December 2025, the RondoDox botnet operators have been targeting Next.js servers impacted by the React2Shell vulnerability.

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In 2024 alone, botnets accounted for 29% of all observed malware, reclaiming their spot at the top of the cyberthreat landscape, according to ForeScout Technologies Inc.’s latest analysis of 900 ...

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Botnets often make the cybersecurity headlines – but they’re far from the Skynet nightmare that you’d assume at first glance.

For nearly a month, a new botnet has been slowly growing in the shadows, feasting on unsecured Apache Hadoop servers, and planting bots on vulnerable servers to be used for future DDoS attacks. First ...

Distributed denial of service attacks are becoming more powerful, but the Departments of Commerce and Homeland Security have urged agencies to lead by example in combating them. Phil Goldstein is a ...

Threat actors have been observed exploiting a critical vulnerability, CVE-2023-46604, in Apache systems. Over the past few weeks, Fortiguard Labs identified multiple threat actors leveraging this ...

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 botnet ...