The Pumpkin Eclipse(blog.lumen.com)
343 points by alexrustic | 145 comments
Lumen Black Lotus Labs report on the Pumpkin Eclipse incident, in which malware destroyed hundreds of thousands of routers at a single ISP in 2023.
#botnet on Hacker News
3 stories tagged botnet, newest first.
Uninstall the NightOwl app(robins.one)
920 points by txr | 196 comments
Blog post warning macOS users to uninstall NightOwl, a dark-mode switcher bought by TPE.FYI LLC that enrolls devices in a market-research botnet.
Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet(lecromee.github.io)
665 points by campuscodi | 237 comments
Blog post investigating how the Swing VPN mobile app uses its users' devices as a botnet to DDoS websites.