FBI Disrupts Notorious Kelihos Botnet
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The Justice Department has disrupted the Kelihos botnet, one of the more prolific and long-running spam and malware networks, by sinkholing the botnet’s command-and-control servers after the arrest of a Russian man officials allege is Kelihos’s operator. The botnet has been operating since at least 2010 and has infected hundreds of thousands of computers around […]
New Leet Botnet Generating Huge DDoS Floods
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A new botnet that is capable of some of the larger DDoS attacks ever seen has emerged in the last few days, launching floods of up to 650 Gbps and using a unique payload that researchers say is effective at evading security systems. The network came to light on Dec. 21 when researchers at Imperva […]
Large Network of Compromised Embedded Devices Found
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The word botnet usually conjures images of hordes of compromised PCs being used for DDoS attacks or malware operations, but researchers in the Czech Republic has discovered a large network of compromised CCTV cameras, routers, and other embedded devices that’s growing by tens of thousands of devices per day. Since the end of May, researchers […]