The cybercriminals behind the crypto mining Stantinko botnet have devised some ingenious methods to evade detection. Malware analyst Vladislav Hrčka from cybersecurity firm ESET sounded almost ...

Since May 2018, a malware botnet has been launching brute-force attacks against Microsoft SQL (MSSQL) databases to take over admin accounts and then install cryptocurrency mining scripts on the ...

Researchers warn of a spike in the cryptocurrency-mining botnet since August 2020. Researchers are warning of a recent dramatic uptick in the activity of the Lemon Duck cryptocurrency-mining botnet, ...

ESET researchers recently discovered a previously undocumented botnet that we have named VictoryGate. It has been active since at least May 2019 and, since then, three different variants of the ...

Analysts from security firm Trend Micro said in a report today that they've spotted a malware botnet that collects and steals Docker and AWS credentials. Cyber attacks and malware are one of the ...

A notorious cryptocurrency mining botnet has begun targeting misconfigured Docker APIs, according to CrowdStrike. LemonDuck has been observed exploiting ProxyLogon vulnerabilities in Microsoft ...

Slovakian cybersecurity firm ESET has reported some success in disrupting the workings of a previously undetected Monero-mining botnet in Latin America. Slovakian cybersecurity firm ESET has reported ...

XMRogue would let defenders submit invalid mining job results from infected computers to get a proxy server banned from the botnet. For years, CSOs have been fighting botnets that are stealing ...

The operators of the Stantinko botnet have expanded their toolset with a new means of profiting from the computers under their control. The roughly half-million-strong botnet – known to have been ...

In the before-times – the heady days of 2017 when the prices of both Bitcoin and Ethereum skyrocketed and seemed immune to gravity – several well-known companies boosted their value by claiming to ...

Google has taken action to disrupt a botnet that's infected 1 million devices, the company announced via blog post on Tuesday. Google also announced a lawsuit targeting the botnet's alleged operators.

The RapperBot campaign is bringing in some fresh talent to its arsenal of malware beats, adding cryptomining capability to its existing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet malware in order to ...