Security researchers detected an attack from a massive DDoS botnet that broke previous records by a wide margin.

In a follow-up to its May 2024 botnet takedown operation codenamed Operation Endgame, Europol said it made multiple arrests.

These included IcedID, SystemBC, Pikabot, Smokeloader, Bumblebee and Trickbot. Now Europol has announced follow-on arrests of customers associated with pay-per-install botnet Smokeloader. Their names ...

A coordinated law enforcement operation has led to the seizure of several ‘Smokeloader’ botnet servers and the arrest of some of its customers. Authorities unfolded a massive operation against threat ...

GreyNoise says scannings for vulnerable TVT DVRs are spiking More than 2,500 unique IP addresses were hunting at one point A 2024 vulnerability allows threat actors to run admin commands on the device ...

In follow-up activity for Operation Endgame, law enforcement tracked down Smokeloader botnet’s customers and detained at least five individuals. During Operation Endgame last year, more than 100 ...

A few weeks later, security researchers from Akamai said they caught a new variant of the botnet targeting business phone devices built by Mitel. Sead is a seasoned freelance journalist based in ...

US President Donald Trump says he will soon announce "major" tariffs on imported pharmaceuticals, a move that could end decades of low-cost global trade in medicines. For years, most countries ...

According to the threat monitoring platform GreyNoise, which detected the exploitation activity, it's likely tied to a Mirai-based malware that seeks to incorporate the devices into its botnet.

That massive GitHub supply chain attack that spilled secrets from countless projects? It traces back to a stolen token from a SpotBugs workflow - exposed way back in November, months earlier than ...