Telecommunications company Lumen successfully disrupted hundreds of command-and-control servers for the massive and resilient ...

Kimwolf is an Android botnet that infected 2M+ devices via exposed ADB, using proxy networks to run DDoS attacks and sell ...

The security company Synthient currently sees more than 2 million infected Kimwolf devices distributed globally but with ...

The main focus of Diicot’s attacks appears to support cryptojacking efforts but the group is also employing botnets and brute-force tactics for other purposes. A cybercriminal group calling itself ...

A new Mirai-based malware botnet named 'InfectedSlurs' has been exploiting two zero-day remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities to infect routers and video recorder (NVR) devices. The malware ...

Mitigation of multi-vector distributed denial of services (DDoS) attacks has increased 322 percent in 2016, but Internet-of-things (IoT) botnets, DNS-based attacks and conventional DDoS attacks ...

The world’s largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices hosted on U.S. Internet providers like AT&T, Comcast and ...

The researchers first detected the tool, a newer version of the Russkill bot known as Dirt Jumper, as it was executing DDoS attacks against two Russian Web sites -- a gaming website, and a site used ...

CloudFlare spotted a new botnet in the wild which launched massive DDoS attacks aimed at the US West Coast for 10 days in a row. A new monster botnet, which hasn’t been given a name yet, has been ...

From the dark side comes an ominous new botnet called Darkness that researchers say is quite impressive and is targeting a wide variety of websites. In the last month, Darkness has become a very ...

Threatening botnets can be created with little code experience, Akamai finds Your email has been sent Botnets, especially botnets-for-hire, are lowering the bar to technology access for those seeking ...