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. More security news This is how government spyware StrongPity uses security researchers’ work against them Facebook approaches major cybersecurity firms, acquisition goals in mind Startup boasts unhackable email protection for the rest of us Microsoft Windows zero-day disclosed on Twitter, again First spotted in honeypot data by a NewSky Security researcher while it was still in its infancy, the botnet has matured and expanded in the meantime.

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