The Hacker News

MAY 6, 2025

Threat actors have been observed actively exploiting security flaws in GeoVision end-of-life (EoL) Internet of Things (IoT) devices to corral them into a Mirai botnet for conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2025

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the the vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Therefore, it is recommended that users conduct a comprehensive asset assessment, verify their usage scenarios, and update PHP to the latest version to ensure security. In June, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2024

Multiple threat actors exploit a recently disclosed security PHP flaw CVE-2024-4577 to deliver multiple malware families. Akamai researchers also observed threat actors behind the DDoS botnet Muhstik exploiting this vulnerability. top, which was observed in Muhstik botnet activities, and communicates via Internet Relay Chat.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

In November, Akamai warned of a new Mirai -based DDoS botnet, named InfectedSlurs , actively exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities to infect routers and video recorder (NVR) devices. On December 6, The Akamai Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) published the first update to the InfectedSlurs advisory series.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2023

Researchers spotted an updated version of the KmsdBot botnet that is now targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The Akamai Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) discovered a new version of the KmsdBot botnet that employed an updated Kmsdx binary targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Akamai discovered a new Mirai-based DDoS botnet, named InfectedSlurs, actively exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities to infect routers and video recorder (NVR) devices. In October, Akamai’s Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) noticed an anomalous activity to the company’s honeypots targeting a rarely used TCP port.

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Penetration Testing

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In the shadowy corners of the internet, an unending battle rages between cybersecurity defenders and nefarious cybercriminals.

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