Dutch Authorities Dismantle Botnet Linked to 17 Million Infected Devices

Dutch authorities have announced the takedown of a botnet that enslaved millions of infected devices, including computers, tablets, smartphones, and IoT devices, to carry out malicious attacks. The bot network, per the Dutch Politie and the National Cyber Security Center NCSC, consisted of at lea...

RondoDox Botnet Exploits Critical 2018 Vulnerability to Hijack ASUS Routers

Cybersecurity firm VulnCheck reveals hackers are using a critical 2018 vulnerability to bypass authentication and hack over a million ASUS routers...

Kimwolf DDoS Botnet Operator Arrested in Canada Over DDoS-for-Hire Attacks

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Thursday announced the arrest of a Canadian man in connection with allegedly operating a distributed denial-of-service DDoS botnet known as Kimwolf. In tandem, Jacob Butler aka Dort, 23, Ottawa, Canada, has been charged with offenses related to the developmen...

Alleged Kimwolf Botmaster ‘Dort’ Arrested, Charged in U.S. and Canada

Canadian authorities on Wednesday arrested a 23-year-old Ottawa man on suspicion of building and operating Kimwolf , a fast spreading Internet-of-Things botnet that enslaved millions of devices for use in a series of massive distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks over the past six months...

Botnet Detection on CTU-13 Using Lightweight Machine Learning Models

Botnets are among the most persistent cyber threats, enabling large-scale attacks such as spam, credential theft, and distributed denial-of-service DDoS. While deep learning approaches have recently been applied to botnet detection, they are computationally intensive and often lack...

Malicious Package

Overview color-style-utils is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that includes infostealer malware, one of which is a Shai-Hulud clone following the TeamPCP open source release, and one DDoS botnet package. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid...

Malicious Package

Overview axois-utils is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that includes infostealer malware, one of which is a Shai-Hulud clone following the TeamPCP open source release, and one DDoS botnet package. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid organizatio...

Malicious Package

Overview @deadcode09284814/axios-util is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that includes infostealer malware, one of which is a Shai-Hulud clone following the TeamPCP open source release, and one DDoS botnet package. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a...

Malicious Package

Overview chalk-tempalte is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that includes infostealer malware, one of which is a Shai-Hulud clone following the TeamPCP open source release, and one DDoS botnet package. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid...

Turla Turns Kazuar Backdoor Into Modular P2P Botnet for Persistent Access

The Russian state-sponsored hacking group known as Turla has transformed its custom backdoor Kazuar into a modular peer-to-peer P2P botnet that's engineered for stealth and persistent access to compromised hosts. Turla, per the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, is assess...

Kazuar: Anatomy of a nation-state botnet

In this article 1. Delivery 2. Module types 3. Botnet operations 4. Who is Secret Blizzard? 5. Mitigation and protection guidance 6. Microsoft Defender detections Kazuar, a sophisticated malware family attributed to the Russian state actor Secret Blizzard, has been under constant development for...

Kazuar: Anatomy of a nation-state botnet

In this article 1. Delivery 2. Module types 3. Botnet operations 4. Who is Secret Blizzard? 5. Mitigation and protection guidance 6. Microsoft Defender detections Kazuar, a sophisticated malware family attributed to the Russian state actor Secret Blizzard, has been under constant development for...

CVE-2024-45257

A Command Injection issue in the payload build page in BYOB Build Your Own Botnet 2.0 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the server via a crafted build parameter. This occurs in freeze in core/generators.py...

CVE-2024-45257

A Command Injection issue in the payload build page in BYOB Build Your Own Botnet 2.0 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the server via a crafted build parameter. This occurs in freeze in core/generators.py...

Mirai-Based xlabs_v1 Botnet Exploits ADB to Hijack IoT Devices for DDoS Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers have exposed a new Mirai-derived botnet that self-identifies as xlabsv1 and targets internet-exposed devices running Android Debug Bridge ADB to enlist them in a network capable of carrying out distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. Hunt.io, which detailed the...

⚡ Weekly Recap: AI-Powered Phishing, Android Spying Tool, Linux Exploit, GitHub RCE & More

This week, the shadows moved faster than the patches. While most teams were still triaging last month’s alerts, attackers had already turned control panels into kill switches, kernels into open doors, and open-source pipelines into silent delivery systems. The game has shifted from breach to...

Hackers Use Jenkins Access to Deploy DDoS Botnet Against Gaming Servers

A new campaign shows misconfigured Jenkins servers abused to deploy a DDoS botnet targeting gaming systems, with Valve Corporation infrastructure in focus...

Exploit for Missing Authentication for Critical Function in Cpanel

🔒 cPanel CVE-2026-41940 / nuclear.x86 Security Audit & Cleanup...

Exploit for CVE-2026-41940

cpanel-cve-2026-41940-fix One-shot detection and remediatio...

Anti-DDoS Firm Heaped Attacks on Brazilian ISPs

A Brazilian tech firm that specializes in protecting networks from distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks has been enabling a botnet responsible for an extended campaign of massive DDoS attacks against other network operators in Brazil, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The firm's chief executive...