The top five categories of Bad Bot attacks are fake account creation, account takeovers, scraping, account management, and in-product abuse.
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The top five categories of Bad Bot attacks are fake account creation, account takeovers, scraping, account management, and in-product abuse.
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US government announces the takedown of the IPStorm proxy service botnet and the guilty plea of its creator, a Russian/Moldovan national.
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Researchers warn attackers are targeting MySQL servers and Docker hosts to plant malware capable of launching distributed DDoS attacks.
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The recent shutdown of the Mozi botnet is believed to have been carried out by its creators, possibly forced by Chinese authorities.
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A Mirai botnet variant tracked as IZ1H9 has updated its arsenal with 13 exploits targeting various routers, IP cameras, and other IoT devices.
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U.S. law enforcement announce the disruption of the notorious Qakbot cybercrime operation and the release of an auto-disinfection tool to 700,000 infected machines.
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Multiple DDoS botnets have been observed targeting CVE-2023-28771, a Zyxel firewall vulnerability patched in April.
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The recently identified Golang-based GoBruteforcer botnet is targeting web servers running FTP, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, and Postgres services.
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