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 ...

Every Internet user knows how viruses can turn computers into unwitting zombies secretly responsive to somebody else. One security expert says the Internet offers the possibility of the "perfect crime ...

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 ...

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 ...

Europol, alongside Eurojust, has taken down over 1,025 servers used by three malware families: Rhadamanthys infostealer, VenomRAT, and the Elysium botnet malware operations. This mission is part of ...

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 ...

They all appear to be mindlessly retweeting nonsense.

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 ...

‘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 ...