A new Mirai-based malware botnet named 'InfectedSlurs' has been exploiting two zero-day remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities to infect routers and video recorder (NVR) devices. The malware ...

Tengu botnet, a newly disclosed Mirai variant, weaponizes the hardware watchdog timer in routers and IP cameras to force a ...

Two separate Mirai botnet campaigns are exploiting a critical flaw in a somewhat unlikely target. The Akamai Security Intelligence and Response Team recently observed exploitation of CVE-2025-24016, a ...

Delivering more proof that the Log4Shell vulnerability is endemic, Akamai researchers detected botnet malware updated to use the flaw as an infection vector, supplementing its usual remote login brute ...

A malware botnet is exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in end-of-life GeoVision devices to compromise and recruit them for likely DDoS or cryptomining attacks. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2024-11120 ...

FortiGuard Labs, the research arm of security firm Fortinet, has uncovered a significant evolution in the IZ1H9 Mirai-based DDoS campaign. Discovered in September and described in an advisory ...

TuxBot v3 Evolution contains raw LLM reasoning, 1,496 Telnet credentials, and exploits for over 30 IoT device families in a modular DDoS botnet.

Ankit Anubhav, a principal researcher at NewSky Security, has written about the firm's discovery of a new Internet of Things (IoT) botnet that will -- for the first time -- bypass enterprise firewalls ...

The malware has added exploits for more web applications and devices to its arsenal and some of them seem to be inherited from an older botnet called Mozi. Androxgh0st, a botnet known to steal cloud ...