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 ...

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

Time and again, hackers infect other people’s computers as well as routers or other network devices in order to misuse them ...

The Justice Department says it has stopped Chinese hackers from weaponizing a massive army of infected devices to launch cyberattacks. NPR's Jenna McLaughlin spoke to one of the private-sector ...

The United States Department of Justice on Wednesday announced charges against a 35-year-old Chinese national, Yunhe Wang, accused of operating a massive botnet allegedly linked to billions of dollars ...

Western cybersecurity agencies have issued a new advisory warning of a large-scale botnet, managed by a China-based company with links to the Chinese government. The botnet is understood to consist of ...

A relatively new Mirai-based botnet has been growing in sophistication and is now leveraging zero-day exploits for security flaws in industrial routers and smart home devices. Exploitation of ...

A massive Chinese botnet is targeting Microsoft 365 accounts with large-scale password spraying attacks that can bypass multifactor authentication (MFA), according to SecurityScorecard. The botnet, ...

Malware and alarmism over its proliferation are nothing new -- and the latest boot-sector rootkit will be cured soon enough The sophistication of the TDL rootkit and the global expanse of its botnet ...

Separate spinoffs of the infamous Mirai botnet are responsible for a fresh wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks globally. One is exploiting specific vulnerabilities in Internet of ...

Shortly after ShadowV2’s test run, Azure was hit with the “largest-ever” cloud-based DDOS attack, carried out by the Aisuru botnet - which is also considered a “descendent” of Mirai and is sometimes ...

For the past week, domains associated with the massive Aisuru botnet have repeatedly usurped Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft in Cloudflare’s public ranking of the most frequently requested ...