This story was originally published on February 24, and was updated on March 16 to include new information about affected devices and the number of victims. The new malware, which the agencies call ...

Hackers resurrect 90s IRC tricks with SSHStalker, using old exploits to quietly compromise thousands of Linux servers ...

Despite the disruption of the Cyclops Blink botnet, the vulnerability in WatchGuard firewalls used to build it persists, and it has now been added to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security ...

Recent large-scale botnet events, such as those used to disrupt Twitter and Facebook, have been highly publicized in the news. While these high-profile security events have been hard to miss, it's the ...

The FBI in March targeted and disabled the command and control communications of a botnet controlled by the infamous Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) hacking team Sandworm, ...

With the rise in the digital presence of businesses, comes the threat of botnets. In the first quarter of 2020, Kaspersky recorded a significant rise in the quantity and quality of DDoS attacks ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation wrested control of thousands of routers and firewall appliances away from Russian military hackers by hijacking the very same devices Moscow's spies had been using ...

Smart city devices have the potential to be hacked and used against the very cities that deployed them. Here’s how that threat can be mitigated. Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family ...

KrebsOnSecurity is often the target of disgruntled cybercriminals and has now been targeted by a large and powerful botnet. The website, operated by security expert Brian Krebs, was subject to an ...