Most botnets are usually pretty obvious to detect -- the conspicuous Internet Relay Chat (IRC) connections they use are often a dead giveaway. But botnet operators are now starting to use stealthier ...

Authorities in Singapore shut down a large network of around 10,000 robot, or “zombie,” computers this week, after technicians at Norwegian Internet service provider Telenor ASA stumbled on the ...

The newly discovered malware infects IoT devices in tandem with the prolific Gafgyt botnet, using known security vulnerabilities. A recently developed botnet named “Simps” has emerged from the ...

As a follow-up to last week’s article on detecting the presence of a botnet on your network, I have more advice from experts in this arena. IBM’s Internet Security Systems X-Force gives specific ...

Security experts say botnets are increasingly becoming more difficult to trace as criminal hackers have developed clever means to hide them. Botnets are networks of computers infected with code that ...

A newly identified botnet is targeting unpatched applications running on top of Linux systems, Check Point security researchers said in a report today. First seen in November 2020, the FreakOut botnet ...