Most people who own a computer infected with botnet malware have no idea their machine is compromised. The software is designed to stay hidden, quietly connecting to remote servers, executing ...

Unexplained slowdowns and constant background activity—even when you’re not using your computer Sudden spikes in internet ...

Watch WSJ’s Robert McMillan show off the tools needed to protect your tech from malicious software.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said that an assault it led earlier this month on one of the world's biggest cyber crime rings has freed at least 2 million PCs infected with a virus believed to have ...

In brief: Don't look now, but your video recorder might be part of a massive botnet pulling off record-breaking sustained DDoS attacks. The network involves compromised Shenzhen webcams and DVRs. The ...

The DDoS-capable Masjesu botnet focuses on evasion and persistence, but targets a broad range of IoT devices to spread.

A SystemBC proxy malware botnet of more than 1,570 hosts, believed to be corporate victims, has been discovered following an ...

Law enforcement authorities have dismantled a botnet that infected thousands of routers over the last 20 years to build two networks of residential proxies known as Anyproxy and 5socks. The U.S.

A novel Go-based Linux botnet, dubbed "PumaBot," has been observed targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices. PumaBot differentiates itself from typical botnets by remotely retrieving a list of ...

Story<BR><BR>A new estimate on the prevalence of botnets from one of the Internet's leading authorities paints a disturbing picture of a world in which 25 percent of all Internet-connected machines ...

A Russian national was sentenced to two years in U.S. federal prison and ordered to pay over $1.6 million as a result of a ransomware and computer botnet scheme, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the ...

For the past week, domains associated with the massive Aisuru botnet have repeatedly usurped Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft in Cloudflare’s public ranking of the most frequently requested ...