(WSPA) – What’s worse than getting hacked? How about having no clue that you’re a breach victim. One of the hardest types of hacks to detect are botnets, a network of devices infected with malware.

If you (like me) have been under the impression that botnets are no big deal, it’s time to realize what a big threat they are to legitimate businesses and organizations. Corporate PCs that are turned ...

Botnets often make the cybersecurity headlines – but they’re far from the Skynet nightmare that you’d assume at first glance. Botnets aren’t some sort of sci-fi AI hivemind, admittedly, but they are ...

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 ...

Tens of thousands of ‘botnet’ computers and devices, ‘cleaned and released’ by FBI have now been hacked into, and could be used as cyber weapons targeting the digital infrastructure of nations, ...

The cyber attacks against Google, Adobe and a raft of other top U.S. corporations late last year were by most accounts sophisticated and targeted attempts to steal proprietary data. But lost in all of ...

Researchers at Akamai’s Security Intelligence unit find a botnet specimen that reveals how successful DDoS, spam and other cyberattacks can be done with little finesse, knowledge or savvy. Botnets, ...

For the research, Trustwave implemented a network of honeypots located in multiple countries including Russia, Ukraine, Poland, the UK, China, and the US. Botnets are globally responsible for over 95% ...

Researchers say vulnerable Web 2.0 applications and peer-to-peer architecture are making it easy for hackers to maintain armies of hijacked computers The perpetual proliferation of botnets is hardly ...

got quite a few hitting my gmail account when usually i get nothing for days. Spammers = lowest form of life on the planet, only superior/one step above to the scum at the RIAA and their ...

Many of you probably unwrapped a smart device this Christmas. Operated via Wi-Fi, it cooks, cleans, heats, cools, etc. But did you know it could also be moonlighting as a bot? The likelihood is ...