Researchers say vulnerable Web 2.0 applications and peer-to-peer architecture are making it easy for hackers to maintain armies of hijacked computers The perpetual proliferation of botnets is hardly ...

The increased proliferation of IoT devices paved the way for the rise of IoT botnets that amplifies DDoS attacks today. This is a dangerous warning that the possibility of a sophisticated DDoS attack ...

One of the most powerful pieces of malware began with the efforts of three American teens who were motivated by playing “Minecraft” in 2014. Called Mirai, it would go on to crash Germany’s largest ...

Cyberattacks launched or controlled via botnet are nothing new, but they are on the rise and pose an ever-growing threat. A recent Russian botnet masquerading as a proxy service compromised millions ...

We can now say that we live with robots on a daily basis. We're a long way from the "Jetson" context, where humanoid-looking machines walk around and carry out domestic and other tasks. We're dealing ...

Botnets often make the cybersecurity headlines – but they’re far from the Skynet nightmare that you’d assume at first glance. Botnets aren’t some sort of sci-fi AI hivemind, admittedly, but they are ...

IoT botnets are not new. Nor are DDoS attacks. But the two are on a trajectory that is raising the stakes in DDoS protection and bot takeover prevention. Larry Pesce remembers the day when the ...

If you use Google Chrome or any other Chromium-based web browser, you may want to pay attention to this. According to a report by Ars Technica, Google had accidentally published the exploit code of ...

The US Justice Department said Wednesday that the FBI surreptitiously sent commands to hundreds of infected small office and home office routers to remove malware China state-sponsored hackers were ...

The bipartisan measure, which failed last year, would create a new criminal offense for selling or providing access to botnets. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) is looking to reboot a bill that ...