The Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets had infected more than 3 million devices in total, many inside home networks, according to the US Justice Department.

A huge network of more than 3 million devices has been disrupted in an operation targeting DDoS botnets.

Aisuru emerged in late 2024, and by mid-2025 it was launching record-breaking DDoS attacks as it rapidly infected new IoT devices. In October 2025, Aisuru was used to seed Kimwolf, an Aisuru variant ...

U.S. authorities seized KimWolf - the attack infrastructure responsible for the largest distributed denial of service attack ...

The armies of hacked computers and internet of things gadgets powered disruption and extortion campaigns that sometimes cost victims tens of thousands of dollars.

Security researchers say they have observed what they believe is a takedown of the notorious Mozi botnet that infiltrated more than a million Internet of Things devices worldwide. In research shared ...

Botnets are increasingly making up more and more of the malware traffic found on service provider networks, with cybercriminals using these Internet of Things bots for a range of malicious schemes, ...

A Chinese-controlled botnet of tens of thousands of unpatched internet-connected firewalls, network attached storage devices, internet-connected surveillance cameras, and small office/home office ...

Google has filed a lawsuit against the operators of a what is believed to be the largest smart TV botnet in the world — BadBox 2.0. The company said in its complaint that this China-based botnet had ...

The Mozi botnet, known for exploiting vulnerabilities in a large number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, has been experienced a sudden decline in activity in August 2023. According to an advisory ...

A previously unknown cybercrime syndicate named 'Bigpanzi' has been making significant money by infecting Android TV and eCos set-top boxes worldwide since at least 2015. Beijing-based Qianxin Xlabs ...

Popular for monitoring Docker containers, Wazuh is being exploited by two Mirai botnet variants — one of which aligns closely with researchers’ previously released proof-of-concept attack against the ...