Time and again, hackers infect other people’s computers as well as routers or other network devices in order to misuse them ...

The three men accused of unleashing a vicious cyberassault that infected millions of computers worldwide may now be in jail, but the damage they left behind should serve as a warning for computer ...

A botnet discovered late last year has ballooned in size in the past few weeks, but it's left security researchers confused -- if not somewhat unnerved -- as to what it does. The malware, dubbed ...

Since May 2018, a malware botnet has been launching brute-force attacks against Microsoft SQL (MSSQL) databases to take over admin accounts and then install cryptocurrency mining scripts on the ...

It's natural for cloud providers to offer free samples. But it turns out you can stitch together thousands of those free samples to create one big botnet, as two researchers explained Wednesday at the ...

In recent days you may have heard about the terrifying botnet consisting of 3 million electric toothbrushes that were infected with malware. While you absent-mindedly attended to your oral hygiene, ...

Eight days have passed since researchers first warned of a new, potentially Internet-paralyzing botnet made up of cameras, routers, and other so-called Internet-of-things devices. There are good ...