Courts, banks, and law enforcement are finding ways to intervene earlier — even without knowing who the scammer is.

Lumen focuses on telemetry from the internet backbone, where the largest ISPs interconnect, to reveal attack patterns that ...

Over 1,000 exposed ComfyUI instances exploited via unauthenticated code execution, enabling Monero mining and botnet expansion.

Most people who own a computer infected with botnet malware have no idea their machine is compromised. The software is ...

There’s malware lurking in shady smartphone apps and cheap off-brand household electronics. It has allowed operators of massive so-called botnet networks to use people’s home and wireless network ...

More than 14,000 routers have been compromised in one of 2026's most widespread cyberattacks so far. Mostly targeting Asus routers, the malware known as KadNap is taking devices and turning them into ...

U.S. authorities seized the attack infrastructure responsible for the largest distributed denial of service attack yet recorded in an international police operation that swept up servers underpinning ...

Law enforcement agencies have scored a major win against the world’s most predatory botnet operations, dismantling the infrastructure of four major networks responsible for some of the most aggressive ...

NEW YORK, March 20 (Reuters) - Law enforcement agencies in the United States, Germany ‌and Canada have carried out an operation to take down infrastructure used by four major botnets that infected ...

The Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets had infected more than 3 million devices in total, many inside home networks, according to the US Justice Department. The collection of millions of ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...