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

Botnets often make the cybersecurity headlines – but they’re far from the Skynet nightmare that you’d assume at first glance. Botnets aren’t some sort of sci-fi AI hivemind, admittedly, but they are ...

A new Mirai-based botnet malware named 'ShadowV2' has been observed targeting IoT devices from D-Link, TP-Link, and other vendors with exploits for known vulnerabilities.

In just three months, the massive Aisuru botnet launched more than 1,300 distributed denial-of-service attacks, one of them ...

Though the damage was significant, the 900,000 Deutsche Telekom customers who saw internet outages over the weekend were just the tip of a potential iceberg. At one stage, 4.5pc of Deutsche Telekom’s ...

Within the last few months, more and more DDoS attacks have taken place, with the aim being to knock powerful websites out of action. The attacks have grown in size, with an overall increase of around ...

A Chinese national has been arrested for allegedly being the mastermind behind a huge botnet used to steal billions of dollars. The "911 S5" botnet was likely the world's largest - and infected ...

The latest attack using the Mirai botnet shows just how vulnerable we humans are in the IoT world. Millions of US internet users lost access to popular online sites like Twitter, Spotify, Reddit and ...

Have hackers secretly taken over your computer, router, or another device for a botnet? This free online scanner can tell you ...