Botnets are networks of computers taken hostage by malware that controls them and makes them send spam and act in other nefarious ways. They’re growing in size, number and impact. A botnet may be ...

Experts tracking Aisuru say the botnet relies on well more than a hundred control servers, and that for the moment at least ...

A new wave of pharmacy, penny stock, and e-card spam emails are being sent by an Android botnet, according to security researchers from Microsoft and antivirus firm Sophos. Terry Zink, program manager ...

US law enforcement has disrupted the infrastructure of the notorious China-sponsored cyberattack group known as Volt Typhoon. The advanced persistent threat (APT), which FBI Director Christopher Wray ...

The hacker ecosystem in Russia, more than perhaps anywhere else in the world, has long blurred the lines between cybercrime, state-sponsored cyberwarfare, and espionage. Now an indictment of a group ...

WASHINGTON — An international law enforcement team has arrested a Chinese national and disrupted a major botnet that officials said he ran for nearly a decade, amassing at least $99 million in profits ...

Malware writers are increasingly considering the Tor anonymity network as an option for hiding the real location of their command-and-control (C&C) servers, according to researchers from security firm ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - While U.S. law enforcement agencies have long tried to stamp out networks of compromised computers used by cyber criminals, the National Security Agency has been hijacking ...

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‘GayFemBoys’ are coming for your computer. Well, kind of. Experts have told Metro that a strain of malware named after the term for feminine men has attacked hundreds of devices. Once the malicious ...