Hackers resurrect 90s IRC tricks with SSHStalker, using old exploits to quietly compromise thousands of Linux servers globally ...

A newly discovered botnet is compromising poorly-protected Linux servers by brute-forcing weak SSH password login ...

Aisuru smashed previous records with a 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack. It appeared to have focused on telecommunications providers. Seemingly safe and small devices can be weaponized for massive cyberattacks.

Cloudflare has sent us a copy of its quarterly DDoS threat report, and it makes for hair-raising reading. The gigantic CDN provider claims that it recorded "an unprecedented bombardment" from a botnet ...

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The cybercriminals in control of Kimwolf — a disruptive botnet that has infected more than 2 million devices — recently shared a screenshot indicating they’d compromised the control panel for Badbox 2 ...

Many of you probably unwrapped a smart device this Christmas. Operated via Wi-Fi, it cooks, cleans, heats, cools, etc. But did you know it could also be moonlighting as a bot? The likelihood is ...

A botnet known as GoBruteforcer has been actively targeting Linux servers exposed to the internet, using large-scale brute-force attacks against common services such as FTP, MySQL, PostgreSQL and ...

Congressional Democrats are questioning the legality of President Donald Trump's removal of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Republicans cheered Trump's military action in Venezuela, though ...

In December, the botnet’s operators focused on weaponizing the flaw to compromise vulnerable Next.js servers. The targeted security defect, tracked as CVE-2025-55182, impacts systems relying on ...

It seems like a fair assessment to state that the many ‘AI’ features that Microsoft added to Windows 11 are at least somewhat controversial. Unsurprisingly, this has led many to wonder about disabling ...

Time and again, hackers infect other people’s computers as well as routers or other network devices in order to misuse them for their botnet. What’s a botnet, you ask? Simply put, it’s a collection of ...