A botnet called Dysphoria has compromised around 200,000 devices across the world and is using them for distributed denial of ...

Qakbot, one of the largest and longest-running botnets to date, was taken down following a multinational law enforcement operation spearheaded by the FBI and known as Operation 'Duck Hunt.' The botnet ...

A Chinese national was charged Wednesday with leading the “world’s largest botnet,” responsible for “billions” in cybercrime, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday. The DOJ said YunHe ...

In their International Criminal Law and Enforcement column, Nicholas M. De Feis and Philip C. Patterson write: Botnets, which are designed to spread to computers without revealing their existence, ...

A computer can hum along like everything works perfectly while quietly doing something far more sinister behind the scenes. Cybercriminals love that illusion because it keeps their operations ...

HalluSquatting exploits AI coding assistants that hallucinate fake repository names, letting attackers register those names ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today said they arrested the alleged operator of 911 S5, a ten-year-old online anonymity service that was powered by what the director of the FBI called “likely ...

The number of botnets and of computers controlled by them in China has fallen in recent years, though the country remains a top host for the networks of compromised computers, according to the ...

A solo Russian-speaking threat actor known as "bandcampro" outsourced a chunk of their operations to Google's open-source ...

Computer-security analysts have long since learned to hate “botnets”: clusters of computers, infected with worms or Trojan-horse programs, that are taken over by outside users. After all, botnets can ...

Denis Emelyantsev, a 36-year-old Russian man accused of running a massive botnet called RSOCKS that stitched malware into millions of devices worldwide, pleaded guilty to two counts of computer crime ...