A newly discovered vulnerability in Node.js, designated CVE-2025-55182 and informally dubbed React2Shell, has become a favored weapon of botnets within mere days of its disclosure. Operators are now launching widespread attacks against vulnerable web...
A new iteration of the RondoDox botnet has been uncovered, exhibiting a dramatic escalation in both scale and technical sophistication. Whereas the original variant described in autumn 2024 exploited only a handful of vulnerabilities...
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...
A sharp surge in attacks targeting PHP servers, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and cloud gateways has been recorded by researchers from the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU). According to their findings, the escalation...
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...
CloudSEK researchers have reported a large-scale campaign leveraging a Loader-as-a-Service botnet, which over the past six months has transformed home routers and IoT devices into engines for cryptocurrency mining and Mirai-style attacks. An analysis...
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...
An unusual incident unfolded at the Spinoza campus in Amsterdam: an unknown intruder hacked into the digital payment system of five washing machines. For several weeks, students were able to use the machines free...
A European DDoS mitigation provider has been struck by an unprecedented attack, with traffic volumes peaking at 1.5 billion packets per second. The massive wave originated from thousands of compromised IoT devices and MikroTik...
Researchers at Eclypsium have recorded a sharp increase in scanning activity targeting outdated and long-abandoned network equipment. The chief danger lies in the fact that many of these attacks are being launched from already-compromised...