$100M Botnet Scheme Lands Cybercriminal 8 Years in Jail

Authorities have sentenced a hacker to eight years in prison for trafficking stolen personally identifiable information PII and online banking credentials resulting in losses totaling over $100 million. Aleksandr Brovko, 36, formerly of the Czech Republic, pleaded guilty in February to conspiracy...

Inside the Hoaxcalls Botnet: Both Success and Failure

The Hoaxcalls botnet, built to carry out large-scale distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks, has been actively in development since the beginning of the year. One of its hallmarks is that it uses different vulnerability exploits for initial compromise. Researchers, however, have discovered th...

Hoaxcalls Botnet Exploits Symantec Secure Web Gateways

Cyberattackers are targeting a post-authentication remote code-execution vulnerability in Symantec Secure Web Gateways as part of new Mirai and Hoaxcalls botnet attacks. Hoaxcalls first emerged in late March, as a variant of the Gafgyt/Bashlite family; it’s named after the domain used to host its...

Fast-Moving DDoS Botnet Exploits Unpatched ZyXel RCE Bug

A new variant of the Hoaxcalls botnet, which can be marshalled for large-scale distributed denial-of-service DDoS campaigns, is spreading via an unpatched vulnerability impacting the ZyXEL Cloud CNM SecuManager that was disclosed last month. That’s according to researchers at Radware, who also sa...