Insecure Internet-connected devices have aided different types of cybercrime for years, most common being DDoS and spam campaigns. But cybercriminals have now shifted toward a profitable scheme where botnets do not just launch DDoS or spam—they mine cryptocurrencies as well.Smominru, an infamous cryptocurrency-mining and credential-stealing botnet, has become one of the rapidly … [Read more...] about Smominru Botnet Indiscriminately Hacked Over 90,000 Computers Just Last Month
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New Brute-Force Botnet Targeting Over 1.5 Million RDP Servers Worldwide
Security researchers have discovered an ongoing sophisticated botnet campaign that is currently brute-forcing more than 1.5 million publicly accessible Windows RDP servers on the Internet.Dubbed GoldBrute, the botnet scheme has been designed in a way to escalate gradually by adding every new cracked system to its network, forcing them to further find new available RDP servers … [Read more...] about New Brute-Force Botnet Targeting Over 1.5 Million RDP Servers Worldwide
Ukrainian Charged With Launching 100 Million Malicious Ads
Oleksii Petrovich Ivanov has been extradited in the U.S. after allegedly launching malvertising campaigns that caused victims to view malicious ads on more than 100 million occasions. Source link … [Read more...] about Ukrainian Charged With Launching 100 Million Malicious Ads