Researchers this week detailed a prototype system to identify and eradicate botnets in the wild. Georgia Tech’s BotSniffer uses network-based anomaly detection to identify botnet command and control ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated ...

Authorities in the Netherlands said they dismantled a botnet that comprised more than 17 million devices and were managed by 200 servers in a joint operation by the police and the National Cyber ...

The smart TV or streaming box sitting in your living room may have spent the past several years quietly renting your home internet connection to hackers, password-spraying crews, and government ...

Botnets. The name sounds evil and the reality can be worse -- just ask Dyn, Brian Krebs or any of the other victims of Mirai or other botnets. Now there's a new botnet in town -- named IoT_Reaper by ...

If you (like me) have been under the impression that botnets are no big deal, it’s time to realize what a big threat they are to legitimate businesses and organizations. Corporate PCs that are turned ...

Once inside as an admin, attackers exploit a command injection flaw to trick the AI-powered security feature into executing commands for persistence. A newly uncovered botnet is targeting Asus routers ...

A recently uncovered dedicated denial-of-service (DDoS) for-hire botnet highlights how attackers are repurposing cloud-native development tools to build infrastructure that looks and behaves like ...