Over the past week, security research teams have walked back claims of what they thought was one of the largest botnets of infected devices on the internet today. The botnet, dubbed "Reaper" by ...

Empty cabinets in the new data center of T-Systems, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG in 2014. Thomas Trutschel/Getty Images Contrary to what many assume, a public-private partnership to combat ...

In recent days you may have heard about the terrifying botnet consisting of 3 million electric toothbrushes that were infected with malware. While you absent-mindedly attended to your oral hygiene, ...

The security landscape has undergone a rapid change in recent times. Cyber threats, malware infections have increasingly become a principal problem for security experts. Different research studies ...

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 ...

An international group of researchers has built a prototype system for detecting botnets on a large scale and that can sniff out previously undiscovered botnet command-and-control (C&C) servers.

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 ...

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

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA -- Black Hat USA 2010 -- If you're thinking about a life of cybercrime, then building a botnet might be the best place to start, a security researcher said here last week. Click here ...