Botnets are more than a nuisance, they are also a business. A very big business. The millions of machines in these global networks are the powerhouse of the net's underground economy. Industries have ...

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA -- Black Hat USA 2010 -- If you're thinking about a life of cybercrime, then building a botnet might be the best place to start, a security researcher said here last week. Click here ...

Kimwolf, an Android botnet with 1.8 million infected devices, is rapidly evolving using ENS for resilience Its code and infrastructure overlap with AISURU, indicating both belong to the same threat ...

A dangerous new botnet is adding new ways to infect vulnerable endpoints almost every day, researchers are saying. Multiple cybersecurity research teams spotted a botnet called EnemyBot in March this ...

A syntax error in the KmsdBot botnet has caused it to stop sending commands, essentially killing the network. Researchers at Akamai found that the botnet stopped ...

Botnets are networks of computers taken hostage by malware that controls them and makes them send spam and act in other nefarious ways. They’re growing in size, number and impact. A botnet may be ...

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.

The huge network was created using the butterfly botnet kit The last 12 months have seen significant success in combating one of the main forms of cybercrime - botnets. These networks of hijacked home ...

Security company Incapsula has uncovered a massive botnet used to launch distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks. But this botnet wasn't made of infected computers. Instead, it's an army of ...