A new Internet-of-Things (IoT) botnet called Kimwolf has spread to more than 2 million devices, forcing infected systems to participate in massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and to relay other …
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The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network – Krebs on Security
by David Walker
The story you are reading is a series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide security advisory. The vulnerability at issue has been exploited for months already, and …
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Cloudflare Scrubs Aisuru Botnet from Top Domains List – Krebs on Security
by David Walker
For the past week, domains associated with the massive Aisuru botnet have repeatedly usurped Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft in Cloudflare’s public ranking of the most frequently requested websites. Cloudflare …
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Aisuru Botnet Shifts from DDoS to Residential Proxies – Krebs on Security
by David Walker
Aisuru, the botnet responsible for a series of record-smashing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks this year, recently was overhauled to support a more low-key, lucrative and sustainable business: Renting hundreds of …
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DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS – Krebs on Security
by David Walker
The world’s largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices hosted on U.S. Internet providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon, …
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New Win-DDoS Flaws Let Attackers Turn Public Domain Controllers into DDoS Botnet via RPC, LDAP
by David Walker
Aug 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security A novel attack technique could be weaponized to rope thousands of public domain controllers (DCs) around the world to create a malicious botnet …