Dutch coppers have pulled the plug on the Grum botnet just a week after the servers were identified by malware intelligence firm FireEye. The speedy removal of the servers shines light on how quickly ...

P2PInfect, originally a dormant peer-to-peer malware botnet with unclear motives, has finally come alive to deploy a ransomware module and a cryptominer in attacks on Redis servers. According to Cado ...

A newly identified botnet loader is shifting command-and-control (C2) operations onto the Polygon blockchain, eliminating the ...

A Linux-based botnet is alive and well, powering cryptocurrency theft and financial scams years after the imprisonment of one the key perpetrators behind it. The Ebury botnet — which was first ...

You’d think a nefarious slice of software designed to frustrate a practice plenty of us dislike — web ads — might engender cheers and well wishes. But no, the ZeroAccess botnet is hardly so noble: a ...

Microsoft announced legal action Monday seeking to disrupt a major cybercrime digital network that uses more than 1 million zombie computers to loot bank accounts and spread ransomware, which experts ...

MySQL servers are being targeted by the 'Ddostf' malware botnet to enslave them for a DDoS-as-a-Service platform whose firepower is rented to other cybercriminals. This campaign was discovered by ...

Hackers resurrect 90s IRC tricks with SSHStalker, using old exploits to quietly compromise thousands of Linux servers globally ...

The Justice Department and FBI's operation to derail the 7-year-old Coreflood botnet set a precedent for how these criminal networks will be targeted by law enforcement, and the relatively old-school ...