#botnet

The US says a Chinese national operated the “911 S5” botnet, which included computers worldwide and was used to file hundreds of thousands of fraudulent Covid claims and distribute CSAM, among other crimes.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today said they arrested the alleged operator of 911 S5, a ten-year-old online anonymity service that was powered by what the director of the FBI called "likely the world's largest botnet ever." The arrest coincided with the seizure of the 911 S5 website and supporting infrastructure, which the government says turned computers running various "free VPN" products into Internet traffic relays that facilitated billions of dollars in online fraud and cybercrime.

By Cyber Newswire ELLIO and ntop partnership to boost high-speed network traffic monitoring with real-time data on opportunistic scans, botnets, and… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: ELLIO and ntop Partnership Enhances Real-Time Network Traffic Monitoring

By Cyber Newswire ELLIO and ntop partnership to boost high-speed network traffic monitoring with real-time data on opportunistic scans, botnets, and… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: ELLIO and ntop Partnership Enhances Real-Time Network Traffic Monitoring

The U.S. Department of the Treasury today unveiled sanctions against three Chinese nationals for allegedly operating 911 S5, an online anonymity service that for many years was the easiest and cheapest way to route one's Web traffic through malware-infected computers around the globe. KrebsOnSecurity identified one of the three men in a July 2022 investigation into 911 S5, which was massively hacked and then closed ten days later.

The threat actors behind the CatDDoS malware botnet have exploited over 80 known security flaws in various software over the past three months to infiltrate vulnerable devices and co-opt them into a botnet for conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. "CatDDoS-related gangs' samples have used a large number of known vulnerabilities to deliver samples," the QiAnXin XLab team

By Deeba Ahmed Russian hackers and APT groups are escalating cyberattacks, leveraging readily available malware and broadening their targets beyond governments.… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russian Hackers Shift Tactics, Target More Victims with Paid Malware

The cryptojacking group known as Kinsing has demonstrated its ability to continuously evolve and adapt, proving to be a persistent threat by swiftly integrating newly disclosed vulnerabilities to exploit arsenal and expand its botnet. The findings come from cloud security firm Aqua, which described the threat actor as actively orchestrating illicit cryptocurrency mining

A malware botnet called Ebury is estimated to have compromised 400,000 Linux servers since 2009, out of which more than 100,000 were still compromised as of late 2023. The findings come from Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET, which characterized it as one of the most advanced server-side malware campaigns for financial gain. "Ebury actors have been pursuing monetization activities [...],

By cybernewswire Torrance, California, May 13th, 2024, CyberNewsWire Criminal IP, a renowned Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) search engine developed by… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Criminal IP and Quad9 Collaborate to Exchange Domain and IP Threat Intelligence