Hola's founder has confirmed the popular VPN Chrome extension sells its users' bandwidth in order to cover the cost of offering its free service -- resulting in a vast botnet-for-sale network.

Bottom line: The US Treasury Department has slapped sanctions on the shady individuals behind the notorious 911 S5 botnet hacking operation. This malicious network of compromised residential computers ...

A free version of a fast-growing and relatively efficient DDoS botnet tool has been unleashed in the underground. The so-called Darkness botnet is best known for doing more damage with less -- its ...

The three men accused of unleashing a vicious cyberassault that infected millions of computers worldwide may now be in jail, but the damage they left behind should serve as a warning for computer ...

LAS VEGAS -- Black Hat USA -- Thrifty attackers, are you tired of investing your dollars in a botnet that's constantly being disrupted by new anti-virus signatures and bot downtime? A "cloudbot" might ...

Security researchers from Proofpoint have discovered a new malware strain that they named Marap and which is currently distributed via massive waves of spam emails carrying malicious attachments ...

One of the most devastating attacks on the internet in recent years was motivated by the online computer game Minecraft, court documents have revealed. The cyberattacks in October 2016 knocked dozens ...

A massive cyptocurrency mining botnet has taken over half a million machines, and may have made its cybercriminal controllers millions of dollars. The whole operation is powered by EternalBlue, the ...

The recent breakup of the largest-ever botnet scam by US and Estonian authorities may provide only a hint of how bad botnets may soon become. While the ChangeDNS botnet infected more than 4 million ...

Over 526,000 Windows computers —mainly Windows servers— have been infected with Monero mining software by a group that operates the biggest such botnet known to date. This group's operations have been ...

Can you trust an intelligent entity that can’t explain its reasoning? Humans have never really built machines they don’t fully understand before, but the world’s most advanced algorithms now teach ...