A computer can hum along like everything works perfectly while quietly doing something far more sinister behind the scenes. Cybercriminals love that illusion because it keeps their operations ...

A new Mirai-based modular Linux botnet malware called Evooo1Bot has been targeting internet-facing gateway devices, turning ...

One of the largest botnets ever is gone, as an international law enforcement operation led by the U.S. Justice Department shut down the 911 S5 botnet. A botnet is a collection of compromised computers ...

A Chinese national was charged Wednesday with leading the “world’s largest botnet,” responsible for “billions” in cybercrime, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday. The DOJ said YunHe ...

Company officials say nearly 2 million computers have been infected — some on U.S. government networks. SAN FRANCISCO — Researchers at Finjan Software Inc. reported today the discovery of a new botnet ...

The RondoDox botnet has been observed exploiting the critical React2Shell flaw (CVE-2025-55182) to infect vulnerable Next.js servers with malware and cryptominers. First documented by Fortinet in July ...

Cyber-criminals in Kenya are very much in tune with global crime trends. The perpetrators of cyber-crime can generally be loosely divided into two categories. The first consists of traditional crime ...

A long time ago, one of the reasons to get a Macintosh computer was that there were few nasty viruses or other malicious junk floating around that could affect your machine. However, this kind of ...

UNLIKE their biological counterparts, computer worms don’t come out at night. Taking this into account could help computer security firms calculate when outbreaks are likely to pose the greatest risk, ...

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 ...

Known as Simba, Ars Technica reports that it has been capable of infecting an additional 128,000 new computers each month over the past half year. It has been operating so successfully for so long ...