Cyber-threats can come from almost anywhere and suddenly appear from nowhere. One security vendor issued a recent warning about a particular piece of malware that’s apparently as sneaky as a ghost ...

The Kimwolf botnet has ensnared over 2 million Android devices, mainly exploiting an exposed ADB service through residential ...

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A new botnet has entered the threat landscape that researchers say "puts to shame" others on the scene, such as Mirai and Qbot. On Wednesday, researchers from cybersecurity firm Bitdefender said the ...

Aisuru, the botnet responsible for a series of record-smashing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks this year, recently was overhauled to support a more low-key, lucrative and sustainable ...

Yury Namestnikov, a security researcher with Kaspersky Laboratories, a Moscow-based IT security firm, says the past 10 years have seen botnets evolve from small networks of a dozen PCs controlled from ...