Security researchers have uncovered what could be the biggest ever botnet, capable of “crippling digital assaults” that could take down entire companies. Hackers performed what appeared to be a test ...

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Cyber criminals are exploiting IoT devices in homes to create a botnet called BADBOX 2.0, enabling illegal online activities. Most compromised devices are manufactured in China and become infected ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, in collaboration with other agencies, has disrupted a botnet that consisted of more than 200,000 consumer devices worldwide. Dubbed “Flax Typhoon,” the botnet ...

The first half of 2025 marked another MAJOR escalation in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) activity, with new NetScout research documenting more than eight million attacks worldwide in these six ...

A novel Go-based Linux botnet, dubbed "PumaBot," has been observed targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices. PumaBot differentiates itself from typical botnets by remotely retrieving a list of ...

(WSPA) – What’s worse than getting hacked? How about having no clue that you’re a breach victim. One of the hardest types of hacks to detect are botnets, a network of devices infected with malware.

In 2024 alone, botnets accounted for 29% of all observed malware, reclaiming their spot at the top of the cyberthreat landscape, according to ForeScout Technologies Inc.’s latest analysis of 900 ...

Cybercriminals are downsizing their botnets to try and trick software security companies. Computers infected with a virus unknowingly become "zombies" in a botnet — which is a network used to send out ...

We’re only three weeks into 2025, and it’s already shaping up to be the year of Internet of Things-driven DDoSes. Reports are rolling in of threat actors infecting thousands of home and office routers ...

Exactly one year after a heralded cybersecurity commission unveiled recommendations for President-elect Trump, the Obama-appointed body’s work is helping to inform a key White House initiative on ...