The Independent on MSN

Criminals hijack devices to create never-before-seen cyber weapon

Criminals hijack thousands of devices to create never-before-seen cyber weapon - Victims of the KadNap botnet are spread ...

Law enforcement shuts down botnet made of tens of thousands of hacked routers

An international law enforcement operation shut down a service called SocksEscort, which allegedly helped cybercriminals all over the world launch ransomware and DDoS attacks, as well as distribute ...
The Hacker News

KadNap Malware Infects 14,000+ Edge Devices to Power Stealth Proxy Botnet

KadNap botnet infects 14,000+ routers using DHT-based P2P control while ClipXDaemon hijacks crypto wallets on Linux X11.
Security Boulevard

How Threat Actors Turned OpenClaw Into a Scraping Botnet

How did OpenClaw become botnet infrastructure so quickly? DataDome analyzes the hijacked AI agents scraping sites at scale ...
TMCnet

NETSCOUT Reveals Qualitative Shifts in DDoS Attack Sophistication, Infrastructure Capacity, and Threat Actor Capabilities

Outbound Attacks Impact Broadband and Mobile Services - Extensive direct-path attacks revealed that compromised IoT and customer-premises equipment can generate outbound floods exceeding 1 Tbps, ...
SDxCentral

HPE OneView under threat from IoT botnet campaign

A recently disclosed vulnerability in the OneView program from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has become the subject of a botnet attack. The malicious campaign targets IoT devices and web servers ...
The Hacker News

Aeternum C2 Botnet Stores Encrypted Commands on Polygon Blockchain to Evade Takedown

Researchers detail Aeternum C2 storing botnet commands on Polygon blockchain, while DSLRoot operates 300 residential proxy ...