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Security researchers report the largest known botnet has grown tenfold to 13.5 million devices, fueling a sustained 2Tbps DDoS attack on a betting sector target. The escalation underscores the rising ...

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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 ...

Separate spinoffs of the infamous Mirai botnet are responsible for a fresh wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks globally. One is exploiting specific vulnerabilities in Internet of ...

In December 2009, Microsoft claimed that more than 651 million spam emails were sent to Hotmail accounts from a single culprit: the Waledec botnet. The company had already targeted the botnet for ...

The Justice Department said the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General’s (DoDIG) Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) executed seizure warrants targeting multiple U.S.-registered ...

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 ...

IT researchers are observing a wave of attacks in which malicious actors are incorporating ComfyUI servers into a botnet. In this botnet, the compromised instances serve as cryptominers and proxy ...

Another child of Mirai was spotted in the wild but this one flashed only briefly.