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Storm is a shadow of its former self, Kraken is just another name for Bobax and the biggest botnet goes by the mouthful of “Srizbi,” a noted botnet researcher said today as he released the results of ...

A botnet discovered late last year has ballooned in size in the past few weeks, but it's left security researchers confused -- if not somewhat unnerved -- as to what it does. The malware, dubbed ...

Google has taken action to disrupt a botnet that's infected 1 million devices, the company announced via blog post on Tuesday. Google also announced a lawsuit targeting the botnet's alleged operators.

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 ...

Zombie armies aren't just invading movie screens these days. They're also taking over the Internet in the form of massive botnets. A botnet is an army of computers, all infected with the same malware, ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has disclosed it carried out an operation in March to target a massive botnet controlled by Russian intelligence. The operation was authorized by courts in ...

Kimwolf is the latest reminder that the most dangerous botnets now grow quietly inside everyday consumer electronics.

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 ...

Yury Namestnikov, a security researcher with Kaspersky Laboratories, a Moscow-based IT security firm, says the past 10 years have seen botnets evolve from small networks of a dozen PCs controlled from ...

ChatGPT may well revolutionize web search, streamline office chores, and remake education, but the smooth-talking chatbot has also found work as a social media crypto huckster. Researchers at Indiana ...

The security landscape has undergone a rapid change in recent times. Cyber threats, malware infections have increasingly become a principal problem for security experts. Different research studies ...