Among the headlines in the tech press last week was news of a massive Linux botnet that was apparently crippling various sites on the Internet with 150Gbps of traffic. After reading a number of ...

A novel Go-based Linux botnet, dubbed "PumaBot," has been observed targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices. PumaBot differentiates itself from typical botnets by remotely retrieving a list of ...

A Linux-based botnet is alive and well, powering cryptocurrency theft and financial scams years after the imprisonment of one the key perpetrators behind it. The Ebury botnet — which was first ...

Qualys reports the discovery by their threat research unit of vulnerabilities in the Linux AppArmor system used by SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, and ...

A botnet targeting Internet of Things devices running on the Linux operating system works by brute forcing credentials and downloading cryptomining software. See Also: IoT and Cloud Systems Face ...

A new report out today from Fortinet Inc.’s FortiGuard Labs details the activities of two different botnets observed through October and November that are being spread through vulnerabilities in ...

Ten years ago we raised awareness of Ebury by publishing a white paper we called Operation Windigo, which documented a campaign that leveraged Linux malware for financial gain. Today we publish a ...

Security researchers are warning about a novel Linux botnet, dubbed PumaBot, targeting Internet of Things (IOT) surveillance devices. According to a DarkTrace observation, the botnet bypasses the ...

Cryptocurrency and blockchain project databases with weak credentials and AI-generated are being hacked through deployment patterns picked up by botnets, according to new research from Check Point. A ...