Microsoft has opened a front in its ongoing battle against Internet scammers, using the power of a U.S. court to deal a knockout blow to an emerging botnet and taking offline a provider of free ...

The FBI has seized a domain linked to what's believed to be a Russian botnet composed of 500,000 infected routers around the world. According to the Department of Justice, the botnet -- that is, a ...

The FBI said Badbox 2.0 was discovered after the original Badbox campaign was disrupted in 2024. The original Badbox was ...

Czech based free domain provider dotFree Group has settled the lawsuit brought against it by Microsoft in the Kelihos takedown case by suspending all abusive hosts registered through its service and ...

Kimwolf grew rapidly in the waning months of 2025 by tricking various “residential proxy” services into relaying malicious commands to devices on the local networks of those proxy endpoints.

The Justice Department announced Wednesday that it had seized an internet domain that’s at the center of a Kremlin-backed hacking campaign, largely thwarting the potential weaponization of a network ...

Hackers have started to adopt domain-generation techniques normally used by botnet-type malware in order to prolong the life of Web-based attacks, according to security researchers from antivirus firm ...

Europol and the US Department of Justice are claiming big wins against a large swath of the global cybercrime botnet infrastructure. Europol coordinated the international effort to neutralize dropper ...

A major U.S. internet service provider said it's blocked incoming traffic to more than 550 command and control servers botnets identified over the past four months ...

Security researchers have uncovered a new Mirai-based botnet that uses zero-day exploits for industrial routers and smart home devices to spread. The offensively named “gayfemboy” botnet was first ...