On October 30th, Cloudfare data identified a strange website that briefly surpassed Google as the most popular website ...

The developer behind one of the world’s largest botnets has been sentenced to five years in prison. Matjaž Škorjanc, a 27 year old who went by the handle Iserdo, was also fined of €4,000 (about $5,500 ...

Kimwolf botnet infected 1.8 million Android TV devices and issued 1.7 billion DDoS commands, using ENS to hide its control ...

Armies of networked computers that have been compromised by malicious software are commonly known as Botnets. Such Botnets are usually used to carry out fraudulent and criminal activity on the ...

The notorious Emotet botnet software began uninstalling itself from some one million computers Sunday. According to SecurityWeek, the uninstall command was part of an update sent to the infected ...

The original version of this story was published on Law.Com Two of the biggest threats to individual Internet users are phishing and botnets. While many users understand the threat presented by ...

Botnets aren't just dangerous because they can steal massive amounts of personal data and launch denial-of-service attacks—they can also self-destruct, leaving the owners of affected machines in the ...

If you (like me) have been under the impression that botnets are no big deal, it’s time to realize what a big threat they are to legitimate businesses and organizations. Corporate PCs that are turned ...

Two years ago, researchers stumbled upon one of the Internet’s most intriguing botnets: a previously undiscovered network of 500 servers, many in well-known universities and businesses around the ...

Akamai announced on Tuesday that its Security Intelligence Response Team has discovered a massive Linux-based botnet that's reportedly capable of downing websites under a torrent of DDoS traffic ...

I fear that my PC has been infected with botnet software. None of my spyware detection or anti-virus software detects anything, but my computer has slowed to a crawl and often runs at close to 100% ...

Sometimes, those of us in the computer biz get so wrapped up in the techie details that we forget that many people don’t know what we think are the basics. For example, a really smart, computer-savvy ...