Kimwolf Android botnet abuses residential proxies to infect internal devices

The Kimwolf botnet, an Android variant of the Aisuru malware, has grown to more than two million hosts, most of them infected ...
Futurism

Woman Hacks “Tinder for Nazis,” Tricks the Racist Users Into Falling in Love With AI Chatbots

A hacker targeted a white supremacist dating website, lured users with an AI chatbot, and deleted the platform entirely live ...
IEEE

A Systematic Literature Review: Classifying IoT Botnet Data Features Based on Its Lifecycle

Abstract: As the Internet of Things (IoT) becomes increasingly indispensable across various domains, the connectivity between humans, machines, and devices intensifies. With the surge in IoT devices ...
IEEE

Botnet Identification on Twitter: A Novel Clustering Approach Based on Similarity

Abstract: Due to Twitter’s potential reach and influence, malicious automated accounts and services have been operating and growing without control. One of the most recognizable is the bot, a piece of ...
theregister

As humanoid robots enter the mainstream, security pros flag the risk of botnets on legs

Interview Imagine botnets in physical form and you've got a pretty good idea of what could go wrong with the influx of AI-infused humanoid robots expected to integrate into society over the next few ...
SecurityWeek

New ‘Broadside’ Botnet Poses Risk to Shipping Companies

The botnet attempts to steal credentials from infected TBK DVR devices, in addition to abusing them to launch DDoS attacks. The newly identified Mirai-based Broadside botnet has been targeting ...