The second man charged in 2006 computer attacks on The Planet and T35 Hosting has agreed to plead guilty. According to court filings, Thomas James Frederick Smith is set to plead guilty before a ...

In October, a massive botnet powered by the Mirai malware targeted DNS provider Dyn to take down a portion of the internet in the US and parts of Europe (Credit: Reuters) The same deadly malware ...

The RondoDox botnet has been observed exploiting the critical React2Shell flaw (CVE-2025-55182) to infect vulnerable Next.js ...

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But Emotet reemerged 10 months later and has resumed campaigns. It is sending out millions of phishing emails in mass spam campaigns, with the aim of infecting devices with malware that ropes them ...

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

The modern botnet is one of the most powerful attack techniques available to today’s cybercriminal. Conceptually, a botnet is a collection of compromised workstations distributed over the public ...

Botnets often make the cybersecurity headlines – but they’re far from the Skynet nightmare that you’d assume at first glance.

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 ...

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.

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 ...