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Cyber-threats can come from almost anywhere and suddenly appear from nowhere. One security vendor issued a recent warning about a particular piece of malware that’s apparently as sneaky as a ghost ...

Systems in the United States and Australia are topping the list. Botnet use is on the rise, particularly in the case of for-profit botnets. Check out this OnSecurity podcast with Jose Nazario, ...

A new botnet has entered the threat landscape that researchers say "puts to shame" others on the scene, such as Mirai and Qbot. On Wednesday, researchers from cybersecurity firm Bitdefender said the ...

A Mirai-based botnet named ShadowV2 emerged during last October's widespread AWS outage, infecting IoT devices across industries and continents, likely serving as a "test run" for future attacks, ...

Storm is a shadow of its former self, Kraken is just another name for Bobax and the biggest botnet goes by the mouthful of “Srizbi,” a noted botnet researcher said today as he released the results of ...

The Necurs botnet has increased in prevalence since the US Thanksgiving holiday, as cyber-criminals use it to distribute a new form of ransomware, according to Check Point’s latest Global Threat ...

How long does it take to build a botnet? Not long, if you consider Anarchy's 18,000-device-strong creation, brought to life in only 24 hours. The security teams realized there has been a huge recent ...

Yury Namestnikov, a security researcher with Kaspersky Laboratories, a Moscow-based IT security firm, says the past 10 years have seen botnets evolve from small networks of a dozen PCs controlled from ...

The Matsnu botnet has deployed a new domain generation algorithm that builds domain names from a list of nouns and verbs. The plain English phrases help the DGA elude detection. Domain generation ...

An army of the undead, wreaking havoc on the Internet – it's a nightmare scenario that has played out time and again as the world's online population has exploded. But time and again protectors of the ...

Malware that takes control of webcams, video recorders, and other consumer devices to cause widespread Internet outages. Botnets have existed for at least a decade. As early as 2000, hackers were ...