This week, the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-UK), in concert with cybersecurity agencies in the US and other countries, warned of China-nexus threat actors increasingly using covert ...

The federal government and business are teaming up to help limit the adverse affect of botnets, those networks of hijacked personal computers that spew spam and malware. See Also: Know Thy Enemy: ...

The distributed denial-of-service attack that hobbled Internet service across the U.S. in October 2016 showed how vulnerable connected devices are to botnets, said officials tasked with researching ...

The biggest security threats facing the U.S. are ‘botnets,’ wrote associate editor of news and commentary for MIT Technology Review Jamie Condliffe. Botnets are networks of internet-connected devices ...

Another week, another massive DDoS attack originating from the Aisuru botnet, this time reaching nearly 30Tbps. If that name is familiar, it should be: We’ve covered its record-breaking attacks before ...

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 ...

Sheldon Whitehouse's amendment to tackle botnets in the Senate cyber bill failed. How much good might the legislation have done? Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's (D-R.I.) CISA amendment to tackle botnets ...

Research and education organization the SANS Institute this week revealed its list of the top menaces facing IT in the coming year. Echoing earlier reports from security watchdog organizations, the ...

The Department of Commerce and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday released a joint report detailing how the federal government can combat botnets, or networks of infected ...

A group of malicious hackers who attacked Twitter and the Chinese search engine Baidu are also apparently running a for-rent botnet, according to new research. The so-called Iranian Cyber Army also ...