What Is a DDoS Attack and How to Stay Safe from Malicious Traffic Schemes
What Is a DDoS Attack and How to Stay Safe from Malicious Traffic Schemes Imagine you’re driving down a highway...
Ghosts of Botnets Past, Present, and Future
‘Twas the morning of October 21st, and all through the house many IoT devices were stirring, including a connected mouse....
Beware: Zombie IoT Botnets
The ghosts and ghouls of October have come and gone, but the dangers lurking behind virtual walls have hardly disappeared....
What Drives a Ransomware Criminal? CoinVault Developers Convicted
How often do we get a chance to learn what goes on in the minds of cybercriminals? Two members of...
VPNFilter Malware Adds Capabilities to Exploit Endpoints
VPNFilter, a botnet-controlled malware that infects networking devices, was first documented by researchers from Cisco Talos. McAfee Labs also published...
VPNFilter Botnet Targets Networking Devices
VPNFilter is a botnet with capabilities to support both intelligence collection and destructive cyberattack operations. The Cisco Talos team recently notified members of the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA) of its findings and published this blog.
Necurs Botnet Leads the World in Sending Spam Traffic
In Q4 2017 we found that the Necurs and Gamut botnets comprised 97% of spam botnet traffic. (See the McAfee...
What Is a Botnet?
Robot armies on attack may sound like science fiction, but this is a security reality we’ve been facing for some...
Chinese Cybercriminals Develop Lucrative Hacking Services
Underground cybercrime profits in China have likely already exceeded US$15.1 billion (100 billion Chinese yuan); caused more than $13.8 billion...
Meet IoT_reaper: The New Malware Building a Massive Botnet Army
WannaCry, Petya, the Dyn distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack – all now infamous cyberattacks that have defined the modern threat landscape....
