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Botnets are a major threat for web hosting providers and basically for every server. They are the fundamentals of cybercrime in the dark industry of hackers. A botnet is a group of infected computers (aka bots or zombie machines) controlled by a hacker, the botmaster. Zombie machines can be personal computers, mobile devices, or even […]

As 2019 will be over soon, it’s time to stop for a while and look back on what happened this year. 2019 was a unique year at BitNinja (you’ll see on the results). We got closer to our mission – making the internet a safer place. However, we couldn’t have reached the successes mentioned below […]

Here, at BitNinja we always keep a close look on the defended incidents in order to discover attack trends and new attack types. Currently, BitNinja protects over 5000 servers worldwide and we are effectively defending more than 50 millions incidents every week. Undoubtedly, we still see many “oldtimer” attack types between these incidents such as […]

There is a huge demand for buying botnets on the Dark Web, so it’s not a surprise that new kinds of botnets appear from time to time in order to meet the needs of the cybergangs. Of course, there are some old but constantly attacking botnets, like the most popular Mirai botnet or the Hello […]

Do you remember the new version of the Hello Peppa botnet? At the end of 2018, it was welcomed into 2019 slightly early, and the January botnet started to spread. Well, it wouldn’t be funny, if the botnet would still send the „J4nur4ry” in the Post Data when we are already over January… So, here […]

At the beginning of the year we released our brand-new FtpCaptcha module, and of course, we were so excited about receiving the first incidents. However, we didn’t think that the very first logs will be such eye-catching. We detected a not so well-known botnet, and we didn’t find an article about it (only a few […]

As we look back now, it is amazing to remember all the things we achieved together and all the threats BitNinja saved us from since the start of the year. Here’s a five minute summary of what we have been up to in 2018. Hacker-free new year to everyone! See you in 2019! Thank you […]

There are tons of paid/free cloud-based solutions or standalone applications available over the internet that allow the user to check a system’s security level. Depending on the need, people can choose from simple nmap through “blackbox” security assessment tools to a wide range of heavy-weight penetration testing tools. Our approach Here at BitNinja we think […]

New LogAnalysis with 109x speed The former version of SenseLog (which serves our robust LogAnalysis module) has processed the files at the start and observed them if there were any changes in them. It has used a lot of sources for the dates in the log rows. In this version it was necessary because SenseLog […]