If you've been following the infosec Twitter community for the last few days, you couldn't ignore the constant talk about the massive scans currently taking place online, carried out by a Hajime IoT ...

A new botnet has entered the threat landscape that researchers say "puts to shame" others on the scene, such as Mirai and Qbot. On Wednesday, researchers from cybersecurity firm Bitdefender said the ...

A malware author has built a huge botnet comprised of over 18,000 routers in the span of only one day. The botnet has been built by exploiting a vulnerability in Huawei HG532 routers, tracked as ...

How long does it take to build a botnet? Not long, if you consider Anarchy's 18,000-device-strong creation, brought to life in only 24 hours. The security teams realized there has been a huge recent ...

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 ...

Last week, Google announced that it had partially disrupted the operations of a massive botnet—a gargantuan network of over one million malware-infected Windows computers. In the world of ...

Here's an idea: set up a standard for devices not intended for unsecured direct internet connection so that they refuse to proceed if they detect they are on the open internet. That doesn't solve the ...

Botnets are a growing threat, but there are six steps that security professionals can take to fight back. Web-filtering services are one of the best ways to fight bots. These services scan for Web ...