The security company Synthient currently sees more than 2 million infected Kimwolf devices distributed globally but with ...

Cyber criminals are exploiting IoT devices in homes to create a botnet called BADBOX 2.0, enabling illegal online activities. Most compromised devices are manufactured in China and become infected ...

It is a group of computers that have been taken over by criminal botherders. Instead of rounding up sheep, these crooks round up computers and use them for illegal purposes. The term stands for robot ...

Former Mirai hackers have developed a new botnet, dubbed HinataBot, with the potential to cause far greater damage with far fewer resources required from its operators than its predecessor. Mirai is ...

Want to create a huge botnet to distribute malware, pump out spam, crack passwords or knock your enemy's website offline? Don't bother with designing malware to break into strangers' computers.

Kimwolf, an Android botnet with 1.8 million infected devices, is rapidly evolving using ENS for resilience Its code and infrastructure overlap with AISURU, indicating both belong to the same threat ...

A major botnet operation has been attacking and taking over the web shells (backdoors on web servers) of other malware operations for more than a year, security researchers from Positive Technologies ...

The threat actor behind the internet's largest WordPress botnet is using an anti-adblocker script to make sure the ads they inject on hacked sites are showing up in users' browsers and generating a ...

On Tuesday, Google disclosed it recently disrupted a massive network of computers infected by Glupteba. The company estimates the malware has infected approximately one million Windows PCs globally, ...

Botnets often make the cybersecurity headlines – but they’re far from the Skynet nightmare that you’d assume at first glance. Botnets aren’t some sort of sci-fi AI hivemind, admittedly, but they are ...