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Eleethub: A Cryptocurrency Mining Botnet with Rootkit for Self-Hiding

By Asher Davila and Yang Ji
May 18, 2020 at 9:10 AM

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Studying How Cybercriminals Prey on the COVID-19 Pandemic

By Janos Szurdi, Zhanhao Chen, Oleksii Starov, Adrian McCabe and Ruian Duan
April 22, 2020 at 6:00 AM

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Muhstik Botnet Attacks Tomato Routers to Harvest New IoT Devices

By Cong Zheng, Yang Ji and Asher Davila
January 21, 2020 at 6:00 AM

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Home & Small Office Wireless Routers Exploited to Attack Gaming Servers

By Asher Davila
October 31, 2019 at 6:00 AM

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Muhstik Botnet Exploits the Latest WebLogic Vulnerability for Cryptomining and DDoS Attacks

By Cong Zheng and Yanhui Jia
April 30, 2019 at 2:15 PM

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Mirai Compiled for New Processors Surfaces in the Wild

By Ruchna Nigam
April 8, 2019 at 6:00 AM

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Xbash Combines Botnet, Ransomware, Coinmining in Worm that Targets Linux and Windows

By Claud Xiao, Cong Zheng and Xingyu Jin
September 17, 2018 at 5:00 AM

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Multi-exploit IoT/Linux Botnets Mirai and Gafgyt Target Apache Struts, SonicWall

By Ruchna Nigam
September 9, 2018 at 6:27 PM

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Unit 42 Finds New Mirai and Gafgyt IoT/Linux Botnet Campaigns

By Ruchna Nigam
July 20, 2018 at 5:00 AM

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IoT Malware Evolves to Harvest Bots by Exploiting a Zero-day Home Router Vulnerability

By Cong Zheng, Claud Xiao and Yanhui Jia
January 11, 2018 at 1:00 PM

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New IoT/Linux Malware Targets DVRs, Forms Botnet

By Claud Xiao and Cong Zheng
April 6, 2017 at 1:00 PM

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Andromeda Botnet Targets Italy in Recent Spam Campaigns

By Josh Grunzweig and Brandon Levene
July 18, 2016 at 12:30 PM

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Locky: New Ransomware Mimics Dridex-Style Distribution

By Brandon Levene, Micah Yates and Rob Downs
February 16, 2016 at 4:20 PM

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Filmkan: Mysterious Turkish Botnet Grows Through Facebook

By Ryan Olson
February 5, 2015 at 9:05 AM

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Kuluoz Trends – October 2014

By Rob Downs
November 7, 2014 at 10:00 AM

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