Botnets often make the cybersecurity headlines – but they’re far from the Skynet nightmare that you’d assume at first glance. Botnets aren’t some sort of sci-fi AI hivemind, admittedly ...

A newly discovered botnet of 13,000 MikroTik devices uses a misconfiguration in domain name server records to bypass email protections and deliver malware by spoofing roughly 20,000 web domains.

Infoblox researchers have discovered a large-scale botnet operation that turns misconfigured routers into zombie botnets, with at least 13,000 compromised routers acting as proxies for the malware.

Cybersecurity researchers from the Chinese outfit Qi’anxin XLab claim the botnet is based on Mirai, an infamous piece of malware that’s known to be behind some of the biggest and most ...

Unbeknownst to her, her refrigerator had been recruited into a botnet—a network of hacked devices—used by cybercriminals to launch attacks. Botnets, composed of ordinary devices like phones ...

While most botnets use compromised computers without their owners' knowledge, users in a voluntary botnet allow their computers to be taken over to increase the traffic that overloads the Web servers.

In case you’re looking for a variety of IRC client implementations, or always wondered how botnets and other malware looks on the inside, [maestron] has just the right thing for you. After years ...

Security researchers observe new botnet-building campaign called Murdoc Its attacks are targeting IP cameras and routers More than 1,000 devices have been identified as compromised Cybersecurity ...

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and its allies in the Five Eyes intelligence alliance have exposed a China-based firm operating a massive botnet network, suspected to be acting on ...

Operation Endgame was 'the largest ever operation against botnets' Law enforcement agencies in the US and Europe have taken down cybercrime networks responsible for defrauding victims of billions ...