Federal agencies face a thorny path as they try to step up the government’s fight against armies of infected computers and connected devices known as botnets, responses to a government information ...

If you’re unfortunate enough to visit a malicious page or click the wrong thing in a phishing email, you might catch a botnet — malware that hijacks your computer in order to perform a nefarious deed, ...

Mushtaq and two FireEye colleagues went after Mega-D’s command infrastructure. A botnet’s first wave of attack uses e-mail attachments, Web-based offensives, and other distribution methods to infect ...

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Maybe I have too much free time, but I was thinking that it is possible to use botnets for good. In a recent Ars article it said that one Russian group may have a botnet of 10,000,000 computers, that ...

A Romanian botnet group named 'RUBYCARP' is leveraging known vulnerabilities and performing brute force attacks to breach corporate networks and compromise servers for financial gain. According to a ...

Distributed denial of service attacks are becoming more powerful, but the Departments of Commerce and Homeland Security have urged agencies to lead by example in combating them. Phil Goldstein is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers say vulnerable Web 2.0 applications and peer-to-peer architecture are making it easy for hackers to maintain armies of hijacked computers The perpetual proliferation of botnets is hardly ...

Eight days have passed since researchers first warned of a new, potentially Internet-paralyzing botnet made up of cameras, routers, and other so-called Internet-of-things devices. There are good ...