Over the past decade, the information security (infosec) field has seen a near-constant rise in malware activity. Without a doubt, the 2010s was the decade when malware exploded from a casual ...

Cyberattacks launched or controlled via botnet are nothing new, but they are on the rise and pose an ever-growing threat. A recent Russian botnet masquerading as a proxy service compromised millions ...

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 ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the name given to describe the relatively new technology that connects everyday objects and devices to the web to provide additional data or functionality. But in the ...

Botnets don’t target and infect computers from specific business to be part of the botnet. Instead, they spread by systematically working through a list of IP addresses, or dynamically scanning the ...

Almost anything with an internet connection can be hijacked and used in a malicious botnet attack–IoT devices are especially popular targets. Learn how to spot and prevent this malware threat. When a ...

The US Justice Department said it has taken action to disrupt a network of cybercriminal botnets used to carry out large-scale internet attacks that infected more than 3 million devices globally. The ...

The Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets had infected more than 3 million devices in total, many inside home networks, according to the US Justice Department. The collection of millions of ...