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 ...

A new Mirai-based malware botnet named 'InfectedSlurs' has been exploiting two zero-day remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities to infect routers and video recorder (NVR) devices. The malware ...

Delivering more proof that the Log4Shell vulnerability is endemic, Akamai researchers detected botnet malware updated to use the flaw as an infection vector, supplementing its usual remote login brute ...

A new variant of an advanced botnet called "FritzFrog" has been spreading via Log4Shell. It's been more than two years since the critical vulnerability in Log4j was first unleashed unto this earth, ...

RondoDox botnet exploits 56 vulnerabilities across 30+ internet-connected device types Its “exploit shotgun” approach is noisy, attracting defenders but compromising diverse hardware Patching devices, ...

A malware botnet is exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in end-of-life GeoVision devices to compromise and recruit them for likely DDoS or cryptomining attacks. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2024-11120 ...

Old TP-Link router flaw is being abused again The threat actors are building out a botnet named Ballista They are operating ...

Security researchers have uncovered a new Mirai-based botnet that uses zero-day exploits for industrial routers and smart home devices to spread. The offensively named “gayfemboy” botnet was first ...

FortiGuard Labs, the research arm of security firm Fortinet, has uncovered a significant evolution in the IZ1H9 Mirai-based DDoS campaign. Discovered in September and described in an advisory ...

The malware has added exploits for more web applications and devices to its arsenal and some of them seem to be inherited from an older botnet called Mozi. Androxgh0st, a botnet known to steal cloud ...