The botnet uses port scanning code from Mirai, a first for Android-related attacks, according to researchers.

A GTA hosting site is offering powerful DDoS attacks for $20 a pop, researchers say.

Researchers say Smominru threat actors are in control of 500,000 node botnet and earning $8,500 daily mining for Monero cryptocurrency.

Two related Mirai variants called Masuta and PureMasuta have links to a hacker identified as Nexus Zeta.

F5 Labs has detected a WireX variant capable of launching UDP flood DDoS attacks.

The Onliner spambot, Google’s forthcoming Not Secure warnings for Chrome, the WireX botnet, Sarahah privacy and more are discussed.

For a second time this month, a Locky ransomware variant called IKARUSdilapidated is part of a calculated phishing attack targeting office workers with fake scanned image attachments.

A large botnet of Android devices called WireX is responsible for large-scale application-layer DDoS attacks against businesses in the hospitality, porn and gambling industries.

Botnets distributing FlokiBot point-of-sale malware are back in business spewing a new malware dubbed LockPoS.

Notorious spammer Peter Levashov was arrested over the weekend; Levashov is the alleged botmaster behind the Kelihos botnet.