The ghosts and ghouls of October have come and gone, but the dangers lurking behind virtual walls have hardly disappeared. The threat of zombie bots is real, and it exists 365 days out of the year.

The term Botnet — a combination of robot and network — refers to a collection of computer applications, networks and software working autonomously. But some bots are behaving badly — sending spam, ...

Authorities in Singapore shut down a large network of around 10,000 robot, or “zombie,” computers this week, after technicians at Norwegian Internet service provider Telenor stumbled on the illicit ...

In August 2023, the notorious Mozi botnet, infamous for exploiting vulnerabilities in hundreds of thousands of IoT devices each year, experienced a sudden and unanticipated nosedive in activity. First ...

What just happened? In close cooperation with Eurojust, the FBI has dismantled the infrastructure of a widely recognized botnet operation. Qbot, which facilitated ransomware deployments and caused ...

LAS VEGAS — Botnets and their masters can communicate with each other by calling into the same VoIP conference call and swapping data using touch tones, researchers demonstrated at Defcon. This gives ...