A number of botnets are pummeling a nearly year-old command-injection vulnerability in TP-Link routers to compromise the devices for IoT-driven distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. There ...

The RapperBot campaign is bringing in some fresh talent to its arsenal of malware beats, adding cryptomining capability to its existing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet malware in order to ...

Botnets are networks of computers taken hostage by malware that controls them and makes them send spam and act in other nefarious ways. They’re growing in size, number and impact. A botnet may be ...

While analyzing its capabilities, Akamai researchers have accidentally taken down a cryptomining botnet that was also used for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. As revealed in a report ...

ESET has collaborated with partners Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit, Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs, Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, and others in an attempt to disrupt known Zloader botnets. ESET contributed ...

‘GayFemBoys’ are coming for your computer. Well, kind of. Experts have told Metro that a strain of malware named after the term for feminine men has attacked hundreds of devices. Once the malicious ...