Bleeping Computer

Emotet botnet now pushes Quantum and BlackCat ransomware

While monitoring the Emotet botnet's current activity, security researchers found that the Quantum and BlackCat ransomware gangs are now using the malware to deploy their payloads. This is an ...
TechCrunch

How the FBI took down the notorious Qakbot botnet

A global law enforcement operation this week took down and dismantled the notorious Qakbot botnet, touted as the largest U.S.-led financial and technical disruption of a botnet infrastructure. Qakbot ...
Dark Reading

Sprawling Qakbot Malware Takedown Spans 700,000 Infected Machines

The infrastructure behind the infamous Qakbot malware, a favorite tool of cybercriminals far and wide, has been taken down by the Feds in an operation code-named "Duck Hunt." Official remediators also ...
The Hacker News

Kimwolf v7 Android Botnet Makes HTTP/2 DDoS Traffic Look Like Legitimate Browsing

Kimwolf v7 adds browser-like HTTP/2 DDoS floods, ENS and Tor C2 resilience, and shifts propagation to an external loader.
TechSpot

FBI shoots down Qakbot botnet used to deliver ransomware

What just happened? In close cooperation with Eurojust, the FBI has dismantled the infrastructure of a widely recognized botnet operation. Qbot, which facilitated ransomware deployments and caused ...
Krebs on Security

U.S. Hacks QakBot, Quietly Removes Botnet Infections

The U.S. government today announced a coordinated crackdown against QakBot, a complex malware family used by multiple cybercrime groups to lay the groundwork for ransomware infections. The ...
Bleeping Computer

Botnet sent millions of emails in LockBit Black ransomware campaign

Since April, millions of phishing emails have been sent through the Phorpiex botnet to conduct a large-scale LockBit Black ransomware campaign. As New Jersey's Cybersecurity and Communications ...