Cheap Android TV boxes have quietly become one of the most dangerous devices on the home network, not because of what you ...

Cryptocurrency and blockchain project databases with weak credentials and AI-generated are being hacked through deployment ...

Three men pleaded guilty to creating a "botnet" known as Mirai that was used to paralyze chunks of the internet in 2016. Paras Jha, Josiah White and Dalton Norman admitted to one count of conspiracy ...

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Western cybersecurity agencies have issued a new advisory warning of a large-scale botnet, managed by a China-based company with links to the Chinese government. The botnet is understood to consist of ...

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 ...

We’re only three weeks into 2025, and it’s already shaping up to be the year of Internet of Things-driven DDoSes. Reports are rolling in of threat actors infecting thousands of home and office routers ...

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 ...

The Justice Department today announced a court-authorized operation to disrupt a botnet affecting 200,000 devices in the United States and abroad. According to unsealed documents, the botnet, known as ...

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 ...

The RondoDox botnet has been observed exploiting the critical React2Shell flaw (CVE-2025-55182) to infect vulnerable Next.js servers with malware and cryptominers. First documented by Fortinet in July ...

Yet another Mirai botnet variant is making the rounds, this time offering distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) as-a-service by exploiting flaws in Mitel SIP phones. It also features a unique ...