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, ...

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

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 ...

Cybersecurity researchers at Lumen Technologies Black Lotus Labs recently detailed the works of the SyxtemBC botnet, active ...

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 ...

P2PInfect, originally a dormant peer-to-peer malware botnet with unclear motives, has finally come alive to deploy a ransomware module and a cryptominer in attacks on Redis servers. According to Cado ...

Apple eventually introduced a time-sensitive dark mode to macOS Mojave, but apps like NightOwl remained on users’ Macs, whether on purpose or because it was simply forgotten. Image: Nick Bakhur ...

New DDoS botnet ShadowV2 targets misconfigured Docker containers and offers a service model where customers launch their own attack.

China has been semi-famed for launching DDoS attacks and poking around the US’s secure networks generally. One Air Force colonel’s solution? Build a massive botnet to DDoS the Commie bastards (or ...

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 ...