As a follow-up to last week’s article on detecting the presence of a botnet on your network, I have more advice from experts in this arena. IBM’s Internet Security Systems X-Force gives specific ...

Most botnets are usually pretty obvious to detect -- the conspicuous Internet Relay Chat (IRC) connections they use are often a dead giveaway. But botnet operators are now starting to use stealthier ...

The average life span of a command and control server in an Internet Relay Chat (IRC)-based botnet is less than two months. And these machines and their drones that make up a botnet are typically ...

Security experts say botnets are increasingly becoming more difficult to trace as criminal hackers have developed clever means to hide them. Botnets are networks of computers infected with code that ...

The story you are reading is a series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide security advisory. The vulnerability at issue has been exploited for months already, and it’s time for a ...

Authorities in Singapore shut down a large network of around 10,000 robot, or “zombie,” computers this week, after technicians at Norwegian Internet service provider Telenor ASA stumbled on the ...

Muhstik botnet, also known as Mushtik, has been targeting cloud infrastructure and IoTs for years. The botnet mainly funds itself by mining cryptocurrency using open source tools like XMRig and ...

A newly identified botnet is targeting unpatched applications running on top of Linux systems, Check Point security researchers said in a report today. First seen in November 2020, the FreakOut botnet ...

The newly discovered malware infects IoT devices in tandem with the prolific Gafgyt botnet, using known security vulnerabilities. A recently developed botnet named “Simps” has emerged from the ...

A Romanian botnet group named 'RUBYCARP' is leveraging known vulnerabilities and performing brute force attacks to breach corporate networks and compromise servers for financial gain. According to a ...