The Glassworm botnet is no more, thanks to coordinated efforts between CrowdStrike, Google, and the Shadowserver Foundation.

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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Botnets are networks of computers taken hostage by malware that controls them and makes them send spam and act in other nefarious ways. They’re growing in size, number and impact. A botnet may be ...

The RapperBot campaign is bringing in some fresh talent to its arsenal of malware beats, adding cryptomining capability to its existing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet malware in order to ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Chinese-controlled botnet of tens of thousands of unpatched internet-connected firewalls, network attached storage devices, internet-connected surveillance cameras, and small office/home office ...