A novel Go-based Linux botnet, dubbed "PumaBot," has been observed targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices. PumaBot differentiates itself from typical botnets by remotely retrieving a list of ...

Among the headlines in the tech press last week was news of a massive Linux botnet that was apparently crippling various sites on the Internet with 150Gbps of traffic. After reading a number of ...

The DDoS-capable Masjesu botnet focuses on evasion and persistence, but targets a broad range of IoT devices to spread.

Chaos malware targets misconfigured cloud deployments, detected by Darktrace in 2025, expanding botnet monetization via proxy ...

A botnet targeting Internet of Things devices running on the Linux operating system works by brute forcing credentials and downloading cryptomining software. See Also: IoT and Cloud Systems Face ...

A newly discovered botnet is compromising poorly-protected Linux servers by brute-forcing weak SSH password login authentication. Researchers at Canada-based Flare Systems, who discovered the botnet, ...

The ides of security March are upon us — Qualys reports the discovery by their threat research unit of vulnerabilities in the Linux AppArmor system used by SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, and Kubernetes as an ...

Security researchers are warning about a novel Linux botnet, dubbed PumaBot, targeting Internet of Things (IOT) surveillance devices. According to a DarkTrace observation, the botnet bypasses the ...

A previously harmless Linux botnet has been updated to include a suite of malicious and exploitative components. The unimaginatively named "P2PInfect" is a worm that leverages the Redis in-memory ...

Unpatched industrial IoT devices are exposing smart factory floors to commercial botnet extortion and severe operational ...

A new report out today from Fortinet Inc.’s FortiGuard Labs details the activities of two different botnets observed through October and November that are being spread through vulnerabilities in ...