Tag: botnet
A botnet recruits an AI agent to harvest stolen API keys
CARBONATO hijacks exposed Docker daemons, then runs an AI agent to loot credentials and fund its own model access.
Sality’s peer-to-peer design carried the seed of its own takedown
US and European agencies sinkholed the 23-year-old Sality botnet by poisoning the peer lists its infected machines trust.
Botnet takedown exposes Chinese contractor behind US agency hacks
The FBI seized QScan and QTRouter, Chinese hacking platforms behind intrusions into NASA, the Federal Reserve, and the Senate.
First malware rides legitimate car head unit updates
Kaspersky finds a downloader pushed through built-in firmware updaters of Android dashboards, tied to the MoYu Group.
Evooo1Bot borrows Mirai code to rent out routers as proxies
Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs uncovered Evooo1Bot, a Mirai-derived Linux botnet that turns hacked edge devices into SOCKS5 proxies.
Fake captchas on 2,000 hacked WordPress sites push malware
Check Point links nearly 2,000 hacked WordPress sites to fake-captcha malware delivery.
Kimwolf botnet evolves to mimic browsers with HTTP/2 flood attacks
Unit 42 documents Kimwolf v7, a rebuild that hides DDoS floods behind browser fingerprints and Ethereum domains.
New NadMesh botnet hunts exposed AI services for cloud credentials
Researchers discovered the NadMesh botnet, which targets exposed AI infrastructure to steal cloud keys and Kubernetes tokens.