The security company Synthient currently sees more than 2 million infected Kimwolf devices distributed globally but with ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. An advisory group is preparing two separate reports on what the government can do to protect against armies of compromised zombie ...

Botnets have been around for over two decades, and with the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), they have spread further to devices no one imagined they would: routers, mobile devices, and even ...

Botnets don’t target and infect computers from specific business to be part of the botnet. Instead, they spread by systematically working through a list of IP addresses, or dynamically scanning the ...

The FritzFrog botnet has reappeared with a new P2P campaign, showing growth of 10x within only a month. FritzFrog is a peer-to-peer botnet discovered in January 2020. Over a period of eight months, ...

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 ...

Far from going the way of the dodo as many had surmised, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) botnets are alive and thriving. A new study by security vendor Zscaler shows that IRC botnets, while not growing at a ...

Zombie armies aren't just invading movie screens these days. They're also taking over the Internet in the form of massive botnets. A botnet is an army of computers, all infected with the same malware, ...

Botnets, once limited to computer networks, are expanding and changing as more devices are connected to the Internet—and becoming much harder to detect and destroy. The term botnet—a contraction for ...

Connected technology already plays a dominant role in our daily lives. From mobile phones to tablet PCs, smart devices allow us to communicate with friends and family, keep up to date with what is ...

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 ...

Malware that takes control of webcams, video recorders, and other consumer devices to cause widespread Internet outages. Botnets have existed for at least a decade. As early as 2000, hackers were ...