Drawing little attention to themselves, multiple threat actors have spent the past two-three years mass-scanning the internet for ENV files that have been accidentally uploaded and left exposed on web ...

Two separate Mirai botnet campaigns are exploiting a critical flaw in a somewhat unlikely target. The Akamai Security Intelligence and Response Team recently observed exploitation of CVE-2025-24016, a ...

Anthropic warns small AI models could form IoT botnets; GLM-5.2 propagated Llama3.1-8B to eight nodes in four of five tests.

A 22-year-old Washington man was sentenced to 13 months in prison for renting and developing Mirai and Qbot-based DDoS botnets used in DDoS attacks against targets from all over the world.

Wazuh is a popular open-source security information and event management (SIEM) and extended detection and response (XDR) solution that’s widely used for host-based intrusion detection, log analysis, ...

While purely speculative at this point, Anthropic says AI models might one day be able to use ‘internet-connected devices’ to create AI botnets.

For the past few weeks, a threat actor who goes online by the name of “Subby” has taken over the IoT DDoS botnets of 29 other hackers, ZDNet has learned. The hacker exploited the fact that some botnet ...

Botnets—groups of computers infected with malicious software often used for crime—cost the economy billions of dollars each year. Technology makers, ISPs, cybersecurity companies, and law enforcement ...