AI is making IoT devices more capable, but it is also giving attackers new ways to compromise them.In October 2025, Microsoft ...

Flaws in popular Internet-based telephony systems could be exploited to create a network of hacked phone accounts, somewhat like the botnets that have been wreaking havoc with PCs for the past few ...

JDY grew from 650 to 1,500+ devices after KV-botnet's takedown, enabling rapid reconnaissance and vulnerability targeting.

The Justice Department unsealed an indictment against Peter Yuryevich Levashov, an accused computer scammer who is charged with running spam botnets for more than a decade. Levashov was arrested in ...

Doug Bonderud is an award-winning writer capable of bridging the gap between complex and conversational across technology, innovation and the human condition. The era of bots has arrived. According to ...

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA -- Black Hat USA 2010 -- If you're thinking about a life of cybercrime, then building a botnet might be the best place to start, a security researcher said here last week. Click here ...

NightOwl was supposed to make Macs work in dark mode. After a recent update, one developer discovered it was siphoning users’ data through a botnet. Reading time 7 minutes In the early days of macOS ...

Dutch authorities dismantled a massive botnet that controlled more than 17 million infected devices ...

A huge botnet that was supposedly linked to Russia was found to have infected over 10 million devices. Authorities in The ...