Each computer in the Botnet is called a Node, and it could be any computer anywhere in the world—even yours—if an attacker has managed to surreptitiously install malware on your computer by ...

The US Department of Justice has announced the takedown of the RapperBot botnet and charges against its American ...

Perhaps the most disturbing thing about botnets is there's no way to know that the computer on your desk or the router sitting innocently as you watch TV could be taking part in criminal behaviour ...

Henry says these botnets can wreak havoc on the Internet, overwhelming commercial Web sites and sending most of the world's spam e-mail. That's all while quietly infiltrating millions of home ...

A botnet is nothing more than a small program that people install (usually without realizing it) that "phones home" to another computer and carries out whatever instructions it's given.

Rapper Bot, aka "Eleven Eleven Botnet" and "CowBot," is a botnet that "primarily compromises devices like Digital Video ...

How can I protect myself from botnets? What makes botnets especially dangerous is that in most cases, devices become infected with the malware without their owners ever taking note. Your computer ...

Living in a world of “botnet zombies” doesn’t have to be overwhelming if you do your digital due diligence. “How can you tell if your computer is part of a botnet?” says Rogers.

Google has taken action to disrupt a botnet that's infected 1 million devices, the company announced via blog post on Tuesday. Google also announced a lawsuit targeting the botnet's alleged operators.

Federal prosecutors in the US have charged an Oregon man for allegedly running a global botnet-for-hire operation called Rapper Bot that used hacked IoT devices to conduct large-scale distributed ...

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 ...

Feds say Mirai-spawned botnet blasted 370K attacks before AWS and pals helped yank its servers RapperBot, a botnet-for-hire ...