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.

A newly discovered network botnet comprising an estimated 30,000 webcams and video recorders—with the largest concentration in the US—has been delivering what is likely to be the biggest ...

The masterminds behind the Badbox botnet have adapted their activities and created the Badbox 2.0 botnet – with more than one million infected devices. The original Badbox malware had infected ...

In brief: Don't look now, but your video recorder might be part of a massive botnet pulling off record-breaking sustained DDoS attacks. The network involves compromised Shenzhen webcams and DVRs.

A new botnet campaign is exploiting a high-severity security flaw in unpatched TP-Link routers and has already spread to more than 6,000 devices. According to a new report from the Cato CTRL team ...

A new botnet malware named 'Eleven11bot' has infected over 86,000 IoT devices, primarily security cameras and network video recorders (NVRs), to conduct DDoS attacks. The botnet, which is loosely ...

According to the latest analyses, the botnet dubbed "Vo1d" by security experts has continued to spread from the end of 2024 until now. Security researchers from Xlab observed a peak of around 1.6 ...