4 stories tagged botnets, newest first.
780 points by speckx | 504 comments
KrebsOnSecurity article on research showing generic TV streaming boxes rent out users' internet connections and spoof mobile phones to commit ad fraud on AI-generated sites.
464 points by speckx | 291 comments
News report that Microsoft Azure mitigated a record 15.72 Tbps DDoS attack from the Aisuru botnet using about 500,000 IP addresses.
371 points by todsacerdoti | 225 comments
Blog post by Jan Wildeboer, second in a series, arguing the web is broken by botnets, likely covering apps embedding SDKs that turn user devices into scraping proxies.
476 points by SofianeHamlaoui | 315 comments
Blog post describing observations, attacker commands, and malware samples (e.g. BASHLITE/Gafgyt) collected from running an SSH honeypot for 30 days.