As notable as the sustained fall-off in spam levels has been, we've all known it's only a matter of time before botnets began to worm their way back into the the Internet. It turns out that part of ...

For the past few weeks, a threat actor who goes online by the name of "Subby" has taken over the IoT DDoS botnets of 29 other hackers, ZDNet has learned. The hacker exploited the fact that some botnet ...

Comcast Corp. wants to enlist its customers in a fight against a huge problem for Internet providers — the armies of infected personal computers, known as "botnets," that suck up bandwidth by sending ...

Nearly two months after the company was part of an operation to disrupt a large number of Citadel botnets, Microsoft said that 88 percent of the botnets spawned by that malware have been taken down.

Botnets are computer programs that talk to each other over the Internet. Some are entirely benign, like those that control Internet chats. But many botnets are entirely malicious, programs that send ...

Botnets don’t target and infect computers from specific business to be part of the botnet. Instead, they spread by systematically working through a list of IP addresses, or dynamically scanning the ...

Botnets have matured into a disastrous cybercrime phenomenon over the years. These armies of subdued electronic devices account for cyber incidents that range from data theft and click fraud to ...

An army of the undead, wreaking havoc on the Internet – it's a nightmare scenario that has played out time and again as the world's online population has exploded. But time and again protectors of the ...

Malware that takes control of webcams, video recorders, and other consumer devices to cause widespread Internet outages. Botnets have existed for at least a decade. As early as 2000, hackers were ...

eSpeaks host Corey Noles sits down with Qualcomm's Craig Tellalian to explore a workplace computing transformation: the rise of AI-ready PCs. Matt Hillary, VP of Security and CISO at Drata, details ...

Once upon a time, users who were careless about security posed a risk only to themselves. But, with the advent of pervasive networking and botnets, that's no longer true. As a result, lax security has ...

Botnets: A cheat sheet for business users and security admins Your email has been sent When a computer or any other device is connected to the internet, it runs a lot of risks from malware and hackers ...