ChatGPT may well revolutionize web search, streamline office chores, and remake education, but the smooth-talking chatbot has also found work as a social media crypto huckster. Researchers at Indiana ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers from Aqua Security discover new Matrix botnet The botnet runs IP cameras, DVRs, routers, and similar Matrix was built using off-the-shelf and open source tools Cybersecurity researchers ...

A joint international law enforcement action shut down two services accused of providing a botnet of hacked internet-connected devices, including routers, to cybercriminals. U.S. prosecutors also ...

The new V3G4 variant of Mirai, which creates botnets for DDoS attacks, exploited 13 different vulnerabilities in three campaigns over a six-month period, Palo Alto Network’s Unit 42 team reports. Once ...

A variant of the Mirai botnet is targeting almost two dozen vulnerabilities aiming to take control of D-Link, Arris, Zyxel, TP-Link, Tenda, Netgear, and MediaTek devices to use them for distributed ...

How long does it take to build a botnet? Not long, if you consider Anarchy's 18,000-device-strong creation, brought to life in only 24 hours. The security teams realized there has been a huge recent ...

A method that anyone can use to hijack a massive multipurpose botnet called Sality was described in detail on a public mailing list on Tuesday. Sality is a file-infecting virus that has been around ...