The first half of 2025 marked another MAJOR escalation in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) activity, with new NetScout research documenting more than eight million attacks worldwide in these six ...

The world’s largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices hosted on U.S. Internet providers like AT&T, Comcast and ...

The Aisuru/Kimwolf botnet launched a new massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 31.4 Tbps and 200 million requests per second, setting a new record. The attack was part of ...

A cybercriminal group is exploiting vulnerabilities in Internet of Things (IoT) devices and then turning a tidy profit by putting them up for sale on a residential proxy marketplace, where they can be ...

A newly discovered botnet is compromising poorly-protected Linux servers by brute-forcing weak SSH password login authentication. Researchers at Canada-based Flare Systems, who discovered the botnet, ...

A hot potato: The resurgence of BadBox 2.0 poses new risks that consumers should be aware of. As unregulated, low-cost IoT devices become increasingly common in households around the world, it's ...

The FBI and cybersecurity researchers have disrupted a massive Chinese botnet called “Raptor Train” that infected over 260,000 networking devices to target critical infrastructure in the US and in ...

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 ...