#botnet
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Budget Android Phones Arrive With Malware Already Built Into the Firmware
Bitdefender has uncovered Midnight Mimosa, malware baked into the firmware of cheap Android phones that turns them into residential-proxy nodes and ad-fraud tools.
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PoeLLM Hides Its C2 Address in a Poem, Infecting 3,400+ Servers
The Canto Incognito campaign hunts internet-exposed AI and LLM services, turning them into cryptocurrency miners and scanners that seek out fresh victims.
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FBI Takes Down the NightmareStresser DDoS Platform
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has seized the domains of one of the oldest DDoS-for-hire services. The operation was part of the international PowerOFF campaign.
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The Sality Botnet Neutralized by Its Own P2P Protocol
The US Justice Department has announced the takedown of the peer-to-peer Sality network, active since 2003. Investigators turned the botnet's resilient P2P architecture against itself.
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US Justice Department Reworded Its Statement: Agencies Weren't Victims of Chinese Hackers, but Targets
The US Department of Justice has rewritten its press release about the cyber operation by the QTFY group: the agencies are now called “targets” rather than “victims” of the attacks. The change in wording indicates that only some of the organizations were actually breached.
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Tengu Botnet Reboots Linux Devices When Defenders Kill Its Process
A new Mirai-based botnet abuses the hardware watchdog: kill its main process and the infected device reboots, giving the malware a chance to start up all over again.
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Lone Hacker Handed Gemini CLI the Reins of an Eight-PC Dental Clinic Botnet
A Russian-speaking attacker going by the handle bandcampro turned Google's open-source AI agent into his engineering team: it wrote code, fixed infrastructure, and commanded the bots on plain-language orders.