The toothbrush botnet was just a hypothetical example that some journalists wrongly interpreted as having actually happened. It apparently started with a January 30 story by the Swiss German ...

The attack was measured at 6.3 terabits of data per second (Tbps) – roughly 10 times the size of the notorious Mirai botnet that caused massive disruption throughout the world in 2016.

The botnet, which the researchers dub Fox8 because of its connection to cryptocurrency websites bearing some variation of the same name, consisted of 1,140 accounts. Many of them seemed to use ...

The researchers discovered the botnet by searching the platform for the tell-tale phrase “As an AI language model …”, a response that ChatGPT sometimes uses for prompts on sensitive subjects.

A stealthy botnet attack that has to date infected over 9,000 exposed routers has been addressed by Asus. The company advises users to monitor their SSH access and update firmware to protect ...

National Security Inside the investigation into a giant Chinese botnet October 1, 20245:10 PM ET Heard on All Things Considered Jenna McLaughlin ...

The botnet is able to enslave devices to launch Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, launch payloads, steal data, and execute system commands. If routers are infected, this could lead to ...

Botnet has up to 260,000 compromised routers, firewalls, IP cameras, and more, says report from Five Eyes countries.