The UK and its Five Eyes allies have issued a cyber attack warning over a China-backed "botnet" of more than 260,000 compromised devices. Businesses have been urged by the National Cyber Security ...

Security experts contend that a growing number of operators of compromised computer networks (or “botnets”) are finding new ways to grow their networks and make them immune to potential shutdowns, ...

The FBI has dismantled a massive network of compromised devices that Chinese state-sponsored hackers have used for four years to mount attacks on government agencies, telecoms, defense contractors, ...

Though the damage was significant, the 900,000 Deutsche Telekom customers who saw internet outages over the weekend were just the tip of a potential iceberg. At one stage, 4.5pc of Deutsche Telekom’s ...

A joint international law enforcement action shut down two services accused of providing a botnet of hacked internet-connected devices, including routers, to cybercriminals. U.S. prosecutors also ...

"The government’s malware disabling commands, which interacted with the malware’s native functionality, were extensively tested prior to the operation," according to the DOJ. Reading time: Reading ...

A global Internet of Things (IoT) botnet campaign, dubbed "Ballista," has been targeting unpatched TP-Link routers since the beginning of 2025. The botnet exploits a remote code execution ...

‘If you continue to come for us, we will come for you,’ warned US deputy attorney general Lisa Monaco. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) yesterday (18 September) said that it disrupted a Chinese ...

An offshoot of the Mirai botnet is using a zero-day flaw to easily hijack a discontinued internet-connected security camera, according to security researchers at Akamai Technologies. A security camera ...