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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 ...
CSOonline

New Mirai botnet fires off DDoS attacks via compromised Mitel phones, notifies command & control when detected

Aquabotv3 is actively exploiting a known vulnerability in Mitel devices to include them in its botnet, according to Akamai's Security Intelligence and Response Team. A third variant of the Mirai-based ...

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 ...

Criminals hijack devices to create never-before-seen cyber weapon

Criminals hijack thousands of devices to create never-before-seen cyber weapon - Victims of the KadNap botnet are spread ...
PC Magazine

FBI: That Cheap Android TV Box You Bought Online Might Be Hosting Malware

FBI: That Cheap Android TV Box You Bought Online Might Be Hosting Malware The 'Badbox 2.0' malware campaign is targeting IoT devices like streaming boxes and projectors to create a botnet. Be on the ...
Dark Reading

RondoDox Botnet Expands Scope With React2Shell Exploitation

The threat actors behind the RondoDox botnet are among the latest attackers to take advantage of the React2Shell flaw, weaponizing the vulnerability as an initial access vector to deploy other ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bleeping Computer

MikroTik botnet uses misconfigured SPF DNS records to spread malware

A newly discovered botnet of 13,000 MikroTik devices uses a misconfiguration in domain name server records to bypass email protections and deliver malware by spoofing roughly 20,000 web domains. The ...
Bleeping Computer

Chinese botnet infects 260,000 SOHO routers, IP cameras with malware

The FBI and cybersecurity researchers have disrupted a massive Chinese botnet called “Raptor Train” that infected over 260,000 networking devices to target critical infrastructure in the US and in ...