BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ThreatX, the leading API and application protection platform, today announced the expansion of its platform offering with the release of a new Botnet Console and API catalog 2 ...

The use of botnets to target applications for illegal and unethical purposes is growing, yet implementation of bot detection tools and best practices lags. As companies move applications to the cloud ...

A newly documented Linux botnet named SSHStalker is using the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) communication protocol for command-and-control (C2) operations. The protocol was invented in 1988, and its ...

Last week, Google announced that it had partially disrupted the operations of a massive botnet—a gargantuan network of over one million malware-infected Windows computers. In the world of ...

The Ngioweb botnet, which supplies most of the 35,000 bots in the cybercriminal NSOCKS proxy service, is being disrupted as security companies block traffic to and from the two networks. Following an ...

Although it’s sometimes easy to think about threat actors as evil geniuses, the reality is they’re like any other group of people whose goal is to make money with as little effort as possible. That’s ...

A new botnet has been spotted in the wild which exploits the Microsoft Windows SMB protocol to move laterally across systems while covertly mining for cryptocurrency. In a report shared with ZDNet, on ...

A new DDoS botnet propagates via the Android Debug Bridge and uses Tor to hide its activity. Researchers are warning a new botnet is recycling the Mirai malware framework and is now targeting Android ...

Kimwolf is the latest reminder that the most dangerous botnets now grow quietly inside everyday consumer electronics. Security researchers say the Android-based network has already roped in roughly ...