The botnet created by China’s Volt Typhoon re-emerged recently, leveraging the same core infrastructure and techniques.

Botnets are networks of hijacked computer devices used to carry out various scams and cyber attacks, under control of a single attacking party. According to Marlink’s Security Operations Center ...

The United States is taking a major victory lap after federal authorities took down what was allegedly the largest zombie "botnet" in the world. A Chinese national, YunHe Wang, was arrested as the ...

Microsoft warns that Chinese threat actors use the Quad7 botnet, compromised of hacked SOHO routers, to steal credentials in ...

While most botnets use compromised computers without their owners' knowledge, users in a voluntary botnet allow their computers to be taken over to increase the traffic that overloads the Web servers.

In case you’re looking for a variety of IRC client implementations, or always wondered how botnets and other malware looks on the inside, [maestron] has just the right thing for you. After years ...

Microsoft has exposed a complex network of compromised devices that Chinese hackers are using to launch highly evasive ...

Technology explained: What is the internet of things? "Mirai will be seen in future as the first major botnet that used the growing army of the internet of things [IoT]," commented Prof Alan ...

Also, the act of hacking into a computer to make it part of a botnet is itself illegal. You might see a counterargument that goes something like this: It’s not illegal to send web traffic or ...

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The affected routers have been leveraged into a botnet that's hammering Microsoft Azure accounts with password spray attacks, sending massive amounts of login attempts from a rotating roster of IP ...

Significant developments have emerged in the Androxgh0st botnet, revealing its strategic expansion and integration with elements from the Mozi botnet. CloudSEK’s Threat Research team today published a ...