The sudden disappearance yesterday of a known command-and-control point for ZeuS botnets had security researchers appreciative — but wondering about the reason for the sudden takedown. Registered in ...

Kimwolf is the latest reminder that the most dangerous botnets now grow quietly inside everyday consumer electronics.

Kimwolf botnet infected 1.8 million Android TV devices and issued 1.7 billion DDoS commands, using ENS to hide its control ...

Cybersecurity researchers from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have discovered a campaign exploiting multiple vulnerabilities in D-Link routers to spread botnet malware. A botnet is a network of ...

Last week, the FBI took control of a botnet made up of hundreds of thousands of internet-connected devices, such as cameras, video recorders, storage devices, and routers, which was run by a Chinese ...

SecureWorks survey estimates the top 11 botnets are capable of flooding the Internet with more than 100 billion spam messages every day Storm is a shadow of its former self, Kraken is just another ...

Google has taken action to disrupt a botnet that's infected 1 million devices, the company announced via blog post on Tuesday. Google also announced a lawsuit targeting the botnet's alleged operators.

We’ve seen this happen with Twitter, now it appears that botnet writers are using Google Groups newsgroups as a base for controlling infected PCs. Hackers need to be able to quickly and easily spread ...

Sergey Manikin, a joint Moldovan-Russian national who ran a botnet proxy network known as IPStorm that compromised computer systems all over the world, has pled guilty to three counts of violating US ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Observing, pondering, and writing about tech. Generally in that order. Dec 18, 2021, 11:12am EST Apr 21, 2022, 09:33am EDT This ...

Google is suing two Russia-based individuals it alleges are behind a massive network of infected computers that have been used for crimes ranging from the theft of personal information to secretly ...

Google is suing two Russian individuals it claims are behind a sophisticated botnet operation that has silently infiltrated more than 1 million Windows machines worldwide. In a complaint filed in the ...