Delivering more proof that the Log4Shell vulnerability is endemic, Akamai researchers detected botnet malware updated to use the flaw as an infection vector, supplementing its usual remote login brute ...

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 ...

The RondoDox botnet has expanded its exploit list to 174 vulnerabilities, increased its activity, and shifted to more targeted exploitation.

Attackers quickly turn around real-world attacks using proof-of-concept code, taking only days to weeks to create workable exploits from published research, according to six months of data collected ...

The US government has moved to disrupt a cluster of IoT botnets behind some of the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded, ...

Two separate Mirai botnet campaigns are exploiting a critical flaw in a somewhat unlikely target. The Akamai Security Intelligence and Response Team recently observed exploitation of CVE-2025-24016, a ...

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

A new Mirai-based malware botnet named 'InfectedSlurs' has been exploiting two zero-day remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities to infect routers and video recorder (NVR) devices. The malware ...

Criminals hijack thousands of devices to create never-before-seen cyber weapon - Victims of the KadNap botnet are spread throughout the world ...

Threat actors have been observed exploiting a critical vulnerability, CVE-2023-46604, in Apache systems. Over the past few weeks, Fortiguard Labs identified multiple threat actors leveraging this ...

FortiGuard Labs, the research arm of security firm Fortinet, has uncovered a significant evolution in the IZ1H9 Mirai-based DDoS campaign. Discovered in September and described in an advisory ...

Shellshock continues to reverberate: Attackers are exploiting recently discovered vulnerabilities in the Bash command-line interpreter in order to infect Linux servers with a sophisticated malware ...