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 ...

One of the largest botnets ever is gone, as an international law enforcement operation led by the U.S. Justice Department shut down the 911 S5 botnet. A botnet is a collection of compromised computers ...

In total, the operation went after four botnets, estimated to have infected millions of devices across the globe, including ...

Kimwolf is the latest reminder that the most dangerous botnets now grow quietly inside everyday consumer electronics. Security researchers say the Android-based network has already roped in roughly ...

A newly discovered botnet malware called KadNap is targeting ASUS routers and other edge networking devices to turn them into ...

U.S. authorities seized KimWolf - the attack infrastructure responsible for the largest distributed denial of service attack ...

Cyber-criminals in Kenya are very much in tune with global crime trends. The perpetrators of cyber-crime can generally be loosely divided into two categories. The first consists of traditional crime ...

Peter Yuryevich Levashov, 38, of St. Petersburg, Russia, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Hartford, Conn., to offenses stemming from his operation of the Kelihos botnet, which he used to ...

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 ...

Company officials say nearly 2 million computers have been infected — some on U.S. government networks. SAN FRANCISCO — Researchers at Finjan Software Inc. reported today the discovery of a new botnet ...

In brief: Don't look now, but your video recorder might be part of a massive botnet pulling off record-breaking sustained DDoS attacks. The network involves compromised Shenzhen webcams and DVRs. The ...

Story<BR><BR>A new estimate on the prevalence of botnets from one of the Internet's leading authorities paints a disturbing picture of a world in which 25 percent of all Internet-connected machines ...