The malware behind last month’s massive distributed denial-of-service attack in the U.S. appears to be losing its potency. Ironically, hackers are to blame for diluting its power. The malware known as ...

Botnets turn computers into zombies that can be used to attack sites, spread email spam, or steal important information. Your computer could be one and you wouldn Zombies are coming; not for your ...

Botnets often make the cybersecurity headlines – but they’re far from the Skynet nightmare that you’d assume at first glance.

Malware writers are increasingly considering the Tor anonymity network as an option for hiding the real location of their command-and-control (C&C) servers, according to researchers from security firm ...

TOR-based botnets are not a new trend and were already being discussed a few years ago at Defcon 18 (“Resilient Botnet Command and Control with Tor”). But in the last year we’ve been able to confirm ...

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are all too commonly thought of as “someone else’s” problem, but botnets are all too easily formed. “We as humans like to save money and you look 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, ...