Because the botnet's automated login attempts aren't directed at the WordPress login panel, but instead at the WordPress XML-RPC authentication mechanism, changing a site's admin panel URL won't help.

There’s a new, still-under-development, Golang-based botnet called Kraken with a level of brawn that belies its youth: It’s using the SmokeLoader malware loader to spread like wildfire and is ...

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A new version of the Miori botnet added protection to the login panel of its command and control server, hanging a "not welcome" message for connections likely coming from a security researcher.

Researchers at Akamai Technologies Inc. today said they have discovered a new peer-to-peer botnet and SSH worm that has been actively breaching Linux servers.Dubbed "Panchan," the botnet and SSH ...

The botnet also uses a “godmode” communication and admin panel that Akamai researchers reverse-engineered to examine the malware’s effectiveness and spread.

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A malware botnet named 'Pumpkin Eclipse' performed a mysterious destructive event in 2023 that took 600,000 office/home office (SOHO) internet routers offline, according to a new report by ...

The control panel is the Web application that runs on the command-and-control server and is used to receive and send data to ZeusVM-infected computers. It’s needed to manage the botnet.

The attack was measured at 6.3 terabits of data per second (Tbps) – roughly 10 times the size of the notorious Mirai botnet that caused massive disruption throughout the world in 2016.

Another crypto-jacking botnet named Sysrv-hello began making its rounds in December 2020. Sysrv-hello targeted enterprise web applications and deployed on both Windows and Linux systems.