IoT security cannot be abstract — it must be grounded in the operational realities that CIOs and CISOs face. Here are six persistent challenges that must be addressed head-on: Device proliferation.

A joint international law enforcement action shut down two services accused of providing a botnet of hacked internet-connected devices, including routers, to cybercriminals. U.S. prosecutors also ...

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 after the Ukraine invasion, at ~60k bots, but not public).

A massive Chinese botnet is targeting Microsoft 365 accounts with large-scale password spraying attacks that can bypass multifactor authentication (MFA), according to SecurityScorecard. The botnet , ...

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Researchers at cybersecurity software provider Qualys Inc. are warning of a new Mirai botnet variant that's being used to target vulnerabilities in AVTECH Cameras and Huawei HG523 routers.The v ...

A newly discovered botnet of 13,000 MikroTik devices uses a misconfiguration in domain name server records to bypass email protections and deliver malware by spoofing roughly 20,000 web domains.

According to researchers, the botnet has been attacking hundreds of targets every day since its discovery in February 2024. The number of daily active bot IPs is 15,000, most of which are located ...

Overall, the botnet uses more than 20 vulnerabilities and weak Telnet passwords to spread, according to XLab. The firm claimed to have observed around 15,000 active IPs located mainly in China, Russia ...

Nearly 35 million internet-connected devices are the types of devices targeted by Matrix. "Assuming only 1% of these devices are exploitable, the potential botnet size could reach 350,000 devices. If ...

Androxgh0st, a botnet known to steal cloud credentials and exploit vulnerabilities in web frameworks and servers, is now also targeting IoT devices such as home routers, security firm CloudSEK ...