More than half a million machines have been hijacked by a cryptocurrency miner botnet, forcing them to mine nearly 9,000 monero tokens (worth roughly $3.6 million), according to a new report. The ...
Since May 2018, a malware botnet has been launching brute-force attacks against Microsoft SQL (MSSQL) databases to take over admin accounts and then install cryptocurrency mining scripts on the ...
When hackers corral infected computers into a botnet, they take special care to ensure they don’t lose control of the server that sends commands and updates to the compromised devices. The precautions ...
A malicious botnet has been targeting Microsoft SQL database servers to mine cryptocurrency for two years, according to a new report. The attack brute-forces passwords in order to access servers with ...
Researchers at Guardicore Labs have discovered a sophisticated peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet actively targeting SSH servers worldwide since at least January 2020. The botnet, dubbed FritzFrog, has been ...
Earlier this week, Microsoft Defender for IoT researchers discovered malicious downloads that affect Windows and Linux devices. These downloads, among other propagation methods, ensnare local devices ...