The ghosts and ghouls of October have come and gone, but the dangers lurking behind virtual walls have hardly disappeared. The threat of zombie bots is real, and it exists 365 days out of the year.

Internet service provider 3FN has been ordered out of business by a district court on advice and request of the Federal Trade Commission. It is accused of a variety of illegal activities. It’s been ...

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 ...

Is your computer part of a 'botnet', or one of tens or even hundreds of thousands of compromised computers, under the control of one of the 'bad guys' using your computer to commit Internet fraud and ...

WASHINGTON – An international law enforcement team has arrested a Chinese national and disrupted a major botnet that officials said he ran for nearly a decade, amassing at least $99 million in profits ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — An international law ...