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Four little-known botnets were behind half of all botnet infiltrations in enterprises last year -- and the No. 1 botnet hitting corporate networks carried the infamous Zeus crimeware. Damballa, which ...

A novel Go-based Linux botnet, dubbed "PumaBot," has been observed targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices. PumaBot differentiates itself from typical botnets by remotely retrieving a list of ...

The Necurs botnet has increased in prevalence since the US Thanksgiving holiday, as cyber-criminals use it to distribute a new form of ransomware, according to Check Point’s latest Global Threat ...

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 ...

For the past few weeks, a threat actor who goes online by the name of "Subby" has taken over the IoT DDoS botnets of 29 other hackers, ZDNet has learned. The hacker exploited the fact that some botnet ...