If you currently use one of the best VPN routers as part of your home office setup, beware - hacking gangs are targeting them, along with Wi-Fi routers and media servers, as part of a botnet campaign.

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.

A portion of one typical email sent by the botnet A large-scale “sextortion” campaign is making use of a network of more than 450,000 hijacked computers to send aggressive emails, researchers ...

China's Volt Typhoon crew and its botnet are back, compromising old Cisco routers once again to break into critical ...

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 ...

The Mac botnet, a network of infected computers controlled by an attacker usually for malicious purposes, gained traction after attackers launched malicious software attached to pirated versions ...

Researchers found that the Torpig botnet, a malware program designed to harvest and steal sensitive information from users' computers, stole thousands of bank accounts and credit card numbers ...

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 ...

Legacy devices are again being hijacked by Volt Typhoon to target critical infrastructure and governmental departments.

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 ...