A DDoS attack that launched 29.7 Tbps was just thwarted by Cloudflare, and its the biggest DDoS attack in history

The Aisuru botnet, a network of compromised and malicious Internet of Things (IoT) devices, has mounted a record-breaking ...

This devious botnet tried a trial run during the recent AWS outage - so when will it be back?

Shortly after ShadowV2’s test run, Azure was hit with the “largest-ever” cloud-based DDOS attack, carried out by the Aisuru ...
ZDNet

FritzFrog botnet returns to attack healthcare, education, government sectors

The FritzFrog botnet has reappeared with a new P2P campaign, showing growth of 10x within only a month. FritzFrog is a peer-to-peer botnet discovered in January 2020. Over a period of eight months, ...
Network World

How a Botnet Gets Its Name

There is a new kid in town in the world of botnets – isn’t there always? A heavyweight spamming botnet known as Festi has only been tracked by researchers with Message Labs Intelligence since August, ...

Aisuru botnet behind new record-breaking 29.7 Tbps DDoS attack

In just three months, the massive Aisuru botnet launched more than 1,300 distributed denial-of-service attacks, one of them ...
Yahoo

How the FBI took down the notorious Qakbot botnet

A global law enforcement operation this week took down and dismantled the notorious Qakbot botnet, touted as the largest U.S.-led financial and technical disruption of a botnet infrastructure. Qakbot ...
Threat Post

AT&T Takes Steps to Mitigate Botnet Found Inside Its Network

AT&T is battling a modular malware called EwDoor on 5,700 VoIP servers, but it could have a larger wildcard certificate problem. AT&T is taking action to take down a botnet that had set up shop inside ...
Network World

How big is the botnet problem?

How big is the botnet problem? Watchdog organization Shadowserver Foundation calls it “gigantic.” Gigantic. Watchdog organization Shadowserver Foundation monitors the number of detected ...