The Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets had infected more than 3 million devices in total, many inside home networks, according to the US Justice Department.

WASHINGTON – More than 1 million computers – possibly yours, too – are used by hackers as remote-controlled robots to crash online systems, accept spam and steal users’ personal information, the FBI ...

Authorities from the United States, Germany, and Canada have taken down Command and Control (C2) infrastructure used by the ...

DoJ disrupts IoT botnets behind 31.4 Tbps DDoS attacks using 3M devices, reducing global extortion-driven outages.

A new wave of pharmacy, penny stock, and e-card spam emails are being sent by an Android botnet, according to security researchers from Microsoft and antivirus firm Sophos. Terry Zink, program manager ...

A newly discovered botnet malware called KadNap is targeting ASUS routers and other edge networking devices to turn them into ...

A Brazilian man has been charged for trying to rent out a botnet that would be used to send spam, U.S. authorities said Thursday. Leni de Abreu Neto, 35, of Taubate, Brazil, was charged with one count ...

Malware writers are increasingly considering the Tor anonymity network as an option for hiding the real location of their command-and-control (C&C) servers, according to researchers from security firm ...

The US Justice Department, with support from Canada and Germany, has dismantled four major botnets — Aisuru, KimWolf, JackSkid, and Mossad. These botnets infected over 3 million devices globally, ...