In the security industry, researchers have often been able to infiltrate botnets. Yet, the next step has always been a big question mark. Now, defenders may have a new slate of options. The takedown ...

The FBI recently took down nation-state botnet, Russian Snake (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-nukes-russian-snake-data-theft-malware-with-self ...

The Justice Department and FBI's operation to derail the 7-year-old Coreflood botnet set a precedent for how these criminal networks will be targeted by law enforcement, and the relatively old-school ...

Security researchers say they have observed what they believe is a takedown of the notorious Mozi botnet that infiltrated more than a million Internet of Things devices worldwide. In research shared ...

Security firm FireEye helps bring down the world's third-largest spam botnet, and its spam drops from a deluge down to a trickle One down, two more to go? On Wednesday a Russian Internet service ...

Chinese Volt Typhoon state hackers failed to revive a botnet recently taken down by the FBI, which was previously used in attacks targeting critical infrastructure across the United States. Before ...

The Chinese state threat actor most famously known as Volt Typhoon is staging a significant comeback after its botnet infrastructure was disrupted in a US-led takedown at the beginning of February ...

Researchers are hoping to get a better insight on botnets after taking down part of Pushdo, one of the top five networks of hacked computers responsible for most of the world's spam. Researchers are ...

Microsoft has seen a dramatic drop in the number of computers infected with Waledac, a piece of malicious software affiliated with a botnet that was once responsible for a massive amount of spam. In ...

Security researchers say they have observed what they believe is a takedown of the notorious Mozi botnet that infiltrated more than a million Internet of Things devices worldwide. In research shared ...