Experts Reports Sharp Increase in Automated Botnet Attacks Targeting PHP Servers and IoT Devices

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a spike in automated attacks targeting PHP servers, IoT devices, and cloud gateways by various botnets such as Mirai, Gafgyt, and Mozi. "These automated campaigns exploit known CVE vulnerabilities and cloud misconfigurations to gain control over...

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CVE-2025-34130

CVE-2025-34130 affects LILIN Digital Video Recorder (DVR) devices up to firmware version 2.0b60_20200207. An unauthenticated arbitrary file read via the endpoint /z/zbin/net_html.cgi allows reading sensitive files such as /zconf/service.xml , enabling further attacks including command injection. ...

Unpatched Edimax Camera Flaw Exploited for Mirai Botnet Attacks Since Last Year

An unpatched security flaw impacting the Edimax IC-7100 network camera is being exploited by threat actors to deliver Mirat botnet malware variants since at least May 2024. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-1316 CVSS v4 score: 9.3, a critical operating system command injection flaw that a...

A Brand-New Botnet Is Delivering Record-Size DDoS Attacks

Eleven11bot infects webcams and video recorders, with a large concentration in the US...

Unpatched AVTECH IP Camera Flaw Exploited by Hackers for Botnet Attacks

A years-old high-severity flaw impacting AVTECH IP cameras has been weaponized by malicious actors as a zero-day to rope them into a botnet. CVE-2024-7029 CVSS score: 8.7, the vulnerability in question, is a "command injection vulnerability found in the brightness function of AVTECH closed-circui...

Opportunities and Threats – IoT and the Rise of 5G

The Internet of Things IoT is expanding rapidly. The number of connected devices in homes, businesses, and vehicles across the world is expected to increase from around 8 billion today to over 24 billion within the next decade, with much of this growth enabled by the introduction of 5G. This...

Botnet Attackers Turn to Vulnerable IoT Devices

The vast number of Internet-of-Things IoT devices are proving to be lucrative for botnet operators to carry out various attacks – from sending spam to launching harmful distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks, according to Derek Manky, Chief of Security Insights & Global Threat Alliances at...

Black Hat 2020: Using Botnets to Manipulate Energy Markets for Big Profits

Researchers are warning that a new class of botnets could be marshaled and used to manipulate energy markets via zombie armies of power-hungry connected devices such as air conditioners, heaters, dryers and digital thermostats. A coordinated attack could cause an energy stock index to predictably...

Hackers Could Use IoT Botnets to Manipulate Energy Markets

With access to just 50,000 high-wattage smart devices, attackers could make a bundle off of causing minor fluctuations...

Mootbot Botnet Targets Fiber Routers with Dual Zero-Days

The Mootbot botnet has been using a pair of zero-day exploits to compromise multiple types of fiber routers. According to researchers, other botnets have attempted to do the same, but have so far failed. According to researchers at NetLab 360, the operators of the Mootbot botnet in late February...

14 Ways to Evade Botnet Malware Attacks On Your Computers

Cybercriminals are busy innovators, adapting their weapons and attack strategies, and ruthlessly roaming the web in search of their next big score. Every manner of sensitive information, such as confidential employee records, customers' financial data, protected medical documents, and government...

14 Ways to Evade Botnet Malware Attacks On Your Computers

Cybercriminals are busy innovators, adapting their weapons and attack strategies, and ruthlessly roaming the web in search of their next big score. Every manner of sensitive information, such as confidential employee records, customers' financial data, protected medical documents, and government...

APT33 Mounts Focused, Highly Targeted Botnet Attacks Against U.S. Victims

The Iran-linked, espionage-focused advanced threat group known as APT33 has been spotted using more than a dozen obfuscated botnets to carry out narrowly targeted attacks against government and academic targets in the Middle East, the U.S. and Asia. Each botnet, linked to its own...

Hackers conducting botnet attacks through 20k hacked WordPress sites

By Uzair Amir A newly published research from Defiant, a WordPress security firm, reveals that there is a botnet hunting for WordPress sites using over 20,000 already compromised WordPress sites. As the new sites are infected, these automatically become part of the bot army and start acting on th...

Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2018. Story of the year: miners

Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2018. Statistics Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2018. Top security stories Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2018. Threat Predictions for 2019 Cryptocurrency miners that infect the computers of unsuspecting users essentially operate according to the same business model as...

ThreatList: Fewer Big DDoS Attacks in Q3, Overall Rate Holds Steady

When it comes to distributed denial of service DDoS attacks, the third quarter of 2018 marked an apparent lull in the action, with fewer huge, multi-day attacks than in previous quarters. Researchers however warn against having a false sense of security: The total number of attacks in the quarter...

State of the Internet Security - Credential Stuffing

Credential stuffing, and the botnets behind this activity, is the primary focus of the State of the Internet Security Report, Issue 4, 2018. Credential stuffing, the use of botnets to try to login to a site with stolen or randomly created login information, isn't a new phenomenon, but it is one...

Crypto Miners May Be the ‘New Payload of Choice’ for Attackers

Ransomware has been a favorite and time-tested tool for cybercriminals, but the rise of cryptocurrency has given them a broad new target with key strategic advantages, leading to a sharp uptick in crypto mining botnets, researchers at Cisco Talos say. Attackers “are beginning to recognize that th...

Honeypots and the Internet of Things

There were a number of incidents in 2016 that triggered increased interest in the security of so-called IoT or 'smart' devices. They included, among others, the record-breaking DDoS attacks against the French hosting provider OVH and the US DNS provider Dyn. These attacks are known to have been...