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, ...

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

A new botnet has been slowly growing over the past year by brute-forcing SSH logins and deploying cryptomining malware on Linux servers. The main bot client is based on the old Mirai worm whose source ...

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 ...

A method that anyone can use to hijack a massive multipurpose botnet called Sality was described in detail on a public mailing list on Tuesday. Sality is a file-infecting virus that has been around ...

The code, which uses JavaScript to turn any Web browser into a hacker's tool, was created as a demonstration of how JavaScript can be used to dodge security measures Software that could be used to ...

Standing aboard an aircraft carrier in New York’s Hudson River in 2012, US defense secretary Leon Panetta warned of a looming attack that would “paralyse and shock the nation”. It would not come via ...

Well, at least I'm not the only one who feels like the spammers are winning. Since I wrote last week about our struggles with link spam here, the evidence has been mounting that spam in general has ...