Socks5Systemz, originally advertised in the cybercrime underground as far back as March 2013, was previously documented by ...

The folks over at Arbor Networks were browsing Twitter and discovered something very strange: a Twitter account seemingly posting gibberish. At least, that’s how it appeared at first. Upon ...

The botnet’s infection and operation method involves downloading specific binaries to start an access-controlled command shell on TCP port 7777. Once active, the devices enable a SOCKS5 server ...

Multiple cybersecurity companies have reported that many of the proxies offered by NSOCKS were from the Ngioweb botnet but not all its command-and-control (C2) nodes were discovered. In a report ...

Vasil Dimitrov / Getty Images Botnet mining is the use of malignant software to hijack a device to mine cryptocurrency. Hackers deploy a malware program that carries out the cryptocurrency mining ...

Germany’s cybersecurity agency BSI has sinkholed a botnet of 30,000 devices shipped with BadBox malware pre-installed.