As first revealed by KrebsOnSecurity in January 2017, the Mirai authors were two U.S. men who co-ran a DDoS mitigation ...

A newly discovered Go-based Linux botnet malware named PumaBot is brute-forcing SSH credentials on embedded IoT devices to ...

Over 9,000 ASUS routers are compromised by a novel botnet dubbed "AyySSHush" that was also observed targeting SOHO routers ...

PumaBot hijacks Linux IoT devices via SSH brute-force, fakes Redis services, and mines crypto using stealthy rootkits.

A new botnet is preparing to take over the legacy of Mirai – only much stronger. A security expert was attacked at 6.3 ...

HTTPBot, first spotted in the wild in August 2024, gets its name from the use of HTTP protocols to launch distributed ...

Forky’s Aisuru flexes digital muscle with record-baiting DDoS test shot KrebsOnSecurity just took a hit from a 6.3 terabit ...

In an online interview, Meyer made the following points: This botnet is much larger than what we're used to seeing in DDoS attacks (the only precedent I have in mind is an attack from 2022 right ...

A ‘perfect storm’ for hackers in 2025 has already impacted millions across the UK. Speaking to security experts and critical ...

Cloudflare says it blocked a 5.6Tbps DDoS attack in October 2024 The attack came from a Mirai botnet It included 13,000 IPs, and lasted 80 seconds Cloudflare has claimed it recently blocked the ...

there are plenty of botnet operators out there who will rent out DDoS as a service. So, it's nigh impossible to figure out who’s actually behind a DDoS attack. How do DDoS attacks work?

occurring regularly), new levels of attack complexity (from many more sources to many more destinations and involving tens to hundreds of thousands of endpoints in case of botnet DDoS), and at a ...