Botnet Stories

Thousands of Routers and Cameras Vulnerable To New 0-Day Attacks By Hostile Botnet 18
Ukraine Takes Down Massive Bot Farm, Seizes 150,000 SIM Cards 128
Judge Orders US Lawyer In Russian Botnet Case To Pay Google 15
A Linux Botnet That Spreads Using Stolen SSH Keys 40
Botnet That Hid For 18 Months 12
FBI Operation Aims To Take Down Massive Russian GRU Botnet 12
Emotet Botnet Returns After Law Enforcement Mass-Uninstall Operation 6
Krebs Also Hit By Massive DDOS, Apparently Caused by Compromised Routers 31
Cryptomining Botnet Alters CPU Settings To Boost Mining Performance 21
Trickbot Strikes Back 6
A Crypto-Mining Botnet Is Now Stealing Docker and AWS Credentials 6
US Congress Passes an IoT Security Bill 'That Doesn't Totally Suck' 80
Microsoft Says It Took Down 94% of TrickBot's Command and Control Servers 24
America's 'Cyber Command' Is Trying to Disrupt the World's Largest Botnet 37
A New Botnet Is Covertly Targeting Millions of Servers 27
Hackers Could Use IoT Botnets To Manipulate Energy Markets 39
Microsoft Orchestrates Coordinated Takedown of Necurs Botnet 15
One of the Most Destructive Botnets Can Now Spread To Nearby Wi-Fi Networks 28
Dutch Police Take Down Hornets' Nest of DDoS Botnets 17
World's Most Destructive Botnet Returns With Stolen Passwords and Email In Tow 30
Police Hijack a Botnet and Remotely Kill 850,000 Malware Infections 31
Cops Hijack Botnet, Remotely Wipe Malware From 850,000 Computers 79
Large 'GoldBrute' RDP Botnet Hunts For Exposed Servers With Weak Passwords 16
Bad Bots Now Make Up 20 Percent of Web Traffic 32
New Variants of Mirai Botnet Detected, Targeting More IoT Devices 36
New Mirai Malware Variant Targets Signage TVs and Presentation Systems 21
Qbot Malware Resurfaces In New Attack Against Businesses 120
We'll Likely See a Rise in Internet Blackouts in 2019 58
Do Social Media Bots Have a Right To Free Speech? 170
How Much Internet Traffic Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually. 130
A 100,000-Router Botnet Is Feeding On a 5-Year-Old UPnP Bug In Broadcom Chips 39
Researchers Discover Large Twitter Botnet Pushing Ethereum Scam 43
FBI Seizes Control of Russian Botnet 179
Mirai IoT Botnet Co-Authors Plead Guilty 33
How 'Grinch Bots' Are Ruining Online Christmas Shopping 283
A Third of the Internet Experienced DoS Attacks in the Last Two Years 31
Malware Developer Who Used Spam Botnet To Pay For College Gets No Prison Time 57
2 Million IoT Devices Enslaved By Fast-Growing BotNet 69
At Least 1.65 Million Computers Are Mining Cryptocurrency For Hackers So Far This Year 37
Massive New Spambot Ensnares 711,000,000 Email Addresses 31
Tech Firms Team Up To Take Down 'WireX' Android DDoS Botnet 29
A Year After Mirai: DVR Torture Chamber Test Shows Two Minutes Between Exploits 36
Who's Responsible For IoT Security? 181
Attackers DDoS WannaCry Kill Switch 73
Groups War Over Resources For DDoS Attacks 23
FCC Suspends Net Neutrality Comments, As Chairman Pai Mocks 'Mean Tweets' 184
New IoT Malware Targets 100,000 IP Cameras Via Known Flaw 60
New Shodan Tool Tracks Down Botnet Command-And-Control Servers 11
BrickerBot, the Permanent Denial-of-Service Botnet, Is Back With a Vengeance 113
Developer of BrickerBot Malware Claims He Destroyed Over Two Million Devices 88
New Destructive Malware Intentionally Bricks IoT Devices 163
UW Professor: The Information War Is Real, and We're Losing It 444
Bruce Schneier Calls for IoT Legislation, Argues The Internet Is Becoming One Giant Robot 85
UK Police Arrest Suspect Behind Mirai Malware Attacks On Deutsche Telekom 26
World's Largest Spam Botnet Adds DDoS Feature 26
Study Reveals Bot-On-Bot Editing Wars Raging On Wikipedia's Pages 98
College Network Attacked With Its Own Insecure IoT Devices 53
Programmer Develops Phone Bot To Target Windows Support Scammers 97
14,000 Domains Dropped Dyn's DNS Service After Mirai Attack 27
Can The Mayhem AI Automate Bug-Patching? 23
Researchers Discover Massive Networks of Fake Twitter Accounts 91
Krebs Pinpoints the Likely Author of the Mirai Botnet 98
Bigger Than Mirai: Leet Botnet Delivers 650 Gbps DDoS Attack 74
Russian Hackers Stole $5 Million Per Day From Advertisers With Bots and Fake Websites 93
Ubuntu Survey Discovers 'Consumers Are Terrible' About Updating Their IoT Devices 181
The FBI Is Arresting People Who Rent DDoS Botnets 212
Massive Mirai Botnet Hides Its Control Servers On Tor 149
A 'Turkish Hacker' Is Giving Out Prizes For DDoS Attacks 33
US Think Tank Wants To Regulate The Design of IoT Devices For Security Purposes 87
International Authorities Take Down Massive 'Avalanche' Botnet, Sinkhole Over 800,000 Domains 53
You Can Now Rent A Mirai Botnet Of 400,000 Bots 62
Russian Propaganda Effort Helped Spread 'Fake News' During Election, Experts Say 272
Ask Slashdot: Could A 'Smart Firewall' Protect IoT Devices? 230
4chan May Have Brought Down Pro-Clinton Phone Lines Before Election Day 99
Mirai Botnet Attackers Are Trying To Knock Liberia Offline 73
New, More-Powerful IoT Botnet Infects 3,500 Devices In 5 Days 56
How Vigilante Hackers Could Stop the Internet of Things Botnet 64
Dyn DNS DDoS Likely The Work of Script Kiddies, Says FlashPoint 85
Slashdot Asks: How Can We Prevent Packet-Flooding DDOS Attacks? 351
Dyn Executive Responds To Friday's DDOS Attack 77
John McAfee Thinks North Korea Hacked Dyn, and Iran Hacked the DNC 149
Mirai and Bashlight Join Forces Against DNS Provider Dyn 56
DHS Warns of Mirai Botnet Threat To Cellular Modems 21
MITRE Dangles $50,000 Prize For Spotting Rogue Internet of Things Devices 51
Krebs Warns Source Code Leaked From Massive IoT Botnet Attack 69
OVH Hosting Suffers From Record 1Tbps DDoS Attack Driven By 150K Devices 116
Ask Slashdot: Is My IoT Device Part of a Botnet? 279
Spam Hits Its Highest Level Since 2010 47
IoT Devices With Default Telnet Passwords Used As Botnet 57
'Smart' Electrical Socket Leaks Your Email Address, Can Launch DDoS Attacks 82
LinkedIn Suffers Huge Bot Attack That Steals Members' Personal Data 109
A Massive Botnet of CCTV Cameras Involved In Ferocious DDoS Attacks 79
3 Million Strong Botnet Grows Right Under Twitter's Nose 48
Ransomware Thieves Cost Canada University C$20,000 In Bitcoin 87
Ransomware Adds DDoS Attacks To Annoy More People 37
Police Reveal Tactics For Fighting Botnets 38
This Unusual Botnet Targets Scientists, Engineers, and Academics 67
Security Firm Discovers Secret Plan To Hack Numerous Websites and Forums 29
BAE Systems Warns About Shape-Shifting Strain of Qbot Malware 20
Google Releases Project Shield To Fight Against DDoS Attacks 72
Online Museum Displays Decades of Malware 39
ProxyBack Malware Turns Infected Computers into Internet Proxies 71
Pwnd Aethra Routers Used To Brute-Force WordPress Sites 27
Microsoft, Law Enforcement Disrupt Dorkbot Botnet 31
MySQL Servers Hijacked With Malware To Perform DDoS Attacks 55
Despite Takedown, the Dridex Botnet Is Running Again 57
Compromised CCTV and NAS Devices Found Participating In DDoS Attacks 64
Cyberattacks: Do Motives and Attribution Matter? 44
Citadel Botnet Operator Gets 4.5 Years In Prison 42
Ask Slashdot: Should I Publish My Collection of Email Spamming IP Addresses? 106
WordPress Hacks Behind Surging Neutrino EK Traffic 51
Cleaning Up Botnets Takes Years, May Never Be Completed 74
Ask Slashdot: Who's Going To Win the Malware Arms Race? 155
Obama Administration Wants More Legal Power To Disrupt Botnets 67
3 Million Strong RAMNIT Botnet Taken Down 23
FBI Offers $3 Million Reward For Russian Hacker 66
Lizard Stresser DDoS-for-Hire Service Built On Hacked Home Routers 65
Bots Scanning GitHub To Steal Amazon EC2 Keys 119
Ask Slashdot: What Should We Do About the DDoS Problem? 312
Android Botnet Evolves, Could Pose Threat To Corporate Networks 54
First Shellshock Botnet Attacking Akamai, US DoD Networks 236
Akamai Warns: Linux Systems Infiltrated and Controlled In a DDoS Botnet 230
New Cridex Malware Copies Tactics From GameOver Zeus 18
Alleged Massive Account and Password Seizure By Russian Group 126
Internet Census 2012 Data Examined: Authentic, But Chaotic and Unethical 32
Pushdo Trojan Infects 11,000 Systems In 24 Hours 32
Gameover ZeuS Re-Emerges As Fast-Fluxing Botnet 62
200-400 Gbps DDoS Attacks Are Now Normal 92
Massive Android Mobile Botnet Hijacking SMS Data 117
Europol, Microsoft Target 2-Million Strong ZeroAccess Click Fraud Botnet 44
A Mercenary Approach To Botnets 34
A Live Map of Ongoing DDoS Attacks 46
The Hail Mary Cloud and the Lessons Learned 99
Sinkhole Sucks Brains From Wasteful Bitcoin Mining Botnet 203
Security Company Attributes Tor Traffic Surge To Botnet 55
US Mounted 231 Offensive Cyber-operations In 2011, Runs Worldwide Botnet 367
Kelihos Relying On CBL Blacklists To Evaluate New Bots 23
Ad Networks Lay Path To Million-Strong Browser Botnet 105
Microsoft, FBI Takedown Citadel Botnet 58
Ruby On Rails Exploit Used To Build IRC Botnet 91
Wordpress Sites Under Wide-Scale Brute Force Attack 110
New OS X Trojan Adware Injects Ads Into Chrome, Firefox, Safari 129
Botnet Uses Default Passwords To Conduct "Internet Census 2012" 222
Rich Countries Suffer Less Malware, Says Microsoft Study 84
Alleged ZeuS Botmaster Arrested For Stealing $100M From US Banks 76
Tor Network Used To Command Skynet Botnet 105
Microsoft Disrupts Nitol Botnet 92
Arizona Botnet Controller Draws 30-Month Federal Sentence 76
A Month After Grum Botnet Takedown, Spam Back To Previous Levels 47
Inside the Grum Botnet 34
Botnet Flaw Lets Researchers Disrupt Attacks 26
New Round of Server Take-Downs Fells Grum Botnet 14
Dutch Police Takedown C&Cs Used By Grum Botnet 45
White House Announces Initiative To Fight Botnets 89
Four Years Jail For Bredolab Botnet Author 47
Apple Updates Java To Include Flashback Removal 121
Stuxnet Allegedly Loaded By Iranian Double Agents 167
Apple Snubs Security Firm That Spotted Mac Botnet 409
MacControl Trojan Being Used In Targeted Attacks Against OS X Users 187
Taking Down DNSChanger: A First Person Account 46
Political Party's Leadership Election Hit By DDoS Attack 100
Microsoft Leads Sting Operation Against Zeus Botnets 114
Anonymous Supporters Tricked Into Installing Trojan 184
New ZeuS Botnet No Longer Needs Central Command Servers 137
Tools, Techniques, Procedures of the RSA Hackers Revealed 54
Kelihos Botnet Comes Back To Life 97
Microsoft Names Reputed Head of Kelihos Botnet 30
Koobface Malware Traced To 5 Russians 64
Leaked Online Chats Expose Author of Largest Spam Botnet 78
Microsoft Drops Suit Against Firm In Botnet Case 49
Most Sophisticated Rootkit Getting an Overhaul 104
Hackers Buying IPv4 Blocks To Evade Detection 89
The Inside Story of the Kelihos Takedown 83
Microsoft Disables Kelihos Botnet 94
SpyEye Botnet Nets Fraudster $3.2M In Six Months 99
Microsoft Offers $250,000 Reward For Botnet Info 99
Spammers Prefer Compromised Accounts To Botnets 53
Microsoft: No Botnet Is Indestructible 245
Massive Botnet "Indestructible," Say Researchers 583
Multiplatform Java Botnet Spotted In the Wild 203
Feds To Remotely Uninstall Bot From Some PCs 211
DOJ Gets Court Permission To Attack Botnet 84
Spam Drops 1/3 After Rustock Botnet Gets Crushed 199
Microsoft Conducts Massive Botnet Takedown Action 302
The Life of a Cybercrime Investigator 79
Years-Old Conficker Worm Still a Threat 71
Hackers Increasingly Using Twitter For Botnets 56
Hackers Bringing Telnet Back 238
Storm Botnet Returns As Part of New Year's Attacks 66
Raising a Botnet In Captivity 60
Operation Payback and Hactivism 101 423
Has Progress Been Made In Fighting DDoS Attacks? 206
'Anonymous' WikiLeaks Proponents Not So Anonymous 390
Researchers Tracking Emerging 'Darkness' Botnet 85
A Third of World's Spam From One Russian Man 233
Aussie Gov't Decides ISPs Aren't Responsible For Infected Computers 129
50 ISPs Harbor Half of All Infected Machines 140
Researchers Take Down Koobface Servers 35
Former Student Gets 30 Months For Political DDoS Attacks 486
Massive DDoS Cuts Myanmar Off From Net 149
Bredolab Botnet Taken Down 187
Rise of the Small Botnet 61
Iranian Cyber Army Moves Into Botnet Renting 63
Hacker Business Models 96
Microsoft Looks To Courts For Botnet Takedowns 93
US Reigns As Most Bot-Infected Country 121
Should ISPs Cut Off Bot-infected Users? 486
Comcast Warns Customers Suspected of Bot Infection 196
Software Theft a Problem For Actual Thieves, Too 152
US, NY Bust 92 Mules In 'ZeuS Trojan' Crime Ring 97
Researchers Cripple Pushdo Botnet 129
Large Zeus Botnet Used For Financial Fraud 68
Suspected Mariposa Botnet Creator Arrested 95
Attackers Using Social Networks For Botnet Control 40
Photo Kiosks Infecting Customers' USB Devices 288
Botnets Using Ubiquity For Security 95
Prosecuting DDoS Attacks? 164
Symantec Finds Server Containing 44 Million Stolen Gaming Credentials 146
Mariposa Botmasters Sought Real Jobs After Arrest 92
Texas Man Pleads Guilty To Building Botnet-For-Hire 95
A Year's Further Research On an Espionage Network 61
Seeking Competitive Advantage, For Malware 39
Microsoft Fuzzing Botnet Finds 1,800 Office Bugs 111
The Biggest Cloud Providers Are Botnets 116
How To Avoid a Botnet Infection? 396
Naming and Shaming "Bad" ISPs 79
Memory Cards of 3,000 Phones Infected By Malware 63
Waledac Botnet Now Completely Offline, Experts Say 91
The Coming Botnet Stock Exchange 105
Malware Authors Learn Market Segmentation From the Best 49
Zeus Botnet Down But Not Out 67
Zeus Botnet Dealt a Blow As ISPs Troyak, Group 3 Knocked Out 156
HTC Android Phones Found With Malware Pre-Installed 158
Microsoft Secretly Beheads Notorious Waledac Botnet 381
Chuck Norris Attacks Linux-Based Routers, Modems 193
Operation Titstorm Hits the Streets 458
Anonymous Speaks About Australian Gov't. Attacks 235
New Russian Botnet Tries To Kill Rivals 136
Man Challenges 250,000 Strong Botnet and Succeeds 206
Deconstructing a Pump-and-Dump Spam Botnet 382