Researchers this week detailed a prototype system to identify and eradicate botnets in the wild. Georgia Tech’s BotSniffer uses network-based anomaly detection to identify botnet command and control ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ThreatX, the leading API and application protection platform, today announced the expansion of its platform offering with the release of a new Botnet Console and API catalog 2 ...

An apparent Russian script kiddie is converting widespread security gaps into a powerful botnet capable of launching global-scale distributed denial-of-service attacks. See Also: Airlines and Airports ...

The FBI told Americans in May 2025 to replace home routers that have reached end-of-life status, warning that threat actors ...

Doug Bonderud is an award-winning writer capable of bridging the gap between complex and conversational across technology, innovation and the human condition. The era of bots has arrived. According to ...

The FBI has disrupted the KV-botnet used by Chinese Volt Typhoon state hackers to evade detection during attacks targeting U.S. critical infrastructure. The hacking group (also tracked as Bronze ...

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 ...

A Chinese-controlled botnet of tens of thousands of unpatched internet-connected firewalls, network attached storage devices, internet-connected surveillance cameras, and small office/home office ...

The Waledac takedown is the culmination of a months-long investigation and legal strategizing on the part of Microsoft in an effort known as "Operation b49." The software giant received a temporary ...

A Russian script kiddie using little more than publicly available malware tools and exploits targeting weak credentials and configurations has assembled a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet ...

For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay ...

A huge botnet that was supposedly linked to Russia was found to have infected over 10 million devices. Authorities in The Netherlands have now shut it down.