Dark Nexus: A New Emerging IoT Botnet Malware Spotted in the Wild

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new emerging IoT botnet threat that leverages compromised smart devices to stage 'distributed denial-of-service' attacks, potentially triggered on-demand through platforms offering DDoS-for-hire services. The botnet, named "darknexus" by Bitdefender...

Virus Bulletin 2019: Geost Android Botnet Goes After Millions of Euros

LONDON — A powerful Android botnet dubbed Geost has been spotted targeting Russian citizens, with the end goal of distributing a banking trojan to victims. The botnet has infected more than 800,000 Android devices, controlling several million Euros held in five banks, according to researchers fro...

TheMoon Rises Again, With a Botnet-as-a-Service Threat

TheMoon, an IoT botnet targeting home routers and modems, is entering a new phase, as it were: It has added a previously undocumented module that allows it to be sold as-a-service to other malicious actors. This has already had significant real-world consequences, according to CenturyLink Threat...

Rapidly Growing Router Botnet Takes Advantage of 5-Year-Old Flaw

A fresh botnet is spreading across the landscape, targeting router equipment. So far, hundreds of thousands of bot endpoints have already been identified, and they’re apparently being marshaled to send out massive amounts of spam. The botnet first emerged in September, according to 360Netlab...

Best security practices for Trusted TLS Intermediary

According to Google over 75% of public websites are accessed over encrypted connections using HTTPS, with the use of HTTP diminishing. As expected, the bad actors are following the crowds, and using HTTPS to hide their activities. So how can security solutions such as ETP Threat Protector detect...

Juniper Networks Junos OS Bind Denial of Service Vulnerability

Denial of Service vulnerability in Junos ISC Bind version. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/o:juniper:junos"; if...