An international consortium of law enforcement agencies has dealt a devastating blow to one of the most formidable cybercriminal syndicates of recent epochs. At the heart of this endeavor were botnets that, for years,...
Akamai has promulgated its annual State of the Internet dossier, chronicling the landscape of applications, APIs, and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) bombardments, and has subsequently chronicled a profound metamorphosis in adversarial stratagems. The cardinal revelation...
Since the autumn of the previous year, the Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies has successfully decommissioned over 550 command-and-control servers tethered to the AISURU and Kimwolf botnets. These malevolent networks persist as...
The Kimwolf botnet has drawn intense scrutiny after researchers at QiAnXin XLab reported that it had infected more than 1.8 million Android-based devices. The compromised army includes smart TVs, set-top boxes, and tablets, all...
Microsoft has reported the largest cloud-targeted DDoS attack ever recorded, detected on one of its nodes in Australia. The company’s infrastructure automatically identified and neutralized an onslaught reaching 15.72 Tbps and nearly 3.64 billion...
Cloudflare has encountered an unexpected phenomenon: in its public ranking of the most popular domains, websites associated with the Aisuru botnet suddenly surged to the top, surpassing Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft for an...
The notorious Aisuru botnet continues to grow in destructive power — it now commands over 300,000 infected IoT devices, the majority of which are located within networks operated by major U.S. providers such as...
The newly emerged AISURU botnet has powered the largest recorded DDoS assault to date, peaking at 11.5 Tb/s. This surge shattered the spring record of 5.8 Tb/s and underscored how rapidly threats tied to...
