There is a new kid in town in the world of botnets – isn’t there always? A heavyweight spamming botnet known as Festi has only been tracked by researchers with Message Labs Intelligence since August, ...

Botnets exploit PHP flaws and cloud misconfigurations, launching 20 Tbps DDoS and large-scale credential attacks.

Experts tracking Aisuru say the botnet relies on well more than a hundred control servers, and that for the moment at least ...

The “Qakbot” botnet, a network of infected computers used by hackers to attack governments and businesses around the world, has been dismantled and destroyed. So claims United States Federal Bureau of ...

The code, which uses JavaScript to turn any Web browser into a hacker's tool, was created as a demonstration of how JavaScript can be used to dodge security measures Software that could be used to ...

A method that anyone can use to hijack a massive multipurpose botnet called Sality was described in detail on a public mailing list on Tuesday. Sality is a file-infecting virus that has been around ...

The botnet created by a teenager who was arrested by Dutch police in a sting operation is most notable for its total reliance on social engineering to spread, computer security experts said Thursday.

A botnet responsible for a massive DDOS (distributed denial-of-service) attack was created thanks to weak default usernames and passwords found in internet-connected cameras and DVRs. The Mirai botnet ...