Lucifer, a botnet using infected Windows devices to mine cryptocurrency, is now affecting Linux-based systems as well. That's according to the researchers from Netscout's ATLAS Security ...

While most botnets use compromised computers without their owners' knowledge, users in a voluntary botnet allow their computers to be taken over to increase the traffic that overloads the Web servers.

If you currently use one of the best VPN routers as part of your home office setup, beware - hacking gangs are targeting them, along with Wi-Fi routers and media servers, as part of a botnet campaign.

A portion of one typical email sent by the botnet A large-scale “sextortion” campaign is making use of a network of more than 450,000 hijacked computers to send aggressive emails, researchers ...

The botnet was made up primarily of small office and home office routers, surveillance cameras, network-attached storage, and other Internet-connected devices located all over the world.

Nothing is faster than a native client application because there are fewer layers of conversion between the executable code in the program and the operating system. In the desktop world ...

Europol called it "one of most significant botnets of the past decade" and one of the main "door openers" for computer systems worldwide. "Once this unauthorised access was established ...

The folks over at Arbor Networks were browsing Twitter and discovered something very strange: a Twitter account seemingly posting gibberish. At least, that’s how it appeared at first. Upon ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...