ZDNet

Outlaw hackers return with cryptocurrency mining botnet

The Outlaw hacking group has reemerged and is once again on the radar of cybersecurity researchers following the detection of a botnet attacking systems to mine for cryptocurrency. The botnet spreads ...
Bleeping Computer

Spam Botnet Tracked Down to Malicious PHP Script Found on 5,000 Hacked Sites

A malicious PHP script found on over 5,000 compromised websites has been fingered as the source of a large-scale spam campaign that has been silently redirecting users to web pages hosting diet and ...
ZDNet

WordPress botnet deploys anti-adblocker script to make sure its spammy ads are profitable

The threat actor behind the internet's largest WordPress botnet is using an anti-adblocker script to make sure the ads they inject on hacked sites are showing up in users' browsers and generating a ...
Threat Post

Shellshock Exploits Targeting SMTP Servers at Webhosts

SANS Internet Storm Center reports attacks against SMTP servers using Shellshock exploits to create a DDoS botnet. The persistence of the Shellshock vulnerability remains high more than a month after ...
CSOonline

Old CGI-PHP vulnerability used to spread Bitcoin botnet

In 2012, researchers discovered a flaw in some PHP builds that would enable a remote attacker to execute commands on the server, if PHP was configured as a CGI script (PHP-CGI) at the time. Now, it’s ...