This week, ESET researchers described what they had aptly called "a fascinating case of cyberforensics" – the sudden and mysterious shutdown of the Mozi botnet. One of the world's most notorious IoT ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, in collaboration with other agencies, has disrupted a botnet that consisted of more than 200,000 consumer devices worldwide ...

ChatGPT may well revolutionize web search, streamline office chores, and remake education, but the smooth-talking chatbot has also found work as a social media crypto huckster. Researchers at Indiana ...

Western cybersecurity agencies have issued a new advisory warning of a large-scale botnet, managed by a China-based company with links to the Chinese government. The botnet is understood to consist of ...

An offshoot of the Mirai botnet is using a zero-day flaw to easily hijack a discontinued internet-connected security camera, according to security researchers at Akamai Technologies. A security camera ...

Cybercriminals are downsizing their botnets to try and trick software security companies. Computers infected with a virus unknowingly become "zombies" in a botnet — which is a network used to send out ...

In recent days you may have heard about the terrifying botnet consisting of 3 million electric toothbrushes that were infected with malware. While you absent-mindedly attended to your oral hygiene, ...

A security firm has discovered that a six-year-old crafty botnet known as Mylobot appears to be powering a residential proxy service called BHProxies, which offers paying customers the ability to ...