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Int’l Police Target Botnets In ‘Operation Endgame’
Police in Europe, US target multiple botnets in biggest-ever coordinated cyber action to disrupt 'dropper' infrastructure

Botnet Controlled By Russia’s GRU Disrupted By US, UK
Botnet controlled by Russian military intelligence disrupted by the United States, which removed GRU control of thousands of infected devices

Emotet Botnet Offline After Global Takedown By Police
Good news. One of the world's most dangerous botnets, Emotet, has been taken down in a co-ordinated police operation around the world

Some Laptops For Vulnerable Children Contain Malware – Report
A small number of laptops handed out by the Department for Education to vulnerable children, reportedly contain malware linked to Russian servers

Microsoft Takes Down Trickbot Hacking Operation
Another takedown from Microsoft sees it disrupt key Trickbot servers, which it said could have indirectly impact US election infrastructure

Researchers Take Down Massive Crypto-Mining Botnet
VictoryGate crypto-mining botnet infected at least 35,000 systems, mostly in Peru, and continues to spread via infected removable USB drives

Microsoft And Others Takedown Botnet Necurs
One of the world's largest botnets that was responsible for multiple scams and infected over nine million computers, has been taken down

French Cyber Police Takedown Paris-based Botnet
C3N cybercrime unit, along with the FBI and Avast, take down French botnet that infected 850,000 computers

More Than 25,000 Linksys Smart Wi-Fi Routers Found Leaking Sensitive...
The issue appears to be due to an incomplete patch for a known issue dating from 2014

New Mirai Variant Targets Enterprise Networks
Researchers warn businesses to be vigilant as notorious IoT botnet looks to take over enterprise devices

Gozi Banking Malware Returns, Backed By ‘Dark Cloud’...
The infamous Gozi banking Trojan is being used in targeted attacks deployed over surprisingly sophisticated botnet infrastructure, finds Cisco

Fast-Spreading Botnet Infects Android Gadgets For Crypto-Mining
A botnet that surfaced over the weekend spread to thousands of smartphones and set-top boxes in the first hours of its existence

Satori Botnet Wakes Up And Enlists 263,000 Bots
Variant of the more infamous Mirai malware starting to propagate very quickly, researchers warn

Gamarue Botnet Disrupted In Global Operation
Law enforcement agencies around the world close down long-running botnets powered by Gamarue malware

Mirai-Like IoT Botnet ‘Has Already Hacked Millions Of...
The Reaper botnet is expanding more aggressively than Mirai did and has the potential to cause more disruption, researchers say

Spambot Contains 711 Million Email Addresses
Huge data breach. Misconfigured spambot reveals 700m email addresses and number of passwords

IBM: Targeted Spam Malware Sticks To Working Hours
Malware spam is targeting organisations by closely following European and US work patterns, finds new research from IBM X-Force

Botnets Target FCC Website Over Net Neutrality, Researchers Say
Researchers claim bots are spamming US regulator website over net neutrality rule change proposal

Persirai Botnet Targets Internet-Connected Cameras
Following Mirai, the Persirai botnet is the latest to take over connected devices and use them to launch denial-of-service attacks

BrickerBot Malware ‘Disables Two Million Devices’
A malware family aimed at 'bricking' devices before they can be infected by Mirai has allegedly rendered millions of vulnerable devices useless
US Dismantles Kelihos Botnet After ‘Spam Kingpin’ Arrest
Russian Pyotr Levashov, suspected of being one of the Internet's biggest spam and malware operators, is arrested in Spain

Mirai Botnet Starts Mining For Bitcoins In New Twist
Researchers discover a new strain of the notorious Mirai botnet which goes bitcoin hunting

Mirai Botnet Hits US College With Massive 54 Hour Attack
Mirai returns (or at least a variant of it) warns researchers at Imperva Incapsula who witnessed the attack

Necurs Botnet Targets Users With Old-School Stock Scam
Getting emails about a once-in-a-lifetime stock opportunity? It's probably too good to be true

Imeij Botnet Malware Targets IoT Cameras
The Imeij malware exploits a bug in AVTech video surveillance equipment first disclosed last year, but never patched by the Taiwanese vendor

Sophos: IoT Malware Growing More Sophisticated
The malware targeting connected devices is using increasingly complex techniques, Sophos has found

Hacker Takes Over 150,000 Exposed Printers
Mystery messages warn users to secure their network-connected printers

Journalist Brian Krebs ‘Unmasks’ Mirai Botnet Developer
The IoT botnet code was used to power an attack that knocked Twitter and Netflix offline last year

Mirai UK Botnet Consists Mostly Of TalkTalk Routers
The Mirai botnet has spread like wildfire and now infects 2,398 home routers across the UK, with 99 percent of them being Talk Talk routers.