The U.S. Justice Department confirmed on Wednesday that it disrupted a botnet run by a prolific Chinese government hacking operation known as Volt Typhoon. News of the botnet takedown first emerged on ...

The same day, security company Qualys published research detailing a "large-scale, ongoing operation" dubbed the Murdoc Botnet. It exploits vulnerabilities to install a Mirai variant, primarily on ...

A new variant of the Mirai malware has been observed exploiting vulnerabilities in Avtech cameras and Huawei routers to ensnare the devices into a botnet, security firm Qualys reports. Dubbed Murdoc ...

Security researchers observe new botnet-building campaign called Murdoc Its attacks are targeting IP cameras and routers More than 1,000 devices have been identified as compromised Cybersecurity ...

The activity originated from a Mirai-variant botnet. "The attack lasted only 80 seconds and originated from over 13,000 IoT devices," Cloudflare's Omer Yoachimik and Jorge Pacheco said in a report.

Threat actors are exploiting an unspecified zero-day vulnerability in Cambium Networks cnPilot routers to deploy a variant of the AISURU botnet called AIRASHI to carry out distributed ...

Connect with him on X (@gadget_ry), Bluesky (@gadgetry.bsky.social), and/or Mastodon (@[email protected]) A record 5.6 Tbps Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, powered by a Mirai botnet ...

The largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack to date peaked at 5.6 terabits per second and came from a Mirai-based botnet with 13,000 compromised devices. The UDP-based attack occurred ...

Researchers at cybersecurity software provider Qualys Inc. are warning of a new Mirai botnet variant that’s being used to target vulnerabilities in AVTECH Cameras and Huawei HG523 routers.

In both instances, Cloudflare fended off the assaults. The company has sourced the attacks to various botnets, or armies of infected computers. In its newest report, Cloudflare traced the Oct.

A significant botnet campaign leveraging a new variant of the infamous Mirai malware, dubbed Murdoc_Botnet, has been observed targeting AVTECH cameras and Huawei HG532 routers, exploiting known ...