eWeek

The First Linux Botnet

eSpeaks host Corey Noles sits down with Qualcomm's Craig Tellalian to explore a workplace computing transformation: the rise of AI-ready PCs. Matt Hillary, VP of Security and CISO at Drata, details ...
Threat Post

Linux Webmin Servers Under Attack by Roboto P2P Botnet

A newly-discovered peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet has been found targeting a remote code execution vulnerability in Linux Webmin servers. Vulnerable Linux Webmin servers are under active attack by a ...
TechRadar

Who remembers IRC? Clearly some hackers, as a new Linux botnet uses some incredibly old-school methods to cut costs

SSHStalker uses IRC channels and multiple bots to control infected Linux hosts Automated SSH brute-forcing rapidly spreads the botnet through cloud server infrastructures Compilers are downloaded ...
Dark Reading

PumaBot Targets Linux Devices in Latest Botnet Campaign

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 ...
HHS

DreamBus Botnet Targets Linux Systems

Zscaler's ThreatLabz research team is tracking a new botnet dubbed DreamBus that’s installing the XMRig cryptominer on powerful enterprise-class Linux and Unix systems with the goal of using their ...
Bleeping Computer

Linux Webmin Servers Being Attacked by New P2P Roboto Botnet

Linux servers running unpatched Webmin installations are under attack and slowly getting added to a new peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet dubbed Roboto by security researchers at 360 Netlab who tracked it for ...
ZDNet

New Roboto botnet emerges targeting Linux servers running Webmin

A cybercrime group is enslaving Linux servers running vulnerable Webmin apps into a new botnet that security researchers are currently tracking under the name of Roboto. The botnet's appearance dates ...
ZDNet

This Linux botnet has found a novel way of spreading to new devices

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 ...
Threat Post

Sysrv-K Botnet Targets Windows, Linux

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 ...
CSOonline

XOR: Linux-based botnet pushing 20 attacks a day

In a report released on Tuesday, Akamai has profiled several recent attacks from the XOR botnet, which is capable of DDoS attacks in excess of 150Gpbs. Researchers, after examining the more recent ...
Bleeping Computer

AVrecon malware infects 70,000 Linux routers to build botnet

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 ...