I have written about the FSF facing DDoS attacks several times, including on doing our part to clean up the internet and on Uptime Kuma, as well as "Defending Savannah from DDoS attacks". But I ...

Russian military-linked hackers tracked as APT28 have shifted cyber operations into compromised internet routers, using the MooBot botnet and vulnerable edge devices to harvest credentials, route ...

More than 4,300 home routers worldwide have been quietly converted into a distributed reconnaissance network by a newly documented malware family called AryStinger — not the familiar kind of botnet ...

A new variant of the Gafgyt botnet called C0XMO is targeting DD-WRT router firmware and can move to other device types with various CPU architectures. The researchers found samples for ARM, MIPS, ...

CrowdStrike, in collaboration with Google and the Shadowserver Foundation, has dismantled an international botnet that specifically targeted software developers and open-source software chains. The ...

CrowdStrike, working in coordination with Google and the Shadowserver Foundation, successfully took down a botnet used by cybercriminals to distribute malware and steal passwords from open-source ...

In a combined operation with Google and the Shadowserver Foundation, cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike successfully dismantled Glassworm - a sophisticated global botnet Google, Shadowserver Foundation ...

Suswati Basu is a multilingual, award-winning editor. She was shortlisted for the Guardian Mary Stott Prize and longlisted for the Guardian International Development Journalism Award.… According to ...

CrowdStrike, Google, and Shadowserver jointly dismantled the Glassworm botnet on May 26, 2026, by disrupting all four of its resilient C2 channels simultaneously Active since early 2025, Glassworm ...

CrowdStrike, working with Google and the Shadowserver Foundation, said it has taken down the Glassworm botnet, a self-propagating, credential-stealing worm that has targeted developers and spread ...

The Glassworm botnet that weaponised trusted developer tools and turned them on the open source community to poison hundreds of GitHub repositories with malicious code has been knocked out in a ...