Researchers at Akamai’s Security Intelligence unit find a botnet specimen that reveals how successful DDoS, spam and other cyberattacks can be done with little finesse, knowledge or savvy. Botnets, ...

In 2024 alone, botnets accounted for 29% of all observed malware, reclaiming their spot at the top of the cyberthreat landscape, according to ForeScout Technologies Inc.’s latest analysis of 900 ...

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 ...

Over the past few years, botnets have become an exceptionally egregious security issue for businesses and home computer users alike. While home PCs are the most desirable targets for recruitment into ...

Botnets built from the Mirai codebase continue to wreak havoc in the technology arena, with cyberattackers taking advantage of lax Internet of Things (IoT) security in widespread attacks. Computers ...

Attackers quickly turn around real-world attacks using proof-of-concept code, taking only days to weeks to create workable exploits from published research, according to six months of data collected ...

Two separate Mirai botnet campaigns are exploiting a critical flaw in a somewhat unlikely target. The Akamai Security Intelligence and Response Team recently observed exploitation of CVE-2025-24016, a ...

Researchers find nine of the most popular AI platforms are susceptible to a new attack that exploits hallucinations to set up a botnet.