There is a new kid in town in the world of botnets – isn’t there always? A heavyweight spamming botnet known as Festi has only been tracked by researchers with Message Labs Intelligence since August, ...

The perpetual proliferation of botnets is hardly surprising when one considers just how easy it is for the bad guys to hijack computers without tipping off the users. Slideshow: 10 of the Worst ...

Dubbed Aisuru, the botnet is part of a new class of DDoS-capable malware, referred to as TurboMirai. The threats are ...

US law enforcement has disrupted the infrastructure of the notorious China-sponsored cyberattack group known as Volt Typhoon. The advanced persistent threat (APT), which FBI Director Christopher Wray ...

The “Qakbot” botnet, a network of infected computers used by hackers to attack governments and businesses around the world, has been dismantled and destroyed. So claims United States Federal Bureau of ...

Maybe I have too much free time, but I was thinking that it is possible to use botnets for good. In a recent Ars article it said that one Russian group may have a botnet of 10,000,000 computers, that ...

Experts tracking Aisuru say the botnet relies on well more than a hundred control servers, and that for the moment at least ...

Malware writers are increasingly considering the Tor anonymity network as an option for hiding the real location of their command-and-control (C&C) servers, according to researchers from security firm ...

A new report out today from Fortinet Inc.’s FortiGuard Labs details the activities of two different botnets observed through October and November that are being spread through vulnerabilities in ...

Botnets exploit PHP flaws and cloud misconfigurations, launching 20 Tbps DDoS and large-scale credential attacks.

A new wave of pharmacy, penny stock, and e-card spam emails are being sent by an Android botnet, according to security researchers from Microsoft and antivirus firm Sophos. Terry Zink, program manager ...

Best not to buy cheap hardware and use third-party app stores if you want to stay clear of this vast ad fraud effort Human ...