Computers are secretly hijacked to do the donkey work of worldwide crime syndicates GOZ infections are worldwide. International law enforcement agencies are trumpeting their success in disrupting the ...

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, ...

Cybersecurity researchers at Lumen Technologies Black Lotus Labs recently detailed the works of the SyxtemBC botnet, active since early 2019, which has quietly amassed more than 80 command-and-control ...

When the Waledac botnet was dismantled by a security community-wide effort earlier this year, spam traffic immediately and discernibly dropped in a big way. But the researchers who worked in the ...

Adapting and evolving to survive has been the gameplay for spammers in 2009 as the shutdown of several large botnet-hosting ISPs over the past 12 months has pushed the upskilling of cyber criminals.

A botnet trojan disguised as a video codec infected over 4 million computers and redirected them to nameservers hosted by an Estonian Internet company, earning over $14 million for paid clicks. Here's ...

Security experts believe internet service providers (ISPs) could do more in the fight against spam, by identifying the infected PCs on their networks The flood of spam is becoming an increasing ...

Microsoft has seen a dramatic drop in the number of computers infected with Waledac, a piece of malicious software affiliated with a botnet that was once responsible for a massive amount of spam. In ...