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, ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...