It is a group of computers that have been taken over by criminal botherders. Instead of rounding up sheep, these crooks round up computers and use them for illegal purposes. The term stands for robot ...

Have hackers secretly taken over your computer, router, or another device for a botnet? This free online scanner can tell you ...

The attack tops the 22 Tbps assault from September. Cloudflare also estimates that the Aisuru botnet has grown to span 1 to 4 ...

Cloudflare data shows 29.7 Tbps record-breaker landed amid 87% surge in network-layer attacks The internet has spent the past ...

Security researchers at Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs have identified a new Mirai-based botnet called ShadowV2 that quietly ...

There is a new kid in town in the world of botnets – isn’t there always? A heavyweight spamming botnet known as Festi has only been tracked by researchers with Message Labs Intelligence since August, ...

A newly discovered network botnet comprising an estimated 30,000 webcams and video recorders—with the largest concentration in the US—has been delivering what is likely to be the biggest ...

Off-brand Android TV boxes may allow users to subvert paywalls and stream tons of content, but some of them are infested with ...

Botnets: A cheat sheet for business users and security admins Your email has been sent When a computer or any other device is connected to the internet, it runs a lot of risks from malware and hackers ...

The Aisuru botnet continues to be responsible for record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

In just three months, the massive Aisuru botnet launched more than 1,300 distributed denial-of-service attacks, one of them ...