Botnet mining is the illicit practice of using hijacked processing power from other people's internet-connected devices to ...

The German federal information security agency disrupted a botnet that infected thousands of backdoored digital picture ...

Germany’s cybersecurity agency BSI has sinkholed a botnet of 30,000 devices shipped with BadBox malware pre-installed.

Socks5Systemz, originally advertised in the cybercrime underground as far back as March 2013, was previously documented by ...

Security researchers have disrupted a major malicious botnet, and thus also hurt the proxy service it powered. Cybersecurity ...

Researchers say a hacking group linked to the FSB used tools developed by a cybercrime group to target Ukraine's Army and ...

Ultimately, this led to the creation of Matrix, a widespread botnet that was later offered for other crooks as a service. The ...

A major Chinese botnet called Quad7 is being utilized to mount password spray attacks against organizations in the west, Microsoft experts have warned. In a new report, the company's researchers say ...

A Russian government-backed hacker group known as Secret Blizzard has targeted Ukrainian military personnel by employing ...

Security researchers from Lumen's Black Lotus were investigating the ngioweb botnet for more than a year After identifying the infrastructure and traffic, the company started blocking the data ...

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.

Russian cyber-espionage group Turla, aka "Secret Blizzard," is utilizing other threat actors' infrastructure to target ...