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 ...

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.

Image: Getty/Virojt Changyencham. 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 ...

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 DOJ says their access to the botnet’s control panel revealed that Qakbot had been used to infect more than 700,000 machines in the past year alone, including 200,000 systems in the United ...

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.

A 20-year-old from Vancouver, Washington was indicted last week on federal hacking charges and for allegedly operating the "Satori" botnet, a malware strain unleashed last year that infected ...

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.