Doug Bonderud is an award-winning writer capable of bridging the gap between complex and conversational across technology, innovation and the human condition. The era of bots has arrived. According to ...
Cybersecurity researchers have exposed a new Mirai -derived botnet that self-identifies as xlabs_v1 and targets ...
Security researchers from Romanian antivirus vendor Bitdefender have discovered a botnet that infects home routers and other Internet of Things (IoT) smart devices and then attempts to mine for ...
Mozi’s spike comes amid a huge increase in overall IoT botnet activity. The Mozi botnet, a peer-2-peer (P2P) malware known previously for taking over Netgear, D-Link and Huawei routers, has swollen in ...
Internet of Things devices are being hit with increasingly sophisticated botnet attacks that aim to exploit vulnerabilities and that target the devices sometimes within minutes of coming online, ...
A new botnet is actively targeting IoT devices using payloads compiled for a dozen CPU architectures and uses them to launch several types of DDoS and to spread various types of malware. The Dark ...
Researchers at CenturyLink have found a new malware family that combines code from at least three other previously known malware to target Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Devices infected with "Mozi ...
The global IoT ecosystem now exceeds 21.1 billion devices, and recent botnet attacks like Aisuru and xlabs_v1 show how ...
The increased proliferation of IoT devices paved the way for the rise of IoT botnets that amplifies DDoS attacks today. This is a dangerous warning that the possibility of a sophisticated DDoS attack ...