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Three million electric toothbrushes were reportedly used for disruptive DDoS attacks, but cybersecurity experts questioned the claims.
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After hundreds of media outlets worldwide repeated the false claim that a botnet of three million toothbrushes attacked a Swiss company, the cybersecurity firm at the centre of the story has now issued a statement. Continue reading Tooth be told: Toothbrush DDoS attack claim was lost in translation, says Fortinet
No, three million smart toothbrushes didn’t launch a DDoS attack against a Swiss company. Continue reading The toothbrush DDoS attack: How misinformation spreads in the cybersecurity world
Andy Cuthbertson reports: Hackers have infected millions of smart toothbrushes with malware in order to carry out a massive cyber attack against a Swiss company, according to reports. The internet-connected toothbrushes were linked together in somethin… Continue reading Millions of hacked toothbrushes used in Swiss cyber attack (1)
The FBI spotted this state-sponsored attack that highlights how home office setups can be overlooked when it comes to employees’ cybersecurity. Continue reading Botnet Attack Targeted Routers: A Wake-Up Call for Securing Remote Employees’ Hardware
The FritzFrog cryptomining botnet has new potential for growth: a recently analyzed variant of the bot is exploiting the Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) and PwnKit (CVE-2021-4034) vulnerabilities for lateral movement and privilege escalation. The FritzFrog … Continue reading FritzFrog botnet exploits Log4Shell, PwnKit vulnerabilities
The FBI has disrupted the KV botnet, used by People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored hackers (aka “Volt Typhoon”) to target US-based critical infrastructure organizations. A botnet for probing critical infrastructure organizations … Continue reading FBI disrupts Chinese botnet used for targeting US critical infrastructure
Akamai flags six zero-day vulnerabilities in Hitron DVRs exploited to ensnare devices in the InfectedSlurs botnet.
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By Deeba Ahmed
The AndroxGh0st malware was initially reported in December 2022.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: FBI: Androxgh0st Malware Building Mega-Botnet for Credential Theft
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Netscout sees over one million IPs conducting reconnaissance scanning on the web due to increase in use of cheap or free cloud servers.
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