Cloudflare says that it blocked the 7.3 Tbps of junk traffic in mid-May — the largest DDoS attack to happen in recorded history.

In March, Nokia reported that a botnet dubbed Eleven11bot delivered a DOS with a peak of 6.5Tbps. In May, KrebsonSecurity said it came under a DDos that peaked at 6.3Tbps.

The FBI has issued a warning about a widespread cyber threat involving BADBOX 2.0, a botnet that hijacks devices like streaming sticks, digital projectors and smart car systems.

We investigated 12 years DNS query logs of our campus network and identified phenomena of malicious botnet domain generation algorithm (DGA) traffic. DGA-based botnets are difficult to detect using ...

Zeus North America Mining Corp. samples 1.3 grams per tonne Gold, 11.8 grams per tonne Silver and 135 parts per million Antimony at the Selway Property, Idaho ...

The continued growth of the Internet has resulted in the increasing sophistication of toolkit and methods to conduct computer attacks and intrusions that are easy to use and publicly available to ...

A widespread malware campaign is affecting millions of smart home devices, including TVs, streaming boxes, and tablets running Android software. A recent FBI alert warns consumers about the BADBOX ...

The first botnet exploiting CVE-2025-24016 was detected by Akamai in March and used a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit that was published for the vulnerability in late February.

Potential attackers could exploit a critical flaw to remotely execute code by uploading what researchers from Akamai called an “unsanitized dictionary.” The Mirai botnet, initially discovered back in ...

A critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting Wazuh servers has been exploited by Mirai botnets, Akamai warned on Monday. Wazuh is a free and open source security platform designed for ...