Aspen Institute / YouTube U.S. authorities have dismantled a massive botnet run by hackers backed by the Chinese government, according to a speech given by FBI director Christopher Wray on Wednesday.

Western cybersecurity agencies have issued a new advisory warning of a large-scale botnet, managed by a China-based company with links to the Chinese government. The botnet is understood to consist of ...

Five years ago, researchers made a grim discovery—a legitimate Android app in the Google Play market that was surreptitiously made malicious by a library the developers used to earn advertising ...

But mixed in with all the garden variety criminality is a lot of corporate and military espionage. Botnets are primarily used for carrying out DDOS (denial of service) attacks, bank and consumer fraud ...

Sept. 19 (UPI) --U.S. authorities have thwarted another China-backed botnet, freeing hundreds of thousands of infected devices in the process, FBI Director Christopher Wray said. The head of the ...

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and its allies in the Five Eyes intelligence alliance have exposed a China-based firm operating a massive botnet network, suspected to be acting on ...

Around 1.2 million IoT devices worldwide were part of a botnet, a tenth of them in Germany. The FBI has now shut it down. According to the US Department of Justice, US prosecutors have shut down ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, in collaboration with other agencies, has disrupted a botnet that consisted of more than 200,000 consumer devices worldwide. Dubbed “Flax Typhoon ...

Sep 19, 2024 21:00:00 FBI destroys Chinese botnet 'Raptor Train' that infected 260,000 routers and network cameras with malware The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and security researchers ...

Botnets are networks of hijacked internet-connected devices, such as webcams and home routers, that have been compromised by malware (or sometimes weak or default passwords) for the purposes of ...

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and its counterpart Five Eyes agencies have accused a China-based company acting as a front for the state of running a massive botnet comprising ...