Mozi’s spike comes amid a huge increase in overall IoT botnet activity. The Mozi botnet, a peer-2-peer (P2P) malware known previously for taking over Netgear, D-Link and Huawei routers, has swollen in ...

The increased proliferation of IoT devices paved the way for the rise of IoT botnets that amplifies DDoS attacks today. This is a dangerous warning that the possibility of a sophisticated DDoS attack ...

Security researchers from Romanian antivirus vendor Bitdefender have discovered a botnet that infects home routers and other Internet of Things (IoT) smart devices and then attempts to mine for ...

With the abundance of Internet of Things (IoT) devices comes the proliferation of malware designed to exploit them. This is, of course, inevitable and, for the most part, there’s very little anyone ...

A fast-evolving botnet discovered earlier this year that initially targeted Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as home routers and DVRs is now taking aim at NoSQL database servers. The Hide 'N Seek ...

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 ...

On a Friday morning in the fall of 2016, the Mirai botnet wrecked havoc on internet infrastructure, causing major website outages across the United States. It was a wake-up call, revealing the true ...

Level 3 Threat Research has noted an uptick in activity by new IoT botnets that are backed by the Mirai malware, with some attacks enlisting 100,000 individual hijacked devices. A significant number ...