Federal prosecutors have charged four men from Russia and Kazakhstan with running a proxy botnet that quietly hijacked older ...

We’re only three weeks into 2025, and it’s already shaping up to be the year of Internet of Things-driven DDoSes. Reports are rolling in of threat actors infecting thousands of home and office routers ...

Google and the FBI Target Massive Botnet That Quietly Used Home Devices to Mask Cybercrime ...

A group of malware experts from security companies Kaspersky Lab, CrowdStrike, Dell SecureWorks and the Honeynet Project, have worked together to disable the second version of the Kelihos botnet, ...

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: Airlines and Airports ...

The news comes just weeks after the U.S. announced it went on the offensive against a China-linked botnet operation. The FBI disrupted a botnet operation managed by Russia’s Main Intelligence ...

Turns out most modern malware attacks have one thing in common: a botnet communication channel between the attacker and the infected machine. It used to be that botnets were mainly for spewing benign, ...

A newly discovered botnet of 13,000 MikroTik devices uses a misconfiguration in domain name server records to bypass email protections and deliver malware by spoofing roughly 20,000 web domains. The ...

Security researchers say they have observed what they believe is a takedown of the notorious Mozi botnet that infiltrated more than a million Internet of Things devices worldwide. In research shared ...

Part of the malicious domain used in recent Trickbot campaign (Source: Menlo Security) The Trickbot botnet appears to be making a comeback this month with a fresh campaign that is targeting insurance ...

KrebsOnSecurity is often the target of disgruntled cybercriminals and has now been targeted by a large and powerful botnet. The website, operated by security expert Brian Krebs, was subject to an ...