Cryptocurrency and blockchain project databases with weak credentials and AI-generated are being hacked through deployment ...

GoBruteforcer botnet fueled by server deployments with weak credentials and legacy web is targeting cryptocurrency and ...

The GoBruteforcer botnet is exploiting weak passwords on exposed servers to hunt crypto wallets and expand a growing malware ...

Security researchers have uncovered a new Mirai-based botnet that uses zero-day exploits for industrial routers and smart home devices to spread. The offensively named “gayfemboy” botnet was first ...

Researchers detailed a souped-up version of the GoBruteforcer botnet that preys on servers with weak credentials and ...

There is a new kid in town in the world of botnets – isn’t there always? A heavyweight spamming botnet known as Festi has only been tracked by researchers with Message Labs Intelligence since August, ...

Botnets are networks of computers taken hostage by malware that controls them and makes them send spam and act in other nefarious ways. They’re growing in size, number and impact. A botnet may be ...

Researchers say vulnerable Web 2.0 applications and peer-to-peer architecture are making it easy for hackers to maintain armies of hijacked computers The perpetual proliferation of botnets is hardly ...

When the Waledac botnet was dismantled by a security community-wide effort earlier this year, spam traffic immediately and discernibly dropped in a big way. But the researchers who worked in the ...

After more than 15 years in the wild, the Qakbot botnet, a zombie network of over 700,000 computers worldwide, is hanging on the FBI's trophy wall for now. Image: Whatawin/Adobe Stock A multinational ...