Botnets
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Botnet targets vulnerable Microsoft Exchange servers
By ITPro published
News Cryptocurrency-mining botnet Prometei targeting same flaws as Hafnium attacks

Purple Fox malware can now spread between Windows devices
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News The rootkit has added self-propagating capabilities to its arsenal with roughly 100,000 machines already infected

Europol takes down 'dangerous' Emotet botnet
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News Experts urge businesses to stay vigilant as it's unlikely Emotet is down for good

CMS platforms succumb to KashmirBlack botnet as businesses rush online
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News Businesses warned to prioritise security as coronavirus forces many to ply their trade digitally

IoT botnet exploiting two zero-day flaws in Tenda routers
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News The Ttint botnet is based heavily on the Mirai malware and includes 12 protocols for remote access

IoT botnets are on the rise and 5G isn’t helping anything
By Connor Jones published
News Botnets are more common and coming in more diverse strains than ever before

Botnet spreads 30,000 sextortion emails in an hour
By Bobby Hellard published
News Recipients ordered to pay $800 in Bitcoin under threat of compromising photos leaking online

Equifax named the most Googled data breach of all time
By Connor Jones published
News 2014's Heartbleed takes the top spot for cyber threat searches
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