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 ...

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 ...

The use of botnets to target applications for illegal and unethical purposes is growing, yet implementation of bot detection tools and best practices lags. As companies move applications to the cloud ...

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A new attack campaign deploys malicious container images on cloud servers by exploiting insecure Docker Engine API endpoints. The malicious image contains a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet ...

A 22-year-old Washington man was sentenced to 13 months in prison for renting and developing Mirai and Qbot-based DDoS botnets used in DDoS attacks against targets from all over the world.

Almost anything with an internet connection can be hijacked and used in a malicious botnet attack–IoT devices are especially popular targets. Learn how to spot and prevent this malware threat. When a ...

Google has reportedly exposed exploit code for a critical Chrome vulnerability on its own public bug tracker this week. The flaw affects Chromium-based browsers and could let malicious websites turn ...

Botnets can thrive on Twitter, but how do they avoid detection? Twitter botnets have been an area of interest for security experts and the average user of the platform for some time now. Whether it’s ...

Dale Carnegie would be horrified. His classic on how to influence people has been perverted for online political manipulation. How do botnets work? How are they used for mass deception? How to ...