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 ...

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

What's more devastating than a DDoS attack launched by a botnet? In some cases, that's the DDoS attack launched by the "opt-in botnet" aggregated through a crowdsourcing campaign. Damballa's recently ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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, ...

Despite being the subject of an international takedown operation last year, traces of the Andromeda botnet can still be found on many PCs. The Andromeda botnet was associated with 80 different malware ...

As the world has moved to scalable online services for everything from video streaming to gaming to messaging, it’s really no surprise that malware has followed close behind. Specifically, threats ...

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 ...