The ShadowV2 DDoS operation, discovered by Darktrace, uses a command-and-control framework hosted on GitHub CodeSpaces, a ...

The newly discovered malware infects IoT devices in tandem with the prolific Gafgyt botnet, using known security vulnerabilities. A recently developed botnet named “Simps” has emerged from the ...

On Wednesday, at about 12:15 pm EST, 1.35 terabits per second of traffic hit the developer platform GitHub all at once. It was the most powerful distributed denial of service attack recorded to ...

The IoT-targeted malware has also added new exploits for initial compromise, for Huawei, Realtek and Dasan GPON devices. Several variants of the Gafgyt Linux-based botnet malware family have ...

ShadowV2 botnet exploits AWS Docker flaws using Python C2 and Go RAT, enabling sophisticated DDoS-for-hire attacks.

A Linux botnet has grown so powerful that it can generate crippling distributed denial-of-service attacks at over 150 Gbps, many times greater than a typical company’s infrastructure can withstand.

A new way to amplify distributed denial-of-service attacks ended up harassing Github on Wednesday. The ensuing DDoS attack generated a flood of internet traffic that peaked at 1.35 Terabits per second ...

A new botnet is actively targeting IoT devices using payloads compiled for a dozen CPU architectures and uses them to launch several types of DDoS and to spread various types of malware. The Dark ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. GitHub reported on March 1 that it was the victim of a ...

For nearly a month, a new botnet has been slowly growing in the shadows, feasting on unsecured Apache Hadoop servers, and planting bots on vulnerable servers to be used for future DDoS attacks. First ...

A new Mirai-based botnet malware named Enemybot has been observed growing its army of infected devices through vulnerabilities in modems, routers, and IoT devices, with the threat actor operating it ...