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.

BBC News reported the development on Aug. 27. According to the police, the botnet was distributed by sending virus-laden emails with offers for erotic pictures or fast cash, and further propogated ...

Zombie armies aren't just invading movie screens these days. They're also taking over the Internet in the form of massive botnets. A botnet is an army of computers, all infected with the same malware, ...

A new botnet appeared over the weekend, and it's targeting Android devices by scanning for open debug ports so it can infect victims with malware that mines the Monero cryptocurrency. The botnet came ...

A malware author has built a huge botnet comprised of over 18,000 routers in the span of only one day. The botnet has been built by exploiting a vulnerability in Huawei HG532 routers, tracked as ...

Malware or malicious computer code has been around in some form or other for over 40 years, but the use of malware to take control of a group of computers that are then organized into something called ...

Just weeks after the discovery of a variant of the Satori botnet targeting computers dedicated to mining cryptocurrency to steal Ethereum coins, researchers have found another botnet mining ...

Sergey Manikin, a joint Moldovan-Russian national who ran a botnet proxy network known as IPStorm that compromised computer systems all over the world, has pled guilty to three counts of violating US ...

Distributed denial of service attacks are becoming more powerful, but the Departments of Commerce and Homeland Security have urged agencies to lead by example in combating them. Phil Goldstein is a ...

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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 ...