Top AI tools such as OpenClaw and GitHub Copilot can be hijacked to create new massive botnets

Researchers find nine of the most popular AI platforms are susceptible to a new attack that exploits hallucinations to set up ...
Bleeping Computer

Botnet exploits GeoVision zero-day to install Mirai malware

A malware botnet is exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in end-of-life GeoVision devices to compromise and recruit them for likely DDoS or cryptomining attacks. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2024-11120 ...

Google Gemini CLI abused as a hacking agent, malware botnet operator

A Russian-speaking threat actor known as "bandcampro" used Google's open-source Gemini CLI AI tool as a hacking agent and to ...
Gizmodo

How Cybercriminals Are Using Bitcoin’s Blockchain to Make Botnets Stronger Than Ever

Last week, Google announced that it had partially disrupted the operations of a massive botnet—a gargantuan network of over one million malware-infected Windows computers. In the world of ...
ZDNet

This is why the Mozi botnet will linger on

It has been two years since the emergency of Mozi, and despite the arrest of its alleged author, the botnet continues to spread. Mozi was discovered in 2019 by 360 Netlab, and in the two years since, ...