The BotenaGo botnet source code has been leaked to GitHub. In a Wednesday report, AT&T Alien Labs – which first discovered the difficult-to-detect malware in November 2021 – said it expects ...

A newly discovered worm and botnet named Gitpaste-12 lives on GitHub and also uses Pastebin to host malicious code. The advanced malware comes equipped with reverse shell and crypto mining ...

Experts believe that an experienced cybercrime group has created a botnet from compromised Linux servers and is using these systems to mine Monero, a digital currency.

Of note, the malware utilizes GitHub and Pastebin for housing malicious component code, and has at least 12 different attack modules available – leading researchers to call it “Gitpaste-12.” ...

For nearly a month, a new botnet has been slowly growing in the shadows, feasting on unsecured Apache Hadoop servers, and planting bots on vulnerable servers to be used for future DDoS attacks.