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The Necurs botnet has increased in prevalence since the US Thanksgiving holiday, as cyber-criminals use it to distribute a new form of ransomware, according to Check Point’s latest Global Threat ...

Security researchers have uncovered what could be the biggest ever botnet, capable of “crippling digital assaults” that could take down entire companies. Hackers performed what appeared to be a test ...

A new botnet has entered the threat landscape that researchers say "puts to shame" others on the scene, such as Mirai and Qbot. On Wednesday, researchers from cybersecurity firm Bitdefender said the ...

The UK and its Five Eyes allies have issued a cyber attack warning over a China-backed "botnet" of more than 260,000 compromised devices. Businesses have been urged by the National Cyber Security ...

Storm is a shadow of its former self, Kraken is just another name for Bobax and the biggest botnet goes by the mouthful of “Srizbi,” a noted botnet researcher said today as he released the results of ...

Kimwolf is the latest reminder that the most dangerous botnets now grow quietly inside everyday consumer electronics.

Researchers from Aqua Security discover new Matrix botnet The botnet runs IP cameras, DVRs, routers, and similar Matrix was built using off-the-shelf and open source tools Cybersecurity researchers ...

How long does it take to build a botnet? Not long, if you consider Anarchy's 18,000-device-strong creation, brought to life in only 24 hours. The security teams realized there has been a huge recent ...

There is little doubt that the nature of hi-tech crime has changed significantly since the turn of the millennium. Now those involved in it are more interested in making money rather than headlines.

When cyber criminals are arrested it usually means the end of their profiting from spam, viruses and stolen data. Once down, they stay down. But some parts of the cyber crime world are much harder to ...