GreyNoise Labs has launched a free tool called GreyNoise IP Check that lets users check if their IP address has been observed ...

Peter Yuryevich Levashov, 38, of St. Petersburg, Russia, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Hartford, Conn., to offenses stemming from his operation of the Kelihos botnet, which he used to ...

Microsoft said today that the Aisuru botnet hit its Azure network with a 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps) DDoS attack, ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today said they arrested the alleged operator of 911 S5, a ten-year-old online anonymity service that was powered by what the director of the FBI called “likely ...

Microsoft recently mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack aimed at its Azure cloud service.

Google has taken action to disrupt a botnet that's infected 1 million devices, the company announced via blog post on Tuesday. Google also announced a lawsuit targeting the botnet's alleged operators.

Computer-security analysts have long since learned to hate “botnets”: clusters of computers, infected with worms or Trojan-horse programs, that are taken over by outside users. After all, botnets can ...

On Tuesday, Google disclosed it recently disrupted a massive network of computers infected by Glupteba. The company estimates the malware has infected approximately one million Windows PCs globally, ...

HACCS is divided into three 16-month phases. By the end of Phase III, the various goals include characterizing 80 percent of the IP address space with 95 percent accuracy, find 1,000 n-day botnet ...

FBI, Facebook join forces to fight "Butterfly Botnet" cyber attack. Dec. 12, 2012— -- The FBI says a "Butterfly Botnet" cyber attack targeted 11 million computer users around the world and was ...

Botnets are networks of computers taken hostage by malware that controls them and makes them send spam and act in other nefarious ways. They’re growing in size, number and impact. A botnet may be ...