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 ...

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 ...

Federal authorities in the United States, working with law enforcement in Canada and Germany, said they disrupted four major ...

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 ...

An apparent Russian script kiddie is converting widespread security gaps into a powerful botnet capable of launching global-scale distributed denial-of-service attacks. See Also: Reduce Cloud Risk in ...

Mylobot, a recently discovered botnet that can elude antivirus software and sandboxes, is now able to deliver Khalesi information stealer malware on infected machines as part of a secondary attack, ...

Authorities across multiple jurisdictions have dismantled a vast network of compromised Internet of Things devices linked to some of the largest distributed denial-of-service attacks ever recorded, ...

Criminals hijack thousands of devices to create never-before-seen cyber weapon - Victims of the KadNap botnet are spread ...

Security experts say botnets are increasingly becoming more difficult to trace as criminal hackers have developed clever means to hide them. Botnets are networks of computers infected with code that ...

Going by a recent Reuters report - software giant Microsoft and digital security major Symantec ‘disrupted a global crime operation' simply by shutting down the servers that was connected to scores of ...