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Up-And-Coming Botnet Uses Same Malware Kit As Defunct Mariposa

A financial-fraud botnet built with the same malware kit used in the now-defunct Mariposa botnet remains active after arrests this month of two Eastern European men who allegedly ran it. Researchers ...
Forbes

Android TV Users Beware: Vo1d Malware Botnet Now Controls 1.6M Devices

Cybercriminals are constantly evolving their methods, and the latest example of this is the alarming spread of the Vo1d malware botnet. This highly sophisticated malware has now infected 1,590,299 ...
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Over one million Android devices infected with password-stealing, pre-installed botnet malware — how to stay safe

Researchers at HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence team worked alongside Google, Trend Micro, The Shadowserver Foundation and others to disrupt the largest botnet of infected connected TV devices – ...
Dark Reading

Cops Swarm Global Cybercrime Botnet Infrastructure in 2 Massive Ops

Europol and the US Department of Justice are claiming big wins against a large swath of the global cybercrime botnet infrastructure. Europol coordinated the international effort to neutralize dropper ...
Computer Weekly

Europol sting operation smokes multiple botnets

Some of the most prominent malware-dropping botnets in operation today, including Bumblebee, IcedID, Pikabot, Smokeloader, SystemBC and Trickbot, have been disrupted in a coordinated law enforcement ...
Bleeping Computer

Mirai DDoS malware variant expands targets with 13 router exploits

A Mirai-based DDoS (distributed denial of service) malware botnet tracked as IZ1H9 has added thirteen new payloads to target Linux-based routers and routers from D-Link, Zyxel, TP-Link, TOTOLINK, and ...