China-linked actors hide attacks behind botnets of compromised home devices. Cyber defense grows more complex.

Earlier this week, security agencies from 10 countries, including the NSA, DOJ, NCSC, and others, published a new paper ...

Hackers working for the Chinese government are increasingly hiding their attacks behind ready-made networks of hacked routers ...

A Mirai botnet has started exploiting CVE-2025-29635, a year-old command injection vulnerability in discontinued D-Link ...

An apparent Russian script kiddie is converting widespread security gaps into a powerful botnet capable of launching global-scale distributed denial-of-service attacks. See Also: Airlines and Airports ...

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 ...

Security researchers report the largest tracked botnet has expanded tenfold to 13.5 million devices, fueling record DDoS attacks over 2Tbps. Meanwhile, DNS practices are evolving, with encrypted DNS ...

The federal government and business are teaming up to help limit the adverse affect of botnets, those networks of hijacked personal computers that spew spam and malware. See Also: AI vs. AI: Leveling ...

Two separate Mirai botnet campaigns are exploiting a critical flaw in a somewhat unlikely target. The Akamai Security Intelligence and Response Team recently observed exploitation of CVE-2025-24016, a ...

A new Mirai-based malware campaign is actively exploiting CVE-2025-29635, a high-severity command-injection vulnerability ...

In December 2009, Microsoft claimed that more than 651 million spam emails were sent to Hotmail accounts from a single culprit: the Waledec botnet. The company had already targeted the botnet for ...

A former security researcher admitted to hijacking a quarter of a million PCs, using spyware to steal bank and PayPal account information, and making money by installing adware on the massive botnet.