Did a hacker gang create a botnet out of 3 million electric toothbrushes? The answer is: No, but you’d be forgiven for having believed that was the case since a viral news story made the rounds ...

Image: Shutterstock An apparent Russian script kiddie is converting widespread security gaps into a powerful botnet capable of launching global-scale distributed denial-of-service attacks. See Also: A ...

Perhaps you thought Storm, the engine behind arguably the world's most dangerous botnet, had cornered the market on infection, intrusion and zombification. Nope. Meet Nugache, the up-and-comer ...

2. Create a Protective Policy Beyond in-place solutions, governments can also leverage evolving documentation to create consistent IoT policies. This includes the National Institute of Standards and ...

GreyNoise and Sekoia warn  Thousands of ASUS routers have been  compromised with persistent backdoors in what appears to be a ...

The command-and-control infrastructure for ransomware is especially concerning. The FBI reported a 9% rise in ransomware ...

In order to do this, an attacker needs a botnet, in other words, an army of computers under their control. To mask a hacker's IP address, they will pretend to be you so the attack can not be ...

MySQL servers are being targeted by the 'Ddostf' malware botnet to enslave them for a DDoS-as-a-Service platform whose firepower is rented to other cybercriminals.

While Google can’t do much about hackers in China, it’s siccing lawyers on the companies who host the tools that make this botnet’s basic operations possible. They’ve presented a RICO case ...

Want to mine Bitcoins or DDoS your enemies, but don't want the electric bills of a big server farm? Borrow from the cloud! Researchers found a way to spoof August 08, 2014 By Craig Matsumoto, S&P ...

“When organizations leave them accessible, they are directly contributing to the botnet problem,” said Stephen Gates, principal security engineer for Horizon3.ai Inc. “It is utter negligence.” ...

While much of the attention lately has been on botnet activity related to the Conficker worm (see Alex Lanstein, senior security researcher at FireEye Inc., a security vendor based in the San ...