- BotNet 2018 -

BotNet List 2018- 2026 2025 2024 2023 2021 2020 2019 2018

Date	Name	Category	Web
24.12.18	Scanning Activity, end Goal is to add Hosts to Mirai Botnet	BotNet	SANS
21.12.18	Analyzing a Danabot Paylaod that is targeting Italy	BotNet	Securityaffairs
18.12.18	Newsmaker Interview: Troy Mursch on Top Botnet Trends	BotNet	Threatpost
18.12.18	Malspam links to password-protected Word docs that push IcedID (Bokbot)	BotNet	SANS
11.12.18	Researchers Find Thousands of Twitter Amplification Bots in Just One Day	BotNet	Securityweek
9.12.18	WordPress botnet composed of +20k installs targets other sites	BotNet	Securityaffairs
7.12.18	Botnet of 20,000 WordPress Sites Infecting Other WordPress Sites	BotNet	Bleepingcomputer
1.12.18	Hackers Using NSA Hacking Tools to Build Botnet	BotNet	Securityweek
28.11.18	FBI Shuts Down Multimillion Dollar – 3ve – Ad Fraud Operation	BotNet	Thehackernews
28.11.18	3ve Ad-Fraud Botnet with Billions of Daily Ad Requests Shut Down	BotNet	Bleepingcomputer
22.11.18	Experts found first Mirai bot targeting Linux servers via Hadoop YARN flaw	BotNet Vulnerebility	Securityaffairs
13.11.18	Hacking the hackers – IOT botnet author adds his own backdoor on top of a ZTE router backdoor	BotNet IoT	PBWCZ.CZ
9.11.18	New Spam Botnet Likely Infected 400,000 Devices	BotNet Spam	PBWCZ.CZ
9.11.18	BCMPUPnP_Hunter Botnet infected 400k routers to turn them in email spammers	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
6.11.18	Shellbot Botnet Targets IoT devices and Linux servers	BotNet IoT	PBWCZ.CZ
2.11.18	Bot Fighter Shape Security Raises $26 Million	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
30.10.18	The author of the Mirai botnet gets six months of house arrest	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
30.10.18	Recently discovered DemonBot Botnet targets Hadoop servers	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
29.10.18	‘DemonBot' Botnet Targets Hadoop Servers	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
29.10.18	Mirai Author Gets House Arrest for DDoS Attacks on University	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
26.10.18	Experts presented BOTCHAIN, the first fully functional Botnet built upon the Bitcoin Protocol	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
24.10.18	DDoS-Capable IoT Botnet 'Chalubo' Rises	BotNet IoT	PBWCZ.CZ
24.10.18	Chalubo, a new IoT botnet emerges in the threat landscape	IoT BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
30.9.18	Torii botnet, probably the most sophisticated IoT botnet of ever	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
28.9.18	Meet Torii, a Stealthy, Versatile and Highly Persistent IoT Botnet	BotNet IoT	PBWCZ.CZ
27.9.18	Hide and Seek (HNS) IoT Botnet targets Android devices with ADB option enabled	BotNet IoT	PBWCZ.CZ
23.9.18	Ngrok Mining Botnet	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
20.9.18	Mirai Authors Avoid Prison After Working With FBI	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
19.9.18	Dissecting the first Gafgyt bot implementing the “Non Un-Packable” NUP technique	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
19.9.18	Mirai authors avoid the jail by helping US authorities in other investigations	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
14.9.18	Kelihos Botnet Author Pleads Guilty in U.S. Court	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
10.9.18	Mirai and Gafgyt target Apache Struts and SonicWall to hit enterprises	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
14.9.18	Kelihos botmaster pleads guilty in U.S. District Court in Connecticut	BotNet Crime	PBWCZ.CZ
5.9.18	What are botnets downloading?	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
4.9.18	Kaspersky warns of a new Loki Bot campaign target corporate mailboxes	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
31.8.18	Hacking The Hacker. Stopping a big botnet targeting USA, Canada and Italy	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
31.8.18	Federal prosecutors indicted a 20-year-old man who built the Satori botnet	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
31.8.18	Loki Bot: On a hunt for corporate passwords	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
30.8.18	Loki Bot Attacks Target Corporate Mailboxes	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
16.8.18	Botnet of Smart Heaters, ACs Can Cause Power Disruptions: Researchers	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
16.8.18	Piping botnet: Researchers warns of possible cyberattacks against urban water services	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
8.8.18	Ramnit is back and contributes in creating a massive proxy botnet, tracked as ‘Black’ botnet	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
7.8.18	Duo Security created open tools and techniques to identify large Twitter botnet	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
6.8.18	New Open Source Tools Help Find Large Twitter Botnets	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
26.7.18	Hide ‘N Seek Botnet Targets Smart Homes	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
25.7.18	The Death botnet grows targeting AVTech devices with a 2-years old exploit	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
24.7.18	Experts warn of new campaigns leveraging Mirai and Gafgyt variants	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
23.7.18	Botnet Targets Open Ports on Android Devices	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
23.7.18	Mirai, Gafgyt IoT Botnet Attacks Intensify	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
22.7.18	Anarchy botmaster builds a botnet of 18,000 Huawei routers in a few hours	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
18.7.18	Hide 'N Seek IoT Botnet Can Infect Database Servers	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
11.7.18	HNS Botnet evolves and targets cross-platform database solutions	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
26.6.18	Necurs Campaign Uses Internet Query File Attachments	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
17.6.18	Satori botnet is back again, experts observed a surge in port scan activity associated with it	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
14.6.18	Researcher found 43 Million email addresses leaked by the Trik spam botnet	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
8.6.18	IoT Botnets Found Using Default Credentials for C&C Server Databases	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
7.6.18	FBI seizes control of a massive botnet that infected over 500,000 routers	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
7.6.18	It’s not a joke, Owari botnet operators used root as username and password to access a C&C	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
6.6.18	Oops! Botnet Operators Use Default Credentials on Command and Control Server	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
6.6.18	Mirai Variants Continue to Spawn in Vulnerable IoT Ecosystem	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
6.6.18	It’s not a joke, Owari botnet operators used root as username and password to access a C&C	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
2.6.18	Experts believe the botmaster of the VPNFilter is attempting to resume the botnet	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
24.5.18	Massive Russia-Linked Botnet Raises Concerns of New Attack on Ukraine	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ
24.5.18	U.S. Disrupts Russian Botnet of 500,000 Hacked Routers	BotNet	PBWCZ.CZ

Scanning Activity, end Goal is to add Hosts to Mirai Botnet

Newsmaker Interview: Troy Mursch on Top Botnet Trends

Malspam links to password-protected Word docs that push IcedID (Bokbot)