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, ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The most savvy and sophisticated botnet operators are bringing out the big guns now -- operating deeper underground and staging massive distributed denial-of-service attacks on their adversaries. Jose ...

Google has taken action to disrupt a botnet that's infected 1 million devices, the company announced via blog post on Tuesday. Google also announced a lawsuit targeting the botnet's alleged operators.

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 ...