Cheap Internet and accessible cloud technologies have a downside, which is botnets. Previously, cybercriminals created them based on local servers. However, with the development of cloud technologies ...

Former Mirai hackers have developed a new botnet, dubbed HinataBot, with the potential to cause far greater damage with far fewer resources required from its operators than its predecessor. Mirai is ...

There is a new kid in town in the world of botnets – isn’t there always? A heavyweight spamming botnet known as Festi has only been tracked by researchers with Message Labs Intelligence since August, ...

Shortly after ShadowV2’s test run, Azure was hit with the “largest-ever” cloud-based DDOS attack, carried out by the Aisuru ...

Cloudflare data shows 29.7 Tbps record-breaker landed amid 87% surge in network-layer attacks The internet has spent the past ...

Security researchers at Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs have identified a new Mirai-based botnet called ShadowV2 that quietly ...

Although it’s sometimes easy to think about threat actors as evil geniuses, the reality is they’re like any other group of people whose goal is to make money with as little effort as possible. That’s ...

The attack tops the 22 Tbps assault from September. Cloudflare also estimates that the Aisuru botnet has grown to span 1 to 4 ...

Botnet Attack Targeted Routers: A Wake-Up Call for Securing Remote Employees’ Hardware Your email has been sent The FBI spotted this state-sponsored attack that highlights how home office setups can ...

The perpetual proliferation of botnets is hardly surprising when one considers just how easy it is for the bad guys to hijack computers without tipping off the users. Slideshow: 10 of the Worst ...

The Justice Department unsealed an indictment against Peter Yuryevich Levashov, an accused computer scammer who is charged with running spam botnets for more than a decade. Levashov was arrested in ...