Botnet fighters have another tool in their arsenal, thanks to Microsoft. The software vendor is giving law enforcers access to a special tool that keeps tabs on botnets, using data compiled from the ...

Symantec's new Norton AntiBot utility is now out of beta, promising to remove zombies from for-profit botnets scourge in exchange for $29.99 a year. The anti-botnet tool (see previous coverage here) ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Botnets give the common hacker espionage tools formerly reserved for nation states. Brian Krebs interviews Roland Dobbins on the “democratization of espionage.” Read the full article. [CSOonline] ...

RondoDox botnet exploits the React2Shell vulnerability in Next.js, with over 90,000 exposed systems used to deploy miners and ...

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

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. To build botnets, hackers infect internet-connected devices with malware that allows them to execute orders from a remote server.

On Friday, the US Department of Justice announced the extradition from Thailand of Hazma Bendelladj, a 24-year old Algerian man accused of being "BX1," the author and marketer of the SpyEye botnet ...

XMRogue would let defenders submit invalid mining job results from infected computers to get a proxy server banned from the botnet. For years, CSOs have been fighting botnets that are stealing ...

The botnet uses port scanning code from Mirai, a first for Android-related attacks, according to researchers. A new botnet that distributes malware for mining Monero cryptocurrency has emerged, ...