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 ...

WASHINGTON – More than 1 million computers – possibly yours, too – are used by hackers as remote-controlled robots to crash online systems, accept spam and steal users’ personal information, the FBI ...

As artificial intelligence makes its way into everything from search engines to smart fridges, cybercriminals are capitalizing on the same tech to supercharge their attacks. Botnets, once seen as ...

As data breaches become more sophisticated, cyber criminals are finding new ways to increase the efficiency of attacks aimed at gaining confidential information such as login and payment data. One way ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The record-breaking DDoS against Cloudflare reached 22.2Tbps, about double the intensity of an earlier attack this month. The ...

A Brazilian man has been charged for trying to rent out a botnet that would be used to send spam, U.S. authorities said Thursday. Leni de Abreu Neto, 35, of Taubate, Brazil, was charged with one count ...