Dubbed "Operation Duck Hunt" by authorities, a reference to the bot's name, the takedown represents the largest United States-led financial and technical disruption of a botnet infrastructure ...

KmsdBot, a cryptomining botnet that could also be used for denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks, broke into systems through weak secure shell credentials. It could remotely control a system ...

software that corrals Linux devices into a massive botnet for use in distributed denial-of-service attacks. “Although the critical vulnerability CVE-2022-22954 is already patched in April ...

The Chinese man, YunHe Wang, is accused of helping assemble a vast network of infected computers, known as a botnet, that was used to carry out bomb threats, send child exploitation materials ...