Researchers this week detailed a prototype system to identify and eradicate botnets in the wild. Georgia Tech’s BotSniffer uses network-based anomaly detection to identify botnet command and control ...

A huge network of more than 3 million devices has been disrupted in an operation targeting DDoS botnets.

Federal authorities in the United States, working with law enforcement in Canada and Germany, said they disrupted four major ...

Spread the loveA recent global law enforcement operation has made significant strides in combating cybercrime by targeting the operators of notorious botnets, including AISURU, Kimwolf, and JackSkid.

An apparent Russian script kiddie is converting widespread security gaps into a powerful botnet capable of launching global-scale distributed denial-of-service attacks. See Also: Reduce Cloud Risk in ...

Botnets. The name sounds evil and the reality can be worse -- just ask Dyn, Brian Krebs or any of the other victims of Mirai or other botnets. Now there's a new botnet in town -- named IoT_Reaper by ...

Authorities across multiple jurisdictions have dismantled a vast network of compromised Internet of Things devices linked to some of the largest distributed denial-of-service attacks ever recorded, ...

Criminals hijack thousands of devices to create never-before-seen cyber weapon - Victims of the KadNap botnet are spread ...

Security experts say botnets are increasingly becoming more difficult to trace as criminal hackers have developed clever means to hide them. Botnets are networks of computers infected with code that ...