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, ...

A screenshot shared by XLabs showing the Aisuru botmasters recently celebrating a record-breaking 7.7 Tbps DDoS. The user at ...

SINGAPORE - A malware that was allegedly created and disseminated by a Chinese national living in Singapore infected millions of personal computers globally, turning them into a vast network of zombie ...

A global law enforcement operation this week took down and dismantled the notorious Qakbot botnet, touted as the largest U.S.-led financial and technical disruption of a botnet infrastructure. Qakbot ...

Security researchers marked the one-year anniversary of the botnet-building Storm Trojan today by disagreeing on its impact and arguing over whether it’s an important landmark on the security ...

ChatGPT may well revolutionize web search, streamline office chores, and remake education, but the smooth-talking chatbot has also found work as a social media crypto huckster. Researchers at Indiana ...

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 ...

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 ...