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...
The cybercriminals orchestrating the Kimwolf botnet appear intent on flaunting a truly monumental acquisition. A screenshot has surfaced online purportedly demonstrating their infiltration of the control panel for Badbox 2.0, one of the world’s...
It has surreptitiously infiltrated households, corporate offices, and even sovereign governmental networks, and now commands millions of devices across the globe. A nascent IoT botnet christened Kimwolf has already compromised over 2 million gadgets,...
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...
When you procure an inexpensive, unbranded Android TV box, connect it to your television, and relegate it to the periphery of your attention for years, you may unwittingly be harboring a silent sentinel. Within...
More than two million infected devices worldwide—this is the scale of the new botnet known as Kimwolf, according to an assessment published by Synthient. The countries reporting the highest number of infections include Vietnam,...
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...
