Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. An advisory group is preparing two separate reports on what the government can do to protect against armies of compromised zombie ...

The operators behind the highly adaptable RondoDox botnet campaign that kicked off in late March have proven to be ready to embrace the latest attack trends. Most recently, in December they began ...

The FritzFrog botnet has reappeared with a new P2P campaign, showing growth of 10x within only a month. FritzFrog is a peer-to-peer botnet discovered in January 2020. Over a period of eight months, ...

Botnets don’t target and infect computers from specific business to be part of the botnet. Instead, they spread by systematically working through a list of IP addresses, or dynamically scanning the ...

Far from going the way of the dodo as many had surmised, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) botnets are alive and thriving. A new study by security vendor Zscaler shows that IRC botnets, while not growing at a ...

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 ...

Malware or malicious computer code has been around in some form or other for over 40 years, but the use of malware to take control of a group of computers that are then organized into something called ...

Zombie armies aren't just invading movie screens these days. They're also taking over the Internet in the form of massive botnets. A botnet is an army of computers, all infected with the same malware, ...

Connected technology already plays a dominant role in our daily lives. From mobile phones to tablet PCs, smart devices allow us to communicate with friends and family, keep up to date with what is ...

An international group of researchers has built a prototype system for detecting botnets on a large scale and that can sniff out previously undiscovered botnet command-and-control (C&C) servers.

Botnets, once limited to computer networks, are expanding and changing as more devices are connected to the Internet—and becoming much harder to detect and destroy. The term botnet—a contraction for ...

Malware that takes control of webcams, video recorders, and other consumer devices to cause widespread Internet outages. Botnets have existed for at least a decade. As early as 2000, hackers were ...