Since May 2018, a malware botnet has been launching brute-force attacks against Microsoft SQL (MSSQL) databases to take over admin accounts and then install cryptocurrency mining scripts on the ...

The FritzFrog botnet has reappeared with a new P2P campaign, showing growth of 10x within only a month. FritzFrog is a peer-to-peer botnet discovered in January 2020. Over a period of eight months, ...

The FritzFrog botnet that's been active for more than two years has resurfaced with an alarming infection rate, growing ten times in just a month of hitting healthcare, education, and government ...

An apparent Russian script kiddie is converting widespread security gaps into a powerful botnet capable of launching global-scale distributed denial-of-service attacks. See Also: From Intel to Action: ...

Mirai took advantage of insecure IoT devices in a simple but clever way. It scanned big blocks of the internet for open Telnet ports, then attempted to log in default passwords. In this way, it was ...