Separate spinoffs of the infamous Mirai botnet are responsible for a fresh wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks globally. One is exploiting specific vulnerabilities in Internet of ...

Tens of thousands of ‘botnet’ computers and devices, ‘cleaned and released’ by FBI have now been hacked into, and could be used as cyber weapons targeting the digital infrastructure of nations, ...

A joint international law enforcement action shut down two services accused of providing a botnet of hacked internet-connected devices, including routers, to cybercriminals. U.S. prosecutors also ...

A novel Go-based Linux botnet, dubbed "PumaBot," has been observed targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices. PumaBot differentiates itself from typical botnets by remotely retrieving a list of ...

The Justice Department said the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General’s (DoDIG) Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) executed seizure warrants targeting multiple U.S.-registered ...

Law enforcement authorities have dismantled a botnet that infected thousands of routers over the last 20 years to build two networks of residential proxies known as Anyproxy and 5socks. The U.S.

Chinese Volt Typhoon state hackers failed to revive a botnet recently taken down by the FBI, which was previously used in attacks targeting critical infrastructure across the United States. Before ...

The law enforcement operation has disrupted key infrastructure of the cybercrime ecosystem in what may be the largest botnet takedown of all time. In what Europol calls the largest-ever takedown ...

Security researchers are warning about a novel Linux botnet, dubbed PumaBot, targeting Internet of Things (IOT) surveillance devices. According to a DarkTrace observation, the botnet bypasses the ...