#botnet

Federal prosecutors in the U.S. have charged two Sudanese brothers with running a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet for hire that conducted a record 35,000 DDoS attacks in a single year, including those that targeted Microsoft's services in June 2023. The attacks, which were facilitated by Anonymous Sudan's "powerful DDoS tool," singled out critical infrastructure, corporate networks,

This Metasploit module exploits two vulnerabilities in the BYOB (Build Your Own Botnet) web GUI. It leverages an unauthenticated arbitrary file write that allows modification of the SQLite database, adding a new admin user. It also uses an authenticated command injection in the payload generation page. These vulnerabilities remain unpatched.

NCC Group experts share details of how they exploited critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Phoenix Contact EV chargers (electric…

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Game Freak’s “Teraleak” appears to expose nearly 1 terabyte of sensitive Pokémon data, including source code, cancelled games,…

Cybersecurity security researchers are warning about an unpatched vulnerability in Nice Linear eMerge E3 access controller systems that could allow for the execution of arbitrary operating system (OS) commands. The flaw, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-9441, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0, according to VulnCheck. "A vulnerability in the Nortek Linear eMerge E3 allows

Among those affected by all this monkeying around with DDoS in September were some 4,000 organizations in the US.

China’s Salt Typhoon hacked AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen, compromising wiretap systems used in criminal investigations. The breach, linked…

Critical security vulnerabilities exposed in DrayTek Vigor routers: Discover how to protect your network from these serious flaws.…

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new botnet malware family called Gorilla (aka GorillaBot) that is a variant of the leaked Mirai botnet source code. Cybersecurity firm NSFOCUS, which identified the activity last month, said the botnet "issued over 300,000 attack commands, with a shocking attack density" between September 4 and September 27, 2024. No less than 20,000 commands designed