Kimwolf is the latest reminder that the most dangerous botnets now grow quietly inside everyday consumer electronics.

Kimwolf botnet infected 1.8 million Android TV devices and issued 1.7 billion DDoS commands, using ENS to hide its control ...

Consisting of over 1.8 million infected devices, the Kimwolf Android Botnet focuses on traffic proxying, but can also launch ...

The U.S. Department of Justice, in collaboration with international law enforcement agencies, says it has taken down a large botnet and arrested its administrator, YunHe Wang. The botnet, called 911 ...

The following article originally ran in Campus Safety’s sister publication Security Sales & Integration. Trend Micro just revealed it has discovered a new botnet called Persirai that is targeting over ...

Time and again, hackers infect other people’s computers as well as routers or other network devices in order to misuse them ...

[TrendMicro] are reporting that yet another IoT botnet is emerging. This new botnet had been dubbed Persirai and targets IP cameras. Most of the victims don’t even realize their camera has access to ...

A botnet is a network of computers on the Internet, each of which has been compromised and is under the influence of a coordinated group of malware instances. Bots on this network run without the ...

The rise of the Satori botnet and the fall of the Andromeda (Gamarue) botnet are the main two factors that have led to a 50% growth of the Spamhaus Exploits Block List (XBL) during the past month. The ...

When hackers corral infected computers into a botnet, they take special care to ensure they don’t lose control of the server that sends commands and updates to the compromised devices. The precautions ...

Microsoft seized 23 domains this week from No-IP, a provider of dynamic DNS services, after filing a civil suit alleging that the domains in question were used to distribute malware. The domains, ...

In 2017, the number of command and control (C&C) servers used for managing IoT botnets has more than doubled, going from 393 in 2016 to 943 in 2017. The number is based on statistics provided by ...