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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

The Ngioweb botnet, which supplies most of the 35,000 bots in the cybercriminal NSOCKS proxy service, is being disrupted as security companies block traffic to and from the two networks.