Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A heatmap of a botnet displayed at Microsoft's Cybercrime Center (Reuters) One of the world’s biggest botnet networks, responsible ...

In today’s cyber threat landscape, attacks are no longer always loud or immediate. Many of the most damaging incidents begin quietly hidden within normal network activity, disguised as legitimate ...

A massive DDoS network of 13.5-million devices has been used to launch a 2Tbps attack on an unnamed target for 40 minutes ...

Best not to buy cheap hardware and use third-party app stores if you want to stay clear of this vast ad fraud effort Human ...

A Mirai botnet has started exploiting CVE-2025-29635, a year-old command injection vulnerability in discontinued D-Link ...

An investigation into the Fronton botnet has revealed far more than the ability to perform DDoS attacks, with the exposure of coordinated inauthentic behavior "on a massive scale." Simple steps can ...

In recent days you may have heard about the terrifying botnet consisting of 3 million electric toothbrushes that were infected with malware. While you absent-mindedly attended to your oral hygiene, ...

Cyber criminals are exploiting IoT devices in homes to create a botnet called BADBOX 2.0, enabling illegal online activities. Most compromised devices are manufactured in China and become infected ...

Denis Emelyantsev, a 36-year-old Russian man accused of running a massive botnet called RSOCKS that stitched malware into millions of devices worldwide, pleaded guilty to two counts of computer crime ...

The BBC has said that it had no intention of breaking the law by building and using a botnet. BBC Click acquired the means to build a botnet, used it to spam Gmail and Hotmail accounts it had set up, ...