New KV-Botnet Targeting Cisco, DrayTek, and Fortinet Devices for Stealthy Attacks

Dec 15, 2023NewsroomBotnet / Advanced Persistent Threat A new botnet consisting of firewalls and routers from Cisco, DrayTek, Fortinet, and NETGEAR is being used as a covert data transfer network for advanced persistent threat actors, including the China-linked threat actor called Volt Typhoon. Dubbed KV-botnet by the Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies, the…

Ukrainians grapple with telecoms outages following cyberattack

Ukrainian civilians grappled with a second day of extensive cellular phone and internet outages following a devastating cyberattack on Tuesday. The attack – orchestrated by Kremlin-backed hackers – targeted Kyivstar, the country’s largest mobile phone and Internet provider, affecting 24.3 million mobile subscribers and over 1.1 million home Internet users. Two hacking groups, Killnet and…

Ukrainians grapple with telecoms outages following cyberattack

Ukrainian civilians grappled with a second day of extensive cellular phone and internet outages following a devastating cyberattack on Tuesday. The attack – orchestrated by Kremlin-backed hackers – targeted Kyivstar, the country’s largest mobile phone and Internet provider, affecting 24.3 million mobile subscribers and over 1.1 million home Internet users. Two hacking groups, Killnet and…

Ukrainians grapple with telecoms outages following cyberattack

Ukrainian civilians grappled with a second day of extensive cellular phone and internet outages following a devastating cyberattack on Tuesday. The attack – orchestrated by Kremlin-backed hackers – targeted Kyivstar, the country’s largest mobile phone and Internet provider, affecting 24.3 million mobile subscribers and over 1.1 million home Internet users. Two hacking groups, Killnet and…