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 …