At the height of its powers, Necurs was one of the most disruptive forces on the internet. A sort of Swiss Army botnet, over the years it has harnessed more than 9 million computers unwittingly under ...

Since the ancestors of today's botnets emerged a decade ago, criminal innovation has been unrelenting. The paths the crooks will take next are becoming clearer, but then so are the counter-measures, ...

Researchers have discovered new variants for the infamous Mirai and Gafgyt IoT botnets – now targeting well-known vulnerabilities in Apache Struts and SonicWall. The new Mirai strain targets the ...

Botnets turn computers into zombies that can be used to attack sites, spread email spam, or steal important information. Your computer could be one and you wouldn Zombies are coming; not for your ...

The U.S. has by far the highest number of bot-infected computers of any country in the world, with nearly four times as many infected PCs as the country in second place, Brazil, according to a new ...

Dale Carnegie would be horrified. His classic on how to influence people has been perverted for online political manipulation. How do botnets work? How are they used for mass deception? How to ...