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

Trend Micro today rolled out its SecureCloud software-as-a-service platform with a new Botnet Identification Service (BIS) to help find botnet command-and-control servers and block communications ...

In the shadowy world of cyber crime, botnets are becoming increasingly big business. For their creators, the online bots are a way to sit back and rake in the cash. A botnet is essentially a network ...

Last week, Google announced that it had partially disrupted the operations of a massive botnet—a gargantuan network of over one million malware-infected Windows computers. In the world of ...

The Justice Department unsealed an indictment against Peter Yuryevich Levashov, an accused computer scammer who is charged with running spam botnets for more than a decade. Levashov was arrested in ...

Botnets have been around for over two decades, and with the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), they have spread further to devices no one imagined they would: routers, mobile devices, and even ...

Empty cabinets in the new data center of T-Systems, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG in 2014. Thomas Trutschel/Getty Images Contrary to what many assume, a public-private partnership to combat ...

The persistence and spread of a newly identified botnet targeting private Minecraft Java servers has far wider ramifications for enterprises than bumming out a Biome. Microsoft researchers revealed in ...

Malware or malicious computer code has been around in some form or other for over 40 years, but the use of malware to take control of a group of computers that are then organized into something called ...