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

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

Since at least 2021, the federal government says, the "Rapper Bot" DDoS-for-hire botnet launched "large-scale cyber attacks." Now, an Oregon man—Ethan Foltz, 22—has been accused of being behind the ...

A 22-year-old Oregon man has been arrested on suspicion of operating “Rapper Bot,” a massive botnet used to power a service for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against targets — ...

Modern security demands both the scale and performance of WAAP and the precision and lifecycle coverage of dedicated API ...

Many will be familiar with the term bot, short for web-robot. Bots are essential for effective operation of the web: web-crawlers are a type of bot, automatically trawling sites looking for updates ...

Zemra, a new crimeware bot that shares traits with the banking Trojans Zeus and SpyEye has been making the rounds lately, according to a recent post on Symantec’s Security Response blog. Zemra, a new ...

A 22-year-old Ethan Foltz was recently arrested He's being suspected of building, and renting, an enormous DDoS-for-hire botnet called Rapper Bot Since the arrest, there were no reports of new Rapper ...

Knowing the inner workings of botnets and their attack styles can help you formulate a defense -- or outlast an attack My friends Paul and Robin Laudanski at CastleCops have been under a huge DDoS ...

Attackers are exploiting a vulnerability in distributed search engine software Elasticsearch to install DDoS malware on Amazon and possibly other cloud servers. Elasticsearch is an increasingly ...

The multi-talented bot, which can carry out DDoS via either HTTP or UDP flood attacks, was discovered by Zoltan Balazs, CTO at MRG Effitas, and shared with Kaspersky Lab for analysis. The firm ...

According to Gcore, in 2022, the number and volume of DDoS attacks will roughly double compared to 2021. The average attack power will grow from 150–300 Gbps to 500–700 Gbps. Both ordinary users and ...