Part of the malicious domain used in recent Trickbot campaign (Source: Menlo Security) The Trickbot botnet appears to be making a comeback this month with a fresh campaign that is targeting insurance ...

The previously shutdown Phorpiex botnet has re-emerged with new peer-to-peer command and control infrastructure, making the malware more difficult to disrupt. The botnet first launched in 2016 and ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- OWASP AppSec DC 2010 -- What if you could outfit visitors to your website with a coat of anti-botnet armor? A pair of researchers has come up with coding techniques they say ...

Aeternum C2, a native C++ botnet loader, operates on smart contracts on the Polygon blockchain, increasing its resilience.

If you (like me) have been under the impression that botnets are no big deal, it’s time to realize what a big threat they are to legitimate businesses and organizations. Corporate PCs that are turned ...

Botnets are one of the key drivers of cyberattacks, used to distribute malware, ransomware and other malicious payloads – and dark web forums are now offering lessons on how to make money from them, a ...

The Justice Department unsealed an indictment against Peter Yuryevich Levashov, an accused computer scammer who is charged with running spam botnets for more than a decade. Levashov was arrested in ...

Last week, Google announced that it had partially disrupted the operations of a massive botnet—a gargantuan network of over one million malware-infected Windows computers. In the world of ...

The MyKings botnet (aka Smominru or DarkCloud) is still actively spreading, making massive amounts of money in crypto, five years after it first appeared in the wild. Being one of the most analyzed ...

Internet service providers linked to the notorious Zeus botnet have been taken down, knocking out a third of the command-and-control servers that run the network of hacked machines. Two ISPs, named ...

Flaws in popular Internet-based telephony systems could be exploited to create a network of hacked phone accounts, somewhat like the botnets that have been wreaking havoc with PCs for the past few ...

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 ...