A large number of computers that are purposely allowed by their owners to contribute to bringing down a website. While most botnets use compromised computers without their owners' knowledge, users in ...

Botnets often make the cybersecurity headlines – but they’re far from the Skynet nightmare that you’d assume at first glance.

Miscreants are actively exploiting two new zero-day vulnerabilities to wrangle routers and video recorders into a hostile botnet used in distributed denial-of-service attacks, researchers from ...

The unique, advanced worming P2P botnet drops backdoors and cryptominers, and is spreading globally. A peer-to-peer (P2) botnet called FritzFrog has hopped onto the scene, and researchers said it has ...

Turns out most modern malware attacks have one thing in common: a botnet communication channel between the attacker and the infected machine. It used to be that botnets were mainly for spewing benign, ...

Over the past decade, the information security (infosec) field has seen a near-constant rise in malware activity. Without a doubt, the 2010s was the decade when malware exploded from a casual ...

Eight days have passed since researchers first warned of a new, potentially Internet-paralyzing botnet made up of cameras, routers, and other so-called Internet-of-things devices. There are good ...