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In 2024 alone, botnets accounted for 29% of all observed malware, reclaiming their spot at the top of the cyberthreat landscape, according to ForeScout Technologies Inc.’s latest analysis of 900 ...

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Separate spinoffs of the infamous Mirai botnet are responsible for a fresh wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks globally. One is exploiting specific vulnerabilities in Internet of ...

Europol and the US Department of Justice are claiming big wins against a large swath of the global cybercrime botnet infrastructure. Europol coordinated the international effort to neutralize dropper ...

In December 2009, Microsoft claimed that more than 651 million spam emails were sent to Hotmail accounts from a single culprit: the Waledec botnet. The company had already targeted the botnet for ...

The US says it disrupted the Aisuru botnet, notorious for launching record-breaking DDoS attacks throughout last year in an effort to shut down internet services and websites. The US partnered with ...

Another child of Mirai was spotted in the wild but this one flashed only briefly.

XMRogue would let defenders submit invalid mining job results from infected computers to get a proxy server banned from the botnet. For years, CSOs have been fighting botnets that are stealing ...

The Justice Department said the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General’s (DoDIG) Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) executed seizure warrants targeting multiple U.S.-registered ...