The creator of the Satori/Okiru, Masuta and Tsunami/Fbot botnets has been sentenced to prison for compromising hundreds of thousands of devices. A 22-year-old man has been sentenced to more than a ...

ChatGPT may well revolutionize web search, streamline office chores, and remake education, but the smooth-talking chatbot has also found work as a social media crypto huckster. Researchers at Indiana ...

Attackers quickly turn around real-world attacks using proof-of-concept code, taking only days to weeks to create workable exploits from published research, according to six months of data collected ...

One of the world’s most active spam botnets — Grum — was crippled after two of its command and control (CnC) servers hosted in the Netherlands were taken down, according to researchers from security ...

A new botnet is targeting routers, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and an array of server architectures. Simple steps can make the difference between losing your online accounts or maintaining what ...

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 ...

Internet service providers linked to the notorious Zeus botnet have been taken down, knocking out a third of the command-and-control servers that run the network of hacked machines. Two ISPs, named ...

A prominent security researcher today said he doubts Microsoft's take-down of the Waledac botnet would have any impact on spam levels, as the company claimed. "Waledac just is not a hugely prolific ...