS’ing
PR FAIL: Were 3 million toothbrushes hacked into a botnet? Or does a Fortinet spokeschild have egg on his face? ...
Hackers Building AndroxGh0st Botnet to Target AWS, O365, Feds Warn
The bad actors behind the Androxgh0st malware are building a botnet they can use to identify victims and exploit vulnerable networks to steal confidential information from such high-profile cloud applications as Amazon ...
NoaBot Pwns Hundreds of SSH Servers as Crypto Miners
‘hi’ — Mirai-based botnet exploits weak authentication to mine fake money ...
Why Botnets Persist: How to Stop Direct-Path DDoS Attacks
No one is immune from direct-path DDoS attacks, but there are ways to mitigate the damage before it occurs ...
The FBI’s Qakbot Takedown, QR Code Phishing Attacks, Dox Anyone in America for $15
In this episode we discuss the FBI’s remarkable takedown of the Qakbot botnet, a saga involving ransomware, cryptocurrency, and the FBI pushing an uninstaller to thousands of victim PCs. Next, we explore ...
