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.

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 ...

Newborn as it is, the Kraken botnet has already spread like wildfire, thanks to the malware's author tinkering away over the past few months, adding more infostealers and backdoors.

Security researchers have uncovered what could be the biggest ever botnet, capable of “crippling digital assaults” that could take down entire companies. Hackers performed what appeared to be ...

A newly identified botnet is targeting unpatched applications running on top of Linux systems, Check Point security researchers said in a report today. First seen in November 2020, the FreakOut ...

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.

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

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 ...

The botnet was flogged as part a botnet-for-hire service in which the criminal custodians of Necurs would sell or rent access to the infected computer devices to other cybercriminals, researchers ...

Botnet mining is the illicit practice of using hijacked processing power from other people's internet-connected devices to mine cryptocurrency.

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.

In January 2018, Nexus Zeta changed the login page for his botnet control panel that he used to remotely control his hacked routers to include a friendly backhanded reference to this author: ...