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Emotet, a deadly malware botnet, has started a new spam email campaign after being underground for nearly four months, a security researcher confirmed to ZDNet. According to Raashid Bhat, Emotet is sending spam emails that are laced with malware attachments and/or download links to malware embedded files. Emotet is fully back in action and spamming. […]
The French law enforcement agency, National Gendarmerie, today announced the successful takedown of one of the largest wide-spread RETADUP botnet malware and how it remotely disinfected more than 850,000 computers worldwide with the help of researchers. Earlier this year, security researchers at Avast antivirus firm, who were actively monitoring the activities of RETADUP botnet, discovered […]
A crypto mining botnet operation, going for almost a year, is hijacking web shells of other hackers, according to report from Positive Technologies. Researchers have linked the source of the dangerous botnet to Neutrino gang. Back in 2017, Neutrino (aka Kasidet) was a dangerous trojan that launched DDoS attacks, recorded keystrokes and installed malware on […]
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of WatchBog, a Linux-based cryptocurrency mining malware botnet, which now also includes a module to scan the Internet for Windows RDP servers vulnerable to the Bluekeep flaw. BlueKeep is a highly-critical, wormable, remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows Remote Desktop Services that could allow an unauthenticated remote […]
A couple of years ago the Mirai botnet put thousands of system administrators in trouble before being dismantled; however, website security audit experts claim that malware developers keep using this source code as the basis for new variants of the botnet to exploit Internet of Things (IoT) devices. New versions of the botnet appear with […]
As per ethical hacking consultants, malware has been around in internet worlds from long years. The more new technology comes more malware are spreaded over the internet. Today we will talk about botnet. Botnet is created by infected malware after which bot is circulated over a network. In scenario of infecting large computers botnet is […]
The Cisco security research team has unearthed a hacking attack that targets more than 500,000 consumer Wi-Fi routers. These infected routers can be used to create a massive botnet army and launch a heavyweight cyberattack. As per the findings, this attack seems to be a work of some state-sponsored actor. The malware used to infect […]