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 ...

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 ...

Social engineering attacks are on the rise. This means state and local agencies should invest in user awareness training, and endpoint detection and response tools, then focus on securing identities ...