All CosmicBytez Labs articles tagged #Botnet, across news, security advisories, how-to guides, and projects.
Dutch authorities seized command-and-control servers tied to a botnet of 17 million infected computers, smartphones, and tablets that was allegedly used to power a residential proxy network and facilitate widespread cybercrime.
DDoS attacks are increasingly sold as subscription services with pricing tiers, reseller programs, and customer support. Flare's analysis reveals how the DDoS-as-a-Service market has matured from scattered tools into polished criminal attack platforms.
Dutch authorities took offline a massive botnet of 17 million infected devices and seized more than 200 servers from a local hosting provider that...
CrowdStrike, Google, and Shadowserver dismantled the Glassworm botnet, stripping operators of infrastructure used to inject malware into OSS packages.
Canadian authorities arrested a 23-year-old Ottawa man suspected of building and operating Kimwolf, an IoT botnet that enslaved millions of devices for...
Jacob Butler, a Canadian national, has been arrested and charged in the United States and Canada for running the KimWolf DDoS-for-hire botnet, which...
U.S. and Canadian authorities arrested and charged a Canadian man with operating the Kimwolf DDoS botnet, which infected nearly two million devices...
Russia's Turla APT has transformed its long-running Kazuar backdoor into a modular peer-to-peer botnet architecture engineered for stealth and deep...
Secret Blizzard, a Russian state-sponsored threat group, has evolved its long-running Kazuar backdoor into a sophisticated modular peer-to-peer botnet...
CISA has added four actively exploited vulnerabilities affecting SimpleHelp, Samsung MagicINFO 9 Server, and D-Link DIR-823X routers to its Known...
A new Mirai-based malware campaign is actively exploiting CVE-2025-29635, a high-severity command-injection vulnerability in end-of-life D-Link DIR-823X...
Researchers have discovered a SystemBC proxy botnet of over 1,570 compromised hosts linked to Gentlemen ransomware operations. The gang's affiliate is...
Threat actors are deploying the Nexcorium Mirai botnet variant by exploiting CVE-2024-3721 in TBK DVR devices and targeting end-of-life TP-Link Wi-Fi...
This week's ThreatsDay Bulletin from The Hacker News covers 20 active threats including a hybrid P2P DDoS botnet, a 13-year-old Apache ActiveMQ RCE flaw...
A joint operation by the US Department of Justice, Canada, and Germany has dismantled the infrastructure behind four highly disruptive IoT botnets that...
Ilya Angelov, co-leader of the TA551/Mario Kart cybercrime group, was sentenced to two years in prison for operating a phishing botnet that sent 700,000...
The U.S. Department of Justice, in coordination with Germany and Canada, has dismantled the C2 infrastructure of four major IoT botnets — AISURU, Kimwolf,...
Security researchers discover a new Linux botnet named SSHStalker that leverages the legacy IRC protocol for C2 operations, marking a return to old-school...
IoT botnet Kimwolf launches sustained attack against The Invisible Internet Project (I2P), disrupting the encrypted, decentralized communications network...
Cloudflare discloses the largest publicly reported DDoS attack to date, peaking at 31.4 Tbps during 'The Night Before Christmas' campaign attributed to...