Dr. Web discovered the botnet -- which it calls BackDoor.Flashback.39 -- on April 4. It claims that more than 817,000 bots have connected to the botnet thus far, and that an average of 550,000 ...

Researchers found that the Torpig botnet, a malware program designed to harvest and steal sensitive information from users' computers, stole thousands of bank accounts and credit card numbers ...

The malware received commands from “command-and-control” servers, turning millions of Android devices into a botnet to spam users with ads and scams. The malware was distributed in a number of ...