A botnet is a network of computers on the Internet, each of which has been compromised and is under the influence of a coordinated group of malware instances. Bots on this network run without the ...

Malware or malicious computer code has been around in some form or other for over 40 years, but the use of malware to take control of a group of computers that are then organized into something called ...

Botnets have been around for over two decades, and with the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), they have spread further to devices no one imagined they would: routers, mobile devices, and even ...

Zombie armies aren't just invading movie screens these days. They're also taking over the Internet in the form of massive botnets. A botnet is an army of computers, all infected with the same malware, ...

Botnets, once limited to computer networks, are expanding and changing as more devices are connected to the Internet—and becoming much harder to detect and destroy. The term botnet—a contraction for ...

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Emotet, one of today's largest and most dangerous malware botnets, has returned to life after a period of inactivity that lasted nearly four months, since the end of May this year. During that time, ...

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 ...

Malware that takes control of webcams, video recorders, and other consumer devices to cause widespread Internet outages. Botnets have existed for at least a decade. As early as 2000, hackers were ...

Malware authors have always been trying to update their software and evolve their techniques to take advantage of technologies and bypass security measures. Moreover, there is an exponential increase ...

Netgear, D-Link, and Huawei routers are actively being probed for weak Telnet passwords and taken over by a new peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet dubbed Mozi and related to the Gafgyt malware as it reuses ...

The new BotenaGo malware botnet has been discovered using over thirty exploits to attack millions of routers and IoT devices. BotenaGo was written in Golang (Go), which has been exploding in ...