Aeternum C2, a native C++ botnet loader, operates on smart contracts on the Polygon blockchain, increasing its resilience.

For the past week, the massive “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet known as Kimwolf has been disrupting The Invisible Internet Project (I2P), a decentralized, encrypted communications network designed ...

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Thousands of ASUS routers have been hacked to form a major botnet, exploiting vulnerabilities including CVE-2023-39780. Attackers installed persistent backdoors, making detection difficult. Users are ...

Google has filed a lawsuit against the operators of a what is believed to be the largest smart TV botnet in the world — BadBox 2.0. The company said in its complaint that this China-based botnet had ...

One of the largest botnets ever is gone, as an international law enforcement operation led by the U.S. Justice Department shut down the 911 S5 botnet. A botnet is a collection of compromised computers ...

A Chinese-controlled botnet of tens of thousands of unpatched internet-connected firewalls, network attached storage devices, internet-connected surveillance cameras, and small office/home office ...