Authorities in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K. last week said they dismantled the “RSOCKS” botnet, a collection of millions of hacked devices that were sold as “proxies” to ...

Two years ago, researchers stumbled upon one of the Internet’s most intriguing botnets: a previously undiscovered network of 500 servers, many in well-known universities and businesses around the ...

An international law enforcement operation has taken down infrastructure used by a Russian botnet known as RSocks that hacked millions of computers and other electronic devices. The joint operation, ...

Launched in March 2008, AWM Proxy quickly became the largest service for crooks seeking to route their malicious Web traffic through compromised devices. In 2011, researchers at Kaspersky Lab showed ...

Researchers at Akamai Technologies Inc. today said they have discovered a new peer-to-peer botnet and SSH worm that has been actively breaching Linux servers. Dubbed “Panchan,” the botnet and SSH worm ...

The Chinese state-sponsored APT hacking group known as Volt Typhoon (Bronze Silhouette) has been linked to a sophisticated botnet named 'KV-botnet' it uses since at least 2022 to attack SOHO routers ...

A slew of federal officials from the U.S. and U.K. removed malware from among thousands of infected devices, disrupting a global botnet. Cyber Threats Justice International The U.S. Department of ...

Microsoft researchers say they are tracking a botnet that is leveraging bugs in the Spring Framework and WordPress plugins. Unpatched vulnerabilities in the Spring Framework and WordPress plugins are ...

A Russian-based cybercrime organization that hacked into millions of electronic devices around the world and sold their internet identities for other criminals to use has been disrupted in a joint law ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has disclosed it carried out an operation in March to target a massive botnet controlled by Russian intelligence. The operation was authorized by courts in ...

As the world has moved to scalable online services for everything from video streaming to gaming to messaging, it’s really no surprise that malware has followed close behind. Specifically, threats ...

It’s not the kind of security discovery that happens often. A previously unknown hacker group used a novel backdoor, top-notch tradecraft, and software engineering to create an espionage botnet that ...