Kimwolf is the latest reminder that the most dangerous botnets now grow quietly inside everyday consumer electronics.

Botnets are networks of compromised computers controlled by remote attackers in order to perform such illicit tasks as sending spam or attacking other computers. The word Bot comes from the word Robot ...

Turns out most modern malware attacks have one thing in common: a botnet communication channel between the attacker and the infected machine. It used to be that botnets were mainly for spewing benign, ...

Malware or malicious computer code has been around in some form or other for over 40 years, but the use of malware to take control of a group of computers that are then organized into something called ...

A new report out today from Fortinet Inc.’s FortiGuard Labs details the activities of two different botnets observed through October and November that are being spread through vulnerabilities in ...

ESET researchers recently discovered a previously undocumented botnet that we have named VictoryGate. It has been active since at least May 2019 and, since then, three different variants of the ...

Kimwolf botnet has infected over 1.8 million Android TVs, boxes and gadgets worldwide, turning home devices into DDoS and ...

Google is suing two Russian individuals it claims are behind a sophisticated botnet operation that has silently infiltrated more than 1 million Windows machines worldwide. In a complaint filed in the ...

You know about the Storm Trojan, which is spread by the world's largest botnet. But what you may not know is there's now a new peer-to-peer based botnet emerging that could blow Storm away. "We're ...