Yury Namestnikov, a security researcher with Kaspersky Laboratories, a Moscow-based IT security firm, says the past 10 years have seen botnets evolve from small networks of a dozen PCs controlled from ...

Kimwolf is the latest reminder that the most dangerous botnets now grow quietly inside everyday consumer electronics. Security researchers say the Android-based network has already roped in roughly 1.

Spam continues to grow largely due to the growth in malicious botnets. Many botnets are command-and-control systems used by criminals and are still the main way that spam is spewed into your e-mail ...

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The FritzFrog botnet has reappeared with a new P2P campaign, showing growth of 10x within only a month. FritzFrog is a peer-to-peer botnet discovered in January 2020. Over a period of eight months, ...

Botnets don’t target and infect computers from specific business to be part of the botnet. Instead, they spread by systematically working through a list of IP addresses, or dynamically scanning the ...

Botnets are responsible for a great deal of the hacking, spamming and malware that we read about in the news, yet public awareness of the hacker’s favorite tool remains relatively limited. The ability ...

Last week the FBI took down the Coreflood botnet—a major network of zombie computers that had been used to steal personal information worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. But the bust relied on an ...

The relentless rise in COVID-19 cases is battering already frayed healthcare systems — and ransomware criminals are using the opportunity to strike. Black Hat 2020 session discusses how high-wattage ...

For the past few weeks, a threat actor who goes online by the name of "Subby" has taken over the IoT DDoS botnets of 29 other hackers, ZDNet has learned. The hacker exploited the fact that some botnet ...

Storm is a shadow of its former self, Kraken is just another name for Bobax and the biggest botnet goes by the mouthful of “Srizbi,” a noted botnet researcher said today as he released the results of ...

Google is suing two Russia-based individuals it alleges are behind a massive network of infected computers that have been used for crimes ranging from the theft of personal information to secretly ...