Since at least May 2021, stealthy Linux malware called AVrecon was used to infect over 70,000 Linux-based small office/home office (SOHO) routers and add them to a botnet designed to steal bandwidth ...

This article is exceedingly vague. Are these linux boxes actual PC's running linux, or are they routers, IoT appliances and the like? Lizardsquad ran a DDoS botnet on routers that ran on unpatched ...

A new botnet has been slowly growing over the past year by brute-forcing SSH logins and deploying cryptomining malware on Linux servers. The main bot client is based on the old Mirai worm whose source ...

A new peer-to-peer botnet named Panchan appeared in the wild around March 2022, targeting Linux servers in the education sector to mine cryptocurrency. Panchan is empowered with SSH worm functions ...

Dan Goodin warns of a “Linux botnet”: A security researcher has discovered a cluster of infected Linux servers that have been corralled into a special ops botnet of sorts and used to distribute ...

A novel Go-based Linux botnet, dubbed "PumaBot," has been observed targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices. PumaBot differentiates itself from typical botnets by remotely retrieving a list of ...

Linux users need to be watch out of a new peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet that spreads between networks using stolen SSH keys and runs its crypto-mining malware in a device's memory. The Panchan P2P botnet ...

Researchers warn of a new worm that’s infecting Linux servers by brute-forcing and stealing SSH credentials. The hijacked servers are joined in a botnet and are used to mine cryptocurrency by loading ...

Microsoft researchers say they are tracking a botnet that is leveraging bugs in the Spring Framework and WordPress plugins. Unpatched vulnerabilities in the Spring Framework and WordPress plugins are ...