#Botnet

Dutch authorities seized 200+ servers supporting a 17M-device botnet. Analysis of attacker infrastructure, persistence mechanisms, and the operational

Dutch police and NCSC dismantled infrastructure controlling over 17 million infected devices that powered a Russia-linked residential proxy service used for DDoS, phishing, and fraud.…

Hosting provider pulled the plug after police traced 200 servers to the Netherlands

A security investigation has revealed that Huge Networks, a Brazilian DDoS protection firm, may be...

From Dev.to - cybersecurity: Inside the Botnet: How DDoS attacks on Brazilian ISPs Were Fueled by a Supposed Anti‑DDoS Firm

Like i want to test it only for experimentation, it is not for malicious intent, at least not yet, and i do not think i would do it for malicious intent at all also it really depends on how you use that, it’s not the tool, it’s the user that defines out…

Akamai SIRT identified an active exploitation of the remotely exploitable unsafe deserialization vulnerability CVE-2025-24016 against Wazuh servers.

See details and IOCs of Akamai SIRT’s discovery of active exploitation of the command injection vulnerabilities CVE-2024-6047 and CVE-2024-11120.

Mirai continues to plague organizations. Read how the Akamai SIRT identified a new command injection vulnerability that’s targeting Edimax devices.

A vulnerability in DigiEver DS-2105 Pro DVRs is being exploited to spread a Mirai variant that has been modified to use improved encryption algorithms.

Akamai security researchers uncovered a new cryptomining campaign — NoaBot — that uses a custom Mirai botnet modified by the threat actors.

See how discovering a new botnet composed of known malware highlights a surprisingly common threat actor profile.

As part of our research into the cryptomining botnet kmsdbot, we rendered it useless.

FritzFrog is a peer-to-peer botnet, which means its command and control server is not limited to a single, centralized machine, but rather can be done from every machine in its distributed network.…

This post will focus on the weaponization of a few of the exploits only, as Sarit and Ofir documented everything else.

On August 17th, 2017, multiple Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and content providers were subject to significant attacks from a botnet dubbed WireX. The botnet is named for an anagram for one of the delimiter strings in its command and control protocol.…

The following is a select list of questions and answers that we hope will shed more light on the botnet.

An international law enforcement operation shut down a service called SocksEscort, which allegedly helped cybercriminals all over the world launch ransomware and DDoS attacks, as well as distribute child sexual abuse material.