Botnets often make the cybersecurity headlines – but they’re far from the Skynet nightmare that you’d assume at first glance.

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 ...

Botnets are networks of computers taken hostage by malware that controls them and makes them send spam and act in other nefarious ways. They’re growing in size, number and impact. A botnet may be ...

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

A new report out today from Fortinet Inc.’s FortiGuard Labs details the activities of two different botnets observed through October and November that are being spread through vulnerabilities in ...

SEC says two Texas men allegedly hijacked computers and cheated investors out of more than $4.6 million The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed securities fraud charges against two Texas ...

Maybe I have too much free time, but I was thinking that it is possible to use botnets for good. In a recent Ars article it said that one Russian group may have a botnet of 10,000,000 computers, that ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 2 (Reuters) - The hackers behind the cyber attacks on major U.S. banks have repeatedly disrupted online banking by using sophisticated and diverse tools that point to a carefully ...

Botnets are networks of computers that have been compromised by malware. They’re difficult to detect because they are controlled remotely by cybercriminals. Victim computers are often referred to as ...

Security researchers find evidence of politically motivated botnet DOS attacks that appear to be tied to recent Russian and Ukrainian elections As the United States’ presidential candidates pinball ...