Researchers this week detailed a prototype system to identify and eradicate botnets in the wild. Georgia Tech’s BotSniffer uses network-based anomaly detection to identify botnet command and control ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ThreatX, the leading API and application protection platform, today announced the expansion of its platform offering with the release of a new Botnet Console and API catalog 2 ...

An apparent Russian script kiddie is converting widespread security gaps into a powerful botnet capable of launching global-scale distributed denial-of-service attacks. See Also: Airlines and Airports ...

The FBI told Americans in May 2025 to replace home routers that have reached end-of-life status, warning that threat actors ...

Two separate Mirai botnet campaigns are exploiting a critical flaw in a somewhat unlikely target. The Akamai Security Intelligence and Response Team recently observed exploitation of CVE-2025-24016, a ...

Doug Bonderud is an award-winning writer capable of bridging the gap between complex and conversational across technology, innovation and the human condition. The era of bots has arrived. According to ...

A Russian script kiddie using little more than publicly available malware tools and exploits targeting weak credentials and configurations has assembled a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet ...

Authorities in the Netherlands said they dismantled a botnet that comprised more than 17 million devices and were managed by 200 servers in a joint operation by the police and the National Cyber ...

A Chinese-controlled botnet of tens of thousands of unpatched internet-connected firewalls, network attached storage devices, internet-connected surveillance cameras, and small office/home office ...