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Baby Golang-Based Botnet Already Pulling in $3K/Month for Operators

Newborn as it is, the Kraken botnet has already spread like wildfire, thanks to the malware’s author tinkering away over the past few months, adding more infostealers and backdoors. There’s a new, ...
Network World

Leak of ZeusVM malware building tool might cause botnet surge

The Internet could see a new wave of botnets based on the ZeusVM banking Trojan after the tools needed to build and customize the malware program were published online for free. The source code for ...
Dark Reading

Exposed Docker Daemons Fuel DDoS Botnet

A recently uncovered dedicated denial-of-service (DDoS) for-hire botnet highlights how attackers are repurposing cloud-native development tools to build infrastructure that looks and behaves like ...
Dark Reading

Mirai Botnets Exploit Flaw in Wazuh Security Platform

Two separate Mirai botnet campaigns are exploiting a critical flaw in a somewhat unlikely target. The Akamai Security Intelligence and Response Team recently observed exploitation of CVE-2025-24016, a ...
Bleeping Computer

Critical Ruckus RCE flaw exploited by new DDoS botnet malware

A new malware botnet named 'AndoryuBot' is targeting a critical-severity flaw in the Ruckus Wireless Admin panel to infect unpatched Wi-Fi access points for use in DDoS attacks. Tracked as ...