In 2024 alone, botnets accounted for 29% of all observed malware, reclaiming their spot at the top of the cyberthreat landscape, according to ForeScout Technologies Inc.’s latest analysis of 900 ...

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A new strain of botnet malware is targeting vulnerable routers from major manufacturers, using crude internet humor as part of its code while quietly enlisting devices into DDoS and cryptomining ...

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 ...

The RapperBot campaign is bringing in some fresh talent to its arsenal of malware beats, adding cryptomining capability to its existing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet malware in order to ...

While analyzing its capabilities, Akamai researchers have accidentally taken down a cryptomining botnet that was also used for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. As revealed in a report ...

A significant botnet campaign leveraging a new variant of the infamous Mirai malware, dubbed Murdoc_Botnet, has been observed targeting AVTECH cameras and Huawei HG532 routers, exploiting known ...

‘GayFemBoys’ are coming for your computer. Well, kind of. Experts have told Metro that a strain of malware named after the term for feminine men has attacked hundreds of devices. Once the malicious ...

The Department of Justice (DoJ) has disrupted a botnet used by Russian military intelligence for widespread cyber espionage. The network was made up of hundreds of individual small office/home office ...