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Tag: botnet

Someone just used the Mirai botnet to knock an entire country offline

Thursday, November 3, 2016 4:30 pm25 Comments

Mirai just knocked an entire country offline…

Self-replicating ‘TheMoon’ worm crawls into Belkin’s Linksys routers

Friday, February 14, 2014 12:01 pmFriday, February 14, 201410 Comments

A self-replicating program is infecting Linksys routers by exploiting…

Researchers peer inside OS X-based Flashback trojan botnet after taking control of command server

Friday, January 10, 2014 11:00 amFriday, January 10, 20149 Comments

The Flashback trojan that hijacked well over 500,000 Macs at its peak…

First malware found in wild that exploits Android app signing flaw

Thursday, July 25, 2013 3:03 pmThursday, July 25, 20139 Comments

Just three weeks after Bluebox Security first announced…

Android smartphones hijacked for illegal botnet, researchers say

Thursday, July 5, 2012 1:32 pmThursday, July 5, 201218 Comments

Smartphones running Google’s Android software have been hijacked…


The Microsoft Tax: ‘Indestructible’ botnet attacks millions of Windows PCs; Macintosh unaffected

Friday, July 1, 2011 8:33 amFriday, July 1, 201127 Comments

The botnet, known as TDL, targets Windows PCs and is difficult to detect…

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