Botnet stories

Secureworks identifies malicious Qakbot ransomware campaign
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Secureworks' Counter Threat Unit researchers have long maintained active monitoring of the botnet and detected the disruption activity on August 25.

Research follows comeback of infamous botnet Emotet
Fri, 7th Jul 2023
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ESET Research has published a summary of what happened with the Emotet botnet since its comeback after a limited takedown.

Botnet detection market to be US$11 billion by 2032: FMI
Wed, 1st Mar 2023
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The adoption of botnet detection is estimated to grow with a CAGR of 33.6% from 2022 to 2032; hence measures must be undertaken to mitigate bot traffic.

Killnet software given to pro-Russian hacktivists - Radware
Thu, 2nd Feb 2023
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Radware’s threat intelligence team has released a threat advisory about the Passion Botnet, a DDoS-as-a-Service the Passion Group is offering to pro-Russian hacktivists.

Nozomi Networks Labs identifies impacts on 2022 threat landscape
Thu, 4th Aug 2022
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Nozomi Networks’ latest research finds that wiper malware, IoT botnet activity, and the Russia/Ukraine war have had the biggest impact on the threat landscape in 2022 so far.

New vulnerabilities found in Nuspire’s Q1 2022 Threat Report
Thu, 19th May 2022
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“Threat actors are quickly adjusting their tactics and these exploits tend to get industry attention, but the threat posed by older and attacks still persists."

Use of malware, botnets and exploits expands in Q1 2022
Thu, 12th May 2022
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"As zero-day attacks and other vulnerabilities among companies like Google and Microsoft come to light, threat actors are quickly adjusting their tactics."

Check Point Research reveals botnets on the rise, software vendors hit hard by cyber attacks
Wed, 26th Jan 2022
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Software vendors saw the largest year-on-year growth in 2021 at 146%, according to the 2022 Security Report from Check Point Research (CPR), the threat intelligence arm of the organisation.

Trickbot overtakes Formbook as most prevalent malware
Fri, 14th Jan 2022
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In December, Trickbot claimed the top spot as most prevalent malware, overtaking Formbook which was in first place in November 2021.

Ransom DDoS attacks surged in final quarter of 2021 - report
Wed, 12th Jan 2022
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Ransom DDoS attacks increased by 29% YoY and 175% QoQ in the last quarter 2021, according to new research from Cloudfare.

New threat intelligence from Sophos following the Apache Log4Shell vulnerability
Wed, 15th Dec 2021
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Sophos has provided new threat intelligence following the reporting of the Apache Log4Shell vulnerability.

Flubot malware, botnets, phishing round out top security issues plaguing Kiwis in Q3
Wed, 8th Dec 2021
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Malware and scams continue to plague thousands of New Zealanders, laying $3.3 million to waste in just three months.

Quantity, size and complexity of DDoS attacks on the rise - report
Wed, 17th Nov 2021
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"DDoS attacks are rampant, and the frequency doesn't seem to be slowing down."

Ransomware has increased tenfold in one year, FortiGuard Labs finds
Wed, 8th Sep 2021
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“We are seeing an increase in effective and destructive cyber attacks affecting thousands of organisations in a single incident creating an important inflection point for the war on cyber crime."

IoT botnets: Perspectives from a residential router
Tue, 23rd Mar 2021
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Surprisingly, a vast volume of malicious traffic can reach a residential device, writes Radware head of research Daniel Smith.

Cybercriminals leverage remote desktop protocol to brute force attacks
Tue, 9th Feb 2021
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remote desktop services
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) attacks surged during 2020, and their severity should not be underestimated.

A brief history of cyber-threats — from 2000 to 2020
Tue, 12th Jan 2021
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Many significant cybersecurity events have occurred since the year 2000 — not every one of them ‘firsts’, but all of them correlating with a change in security behaviour or protection.

2020's nastiest malware revealed
Wed, 28th Oct 2020
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"Cybercriminals are relying on same old tricks to secure their financial treats, because they continue to be successful."

Revealed: Imperva publishes research on decade old botnet, responsible for millions of attacks
Tue, 27th Oct 2020
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Imperva Research Labs has revealed findings of a six-month intensive investigation into a botnet that has been exploiting CMS vulnerabilities.

Microsoft takes legal action to disrupt botnet and combat ransomware
Wed, 14th Oct 2020
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Microsoft has announced it took action to disrupt a botnet, Trickbot, one of the world's most infamous botnets and prolific distributors of malware and ransomware.

2020 saw a surge in malware, ransomware and botnets - report
Fri, 14th Aug 2020
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“There has never been a clearer picture than now, of why organisations need to adjust their defence strategies going forward to fully take into account the network perimeter extending into the home."

Bitdefender reveals new botnet which 'puts others to shame'
Thu, 9th Apr 2020
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The botnet, which Bitdefender has dubbed ‘dark_nexus’ based on a string it puts in its banner, boasts new features and capabilities that ‘put to shame’ most other IoT botnets and malware that the cybersecurity has seen.

Microsoft takes down malicious botnet after years of tracking
Fri, 13th Mar 2020
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The botnet, called Necurs, gained control of the computers using malware and used them to commit crimes remotely.

Check Point report highlights latest cyber-threats worldwide
Tue, 21st Jan 2020
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28% of all organisations worldwide were impacted by malicious multi-purpose botnets, while the rise of 20% of incident response cases were targeted ransomware attack.