You’d think a nefarious slice of software designed to frustrate a practice plenty of us dislike — web ads — might engender cheers and well wishes. But no, the ZeroAccess botnet is hardly so noble: a ...

Dutch coppers have pulled the plug on the Grum botnet just a week after the servers were identified by malware intelligence firm FireEye. The speedy removal of the servers shines light on how quickly ...

P2PInfect, originally a dormant peer-to-peer malware botnet with unclear motives, has finally come alive to deploy a ransomware module and a cryptominer in attacks on Redis servers. According to Cado ...

U.S. authorities seized KimWolf - the attack infrastructure responsible for the largest distributed denial of service attack ...

International law enforcement agencies have struck a blow against the "SocksEscort" proxy botnet, comprising over 369.000 compromised devices.

A Linux-based botnet is alive and well, powering cryptocurrency theft and financial scams years after the imprisonment of one the key perpetrators behind it. The Ebury botnet — which was first ...

Researchers say they have uncovered a takedown-resistant botnet of 14,000 routers and other network devices—primarily made by Asus—that have been conscripted into a proxy network that anonymously ...

I made the most common homelab security mistake of all time (and I'm not alone) ...

A newly discovered botnet of 13,000 MikroTik devices uses a misconfiguration in domain name server records to bypass email protections and deliver malware by spoofing roughly 20,000 web domains. The ...

Researchers at cybersecurity software provider Qualys Inc. are warning of a new Mirai botnet variant that’s being used to target vulnerabilities in AVTECH Cameras and Huawei HG523 routers. The variant ...