Tag Archives: Botnet
DOJ announces guilty plea for 2016 cyberattack that broke the internet
Microsoft helped disrupt the infamous Trickbot botnet
US Cyber Command disrupted the notorious Trickbot botnet
Stealthworker Botnet Used to Perform Brute-Force Login Attempts
Cybercriminals are increasingly leveraging automation to increase the speed and scale of their attacks. Malicious bots can take advantage of simple cybersecurity errors to gain access to and control over an organization’s applications and systems. A prime example of this is the Stealthworker botnet, which was recently discovered on a security researcher’s honeypot system. The botnet leverages poor password security on Internet-facing applications to add systems to the botnet and use them to perform a distributed password guessing attack against similar systems. The Growing Threat of Password-Based Attacks Obviously, passwords have been around for a while. They are the most…
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Microsoft disrupts a botnet that infected 9 million computers
Today, Microsoft and partners from 35 countries took steps to disrupt a botnet behind the world's largest cybercrime network. The botnet, Necurs, has infected an estimated nine million computers worldwide, and it's one of the largest spam email netwo...
Researchers helped French police dismantle a crypto-mining botnet
It seems like every week there's news of a new piece of malware being used to steal user data or to take control of devices. For once, though, there's some good news in the war on intrusive software: A botnet which was spreading crypto-mining malware...
US will map and disrupt North Korean botnet
The US government plans to turn the tables on North Korea-linked hackers trying to compromise key infrastructure. The Justice Department has unveiled an initiative to map the Joanap botnet and "further disrupt" it by alerting victims. The FBI and t...
Kelihos botnet operator pleads guilty to hacking and fraud charges
The Kelihos botnet story appears to be winding to a close. Russian Peter Levashov has pleaded guilty to charges relating his operation of the botnet, including intentional damage to a computer, wire fraud, conspiracy and identity theft. He reported...
Russia denies planning botnet cyberattack on Ukraine
Russia has denied planning a major cyberattack that would disrupt soccer's Champions League final this weekend. Ukraine's SBU security service said on Wednesday that malware infecting hundreds of thousands of routers was the work of Russian hackers p...