A relatively new Mirai-based botnet has been growing in sophistication and is now leveraging zero-day exploits for security ...

Unbeknownst to her, her refrigerator had been recruited into a botnet—a network of hacked devices—used by cybercriminals to launch attacks. Botnets, composed of ordinary devices like phones ...

Researchers from Aqua Security discover new Matrix botnet The botnet runs IP cameras ... rather than building custom solutions on their own. However, they also hinted that script kiddies could ...

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 ...

A sophisticated network of over 260,000 compromised IoT devices, dubbed the Raptor Train botnet, has been operating ...

A newly discovered botnet of 13,000 MikroTik devices uses a misconfiguration in domain name server records to bypass email protections and deliver malware by spoofing roughly 20,000 web domains.

Web-connected security cameras were among the many devices hijacked by botnet A US-based man has pleaded guilty to creating a giant botnet that was used to disrupt access to much of the web in ...

A portion of one typical email sent by the botnet A large-scale “sextortion” campaign is making use of a network of more than 450,000 hijacked computers to send aggressive emails, researchers ...

A new report out today from Fortinet Inc.’s FortiGuard Labs details the activities of two different botnets observed through October and November that are being spread through vulnerabilities ...

Security researchers warn of a new variant of the Mirai botnet. Attackers used it for zero-day exploits on industrial routers ...