In recent days you may have heard about the terrifying botnet consisting of 3 million electric toothbrushes that were infected with malware. While you absent-mindedly attended to your oral hygiene, ...

Two separate Mirai botnet campaigns are exploiting a critical flaw in a somewhat unlikely target. The Akamai Security Intelligence and Response Team recently observed exploitation of CVE-2025-24016, a ...

The perpetual proliferation of botnets is hardly surprising when one considers just how easy it is for the bad guys to hijack computers without tipping off the users. Slideshow: 10 of the Worst ...

A huge network of more than 3 million devices has been disrupted in an operation targeting DDoS botnets.

When the Waledac botnet was dismantled by a security community-wide effort earlier this year, spam traffic immediately and discernibly dropped in a big way. But the researchers who worked in the ...

Are there Botnet controlled hosts on your network? Are your hosts infected with malware or spyware that is trying to “phone-home”? How would you know? One way to find out is to employ Cisco ASA’s new ...