Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Check Point Research has reported a surge in attacks on a vulnerability in HPE OneView, driven by the Linux-based RondoDox botnet

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a spike in automated attacks targeting PHP servers, IoT devices, and cloud gateways by various botnets such as Mirai, Gafgyt, and Mozi

Malware campaigns distributing the RondoDox botnet have expanded their targeting focus to exploit more than 50 vulnerabilities across over 30 vendors

Trend™ Research and ZDI Threat Hunters have identified a large-scale RondoDox botnet campaign exploiting over 50 vulnerabilities across more than 30 vendors, including flaws first seen in Pwn2Own contests.

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a malware campaign that's targeting security flaws in TBK digital video recorders (DVRs) and Four-Faith routers to rope the devices into a new botnet called RondoDox

Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a new campaign that's actively exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in Langflow to deliver the Flodrix botnet malware

The open-source XDR/SIEM provider’s servers are in other botnets’ crosshairs too Cybercriminals are trying to spread multiple Mirai variants by exploiting a critical Wazuh vulnerability, researchers say – the first reported active attacks since the code execution bug was disclosed.…

Espionage? Botnets? Trying to exploit a zero-day? Someone or something is probing devices made by Juniper Networks and Palo Alto Networks, and researchers think it could be evidence of espionage attempts, attempts to build a botnet, or an effort to exploit zero-day vulnerabilities.…

Unpatched TP-Link Archer routers have become the target of a new botnet campaign dubbed Ballista, according to new findings from the Cato CTRL team

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a new large-scale campaign that exploits security flaws in AVTECH IP cameras and Huawei HG532 routers to rope the devices into a Mirai botnet variant dubbed Murdoc_Botnet

A years-old high-severity flaw impacting AVTECH IP cameras has been weaponized by malicious actors as a zero-day to rope them into a botnet

The threat actors behind the CatDDoS malware botnet have exploited over 80 known security flaws in various software over the past three months to infiltrate vulnerable devices and co-opt them into a botnet for conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks

Kaspersky Says It Spotted QakBot Operators Exploiting the Flaw in AprilMicrosoft issued a patch Tuesday for a Windows zero-day vulnerability that security researchers say operators of the QakBot botnet and other hackers actively exploited. The elevation of privilege vulnerability flaw is rated "important" on the CVSS scale.

FortiGuard Labs Identifies Botnet Exploiting Decade-Old D-Link VulnerabilityHackers are taking advantage of D-Link home routers left unpatched for a decade and turning them into a newly formed botnet researchers dubbed "Goldoon." The vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands remotely via the proprietary Home Network Administration Protocol.

Botnet Looks for Vulnerable Internal Network MachinesDelivering more proof that the Log4Shell vulnerability is endemic, Akamai researchers detected botnet malware updated to use the flaw as an infection vector. Log4Shell burst into public awareness in late 2021 when security researchers identified a flaw in the ubiquitous Apache Log4J 2 Java library.

Researchers have observed several cyberattacks leveraging a botnet called IZ1H9, which exploits vulnerabilities in exposed devices and servers running on Linux.

Trend Micro says vulnerable systems in Singapore have been compromised There has been a land rush of sorts among threat groups trying to use the vulnerability discovered in the open-source Spring Framework last month, and now researchers at Trend Micro are saying it's being actively exploited to execute the Mirai botnet.…

The recently disclosed critical Spring4Shell vulnerability is being actively exploited by threat actors to execute the Mirai botnet malware, particularly in the Singapore region since the start of April 2022

A variant of the Mirai botnet called Beastmode has been observed adopting newly disclosed vulnerabilities in TOTOLINK routers between February and March 2022 to infect unpatched devices and expand its reach potentially

Vulnerable routers from MikroTik have been misused to form what cybersecurity researchers have called one of the largest botnet-as-a-service cybercrime operations seen in recent years.  According to a new piece of research published by Avast, a cryptocurrency mining campaign leveraging the new-disrupted Glupteba botnet as well as the infamous TrickBot malware were all distributed using the same