A relatively new Mirai-based botnet has been growing in sophistication and is now leveraging zero-day exploits for security flaws in industrial routers and smart home devices. Exploitation of ...

Old TP-Link router flaw is being abused again The threat actors are building out a botnet named Ballista They are operating ...

A global Internet of Things (IoT) botnet campaign, dubbed "Ballista," has been targeting unpatched TP-Link routers since the beginning of 2025. The botnet exploits a remote code execution ...

Security researchers have uncovered a new Mirai-based botnet that uses zero-day exploits for industrial routers and smart home devices to spread. The offensively named “gayfemboy” botnet was first ...

A new botnet is exploiting dozens of known vulnerabilities in hard-to-patch edge devices. "RondoDox" is characteristically unlike most botnets, researchers from Trend Micro said in a report on ...

Cyber criminals are exploiting IoT devices in homes to create a botnet called BADBOX 2.0, enabling illegal online activities. Most compromised devices are manufactured in China and become infected ...

Cloudflare detected 8.3 million DDoS attacks in the last quarter overall, reflecting a 40% year-over-year (YoY) increase in ...

TL;DR: GreyNoise uncovered the AyySSHush botnet infecting over 8,000 hosts, mainly ASUS routers, exploiting known bypass bugs to gain persistent SSH backdoor access that survives firmware updates.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Hot on the heels of an IBM X-Force threat intelligence report ...

According to researchers, the botnet has been attacking hundreds of targets every day since its discovery in February 2024. The number of daily active bot IPs is 15,000, most of which are located in ...