Botnets have been around for over two decades, and with the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), they have spread further to devices no one imagined they would: routers, mobile devices, and even ...

Emotet, one of today's largest and most dangerous malware botnets, has returned to life after a period of inactivity that lasted nearly four months, since the end of May this year. During that time, ...

Botnets, once limited to computer networks, are expanding and changing as more devices are connected to the Internet—and becoming much harder to detect and destroy. The term botnet—a contraction for ...

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Cyberattacks launched or controlled via botnet are nothing new, but they are on the rise and pose an ever-growing threat. A recent Russian botnet masquerading as a proxy service compromised millions ...

As the world has moved to scalable online services for everything from video streaming to gaming to messaging, it’s really no surprise that malware has followed close behind. Specifically, threats ...

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 ...

Zombie armies aren't just invading movie screens these days. They're also taking over the Internet in the form of massive botnets. A botnet is an army of computers, all infected with the same malware, ...

Researchers say vulnerable Web 2.0 applications and peer-to-peer architecture are making it easy for hackers to maintain armies of hijacked computers The perpetual proliferation of botnets is hardly ...

Netgear, D-Link, and Huawei routers are actively being probed for weak Telnet passwords and taken over by a new peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet dubbed Mozi and related to the Gafgyt malware as it reuses ...

Connected technology already plays a dominant role in our daily lives. From mobile phones to tablet PCs, smart devices allow us to communicate with friends and family, keep up to date with what is ...