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 ...

A new wave of GoBruteforcer botnet malware attacks is targeting databases of cryptocurrency and blockchain projects on ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today said they arrested the alleged operator of 911 S5, a ten-year-old online anonymity service that was powered by what the director of the FBI called “likely ...

SecureWorks survey estimates the top 11 botnets are capable of flooding the Internet with more than 100 billion spam messages every day Storm is a shadow of its former self, Kraken is just another ...

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 ...

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 ...

The US Department of Justice and FBI said today they had filed a civil complaint, executed criminal warrants, and a temporary restraining order as part of what they called the most comprehensive ...

(WSPA) – What’s worse than getting hacked? How about having no clue that you’re a breach victim. One of the hardest types of hacks to detect are botnets, a network of devices infected with malware.

Three Russian nationals as well as a Kazakhstani citizen were arrested and charged with conspiracy and other cybercrimes, according to a recently unsealed domain seizure warrant and indictment. Alexey ...

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Peter Yuryevich Levashov, 38, of St. Petersburg, Russia, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Hartford, Conn., to offenses stemming from his operation of the Kelihos botnet, which he used to ...

WASHINGTON - More than 1 million computers - possibly including yours - are used by hackers as remote-controlled robots to crash online systems, accept spam and steal users' personal information, the ...