| Date / Time |
Story |
| Wednesday November 22, 2023 @06:19PM |
Thousands of Routers and Cameras Vulnerable To New 0-Day Attacks By Hostile Botnet |
| Thursday July 20, 2023 @05:30PM |
Ukraine Takes Down Massive Bot Farm, Seizes 150,000 SIM Cards |
| Monday December 05, 2022 @05:41PM |
Judge Orders US Lawyer In Russian Botnet Case To Pay Google |
| Saturday June 18, 2022 @04:46PM |
A Linux Botnet That Spreads Using Stolen SSH Keys |
| Tuesday May 03, 2022 @04:35PM |
Botnet That Hid For 18 Months |
| Wednesday April 06, 2022 @12:53PM |
FBI Operation Aims To Take Down Massive Russian GRU Botnet |
| Monday November 15, 2021 @09:13PM |
Emotet Botnet Returns After Law Enforcement Mass-Uninstall Operation |
| Friday September 10, 2021 @11:56PM |
Krebs Also Hit By Massive DDOS, Apparently Caused by Compromised Routers |
| Friday August 13, 2021 @04:10PM |
Cryptomining Botnet Alters CPU Settings To Boost Mining Performance |
| Monday July 12, 2021 @07:15PM |
Trickbot Strikes Back |
| Friday January 08, 2021 @05:32PM |
A Crypto-Mining Botnet Is Now Stealing Docker and AWS Credentials |
| Sunday November 22, 2020 @12:34AM |
US Congress Passes an IoT Security Bill 'That Doesn't Totally Suck' |
| Wednesday October 21, 2020 @03:26PM |
Microsoft Says It Took Down 94% of TrickBot's Command and Control Servers |
| Sunday October 11, 2020 @06:59PM |
America's 'Cyber Command' Is Trying to Disrupt the World's Largest Botnet |
| Tuesday August 25, 2020 @03:47PM |
A New Botnet Is Covertly Targeting Millions of Servers |
| Tuesday August 04, 2020 @06:13PM |
Hackers Could Use IoT Botnets To Manipulate Energy Markets |
| Tuesday March 10, 2020 @02:13PM |
Microsoft Orchestrates Coordinated Takedown of Necurs Botnet |
| Tuesday February 11, 2020 @06:52PM |
One of the Most Destructive Botnets Can Now Spread To Nearby Wi-Fi Networks |
| Thursday October 03, 2019 @05:09PM |
Dutch Police Take Down Hornets' Nest of DDoS Botnets |
| Thursday September 19, 2019 @06:01PM |
World's Most Destructive Botnet Returns With Stolen Passwords and Email In Tow |
| Monday September 02, 2019 @11:28AM |
Police Hijack a Botnet and Remotely Kill 850,000 Malware Infections |
| Wednesday August 28, 2019 @06:44PM |
Cops Hijack Botnet, Remotely Wipe Malware From 850,000 Computers |
| Friday June 07, 2019 @11:22PM |
Large 'GoldBrute' RDP Botnet Hunts For Exposed Servers With Weak Passwords |
| Wednesday April 17, 2019 @05:11PM |
Bad Bots Now Make Up 20 Percent of Web Traffic |
| Tuesday April 09, 2019 @06:22PM |
New Variants of Mirai Botnet Detected, Targeting More IoT Devices |
| Monday March 18, 2019 @04:58PM |
New Mirai Malware Variant Targets Signage TVs and Presentation Systems |
| Friday March 01, 2019 @07:01PM |
Qbot Malware Resurfaces In New Attack Against Businesses |
| Monday January 21, 2019 @03:12PM |
We'll Likely See a Rise in Internet Blackouts in 2019 |
| Friday January 11, 2019 @08:04PM |
Do Social Media Bots Have a Right To Free Speech? |
| Saturday December 29, 2018 @08:46PM |
How Much Internet Traffic Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually. |
| Tuesday November 13, 2018 @01:08AM |
A 100,000-Router Botnet Is Feeding On a 5-Year-Old UPnP Bug In Broadcom Chips |
| Monday August 06, 2018 @08:02PM |
Researchers Discover Large Twitter Botnet Pushing Ethereum Scam |
| Wednesday May 23, 2018 @07:47PM |
FBI Seizes Control of Russian Botnet |
| Wednesday December 13, 2017 @02:19PM |
Mirai IoT Botnet Co-Authors Plead Guilty |
| Sunday December 03, 2017 @08:31PM |
How 'Grinch Bots' Are Ruining Online Christmas Shopping |
| Saturday November 04, 2017 @12:45AM |
A Third of the Internet Experienced DoS Attacks in the Last Two Years |
| Thursday November 02, 2017 @08:17PM |
Malware Developer Who Used Spam Botnet To Pay For College Gets No Prison Time |
| Saturday October 21, 2017 @02:26PM |
2 Million IoT Devices Enslaved By Fast-Growing BotNet |
| Saturday October 21, 2017 @09:51AM |
A Gigantic IoT Botnet Has Grown in the Shadows in the Past Month |
| Tuesday September 12, 2017 @06:17PM |
At Least 1.65 Million Computers Are Mining Cryptocurrency For Hackers So Far This Year |
| Tuesday August 29, 2017 @09:00PM |
Massive New Spambot Ensnares 711,000,000 Email Addresses |
| Monday August 28, 2017 @02:29PM |
Tech Firms Team Up To Take Down 'WireX' Android DDoS Botnet |
| Monday August 28, 2017 @02:12PM |
A Year After Mirai: DVR Torture Chamber Test Shows Two Minutes Between Exploits |
| Friday August 25, 2017 @06:46PM |
Who's Responsible For IoT Security? |
| Saturday May 20, 2017 @05:08PM |
Attackers DDoS WannaCry Kill Switch |
| Saturday May 20, 2017 @02:57AM |
Groups War Over Resources For DDoS Attacks |
| Sunday May 14, 2017 @07:06PM |
FCC Suspends Net Neutrality Comments, As Chairman Pai Mocks 'Mean Tweets' |
| Wednesday May 10, 2017 @08:24PM |
New IoT Malware Targets 100,000 IP Cameras Via Known Flaw |
| Saturday May 06, 2017 @01:27AM |
New Shodan Tool Tracks Down Botnet Command-And-Control Servers |
| Tuesday April 25, 2017 @02:26AM |
BrickerBot, the Permanent Denial-of-Service Botnet, Is Back With a Vengeance |
| Friday April 21, 2017 @05:57PM |
Developer of BrickerBot Malware Claims He Destroyed Over Two Million Devices |
| Thursday April 06, 2017 @04:16PM |
New Destructive Malware Intentionally Bricks IoT Devices |
| Wednesday March 29, 2017 @11:47PM |
UW Professor: The Information War Is Real, and We're Losing It |
| Saturday March 18, 2017 @01:24AM |
Bruce Schneier Calls for IoT Legislation, Argues The Internet Is Becoming One Giant Robot |
| Saturday February 25, 2017 @05:55PM |
UK Police Arrest Suspect Behind Mirai Malware Attacks On Deutsche Telekom |
| Friday February 24, 2017 @04:50PM |
World's Largest Spam Botnet Adds DDoS Feature |
| Thursday February 23, 2017 @05:06PM |
Study Reveals Bot-On-Bot Editing Wars Raging On Wikipedia's Pages |
| Saturday February 11, 2017 @06:50PM |
College Network Attacked With Its Own Insecure IoT Devices |
| Wednesday February 08, 2017 @04:22PM |
Programmer Develops Phone Bot To Target Windows Support Scammers |
| Sunday February 05, 2017 @04:46PM |
14,000 Domains Dropped Dyn's DNS Service After Mirai Attack |
| Sunday February 05, 2017 @02:33PM |
Can The Mayhem AI Automate Bug-Patching? |
| Tuesday January 24, 2017 @06:01PM |
Researchers Discover Massive Networks of Fake Twitter Accounts |
| Thursday January 19, 2017 @08:54AM |
Krebs Pinpoints the Likely Author of the Mirai Botnet |
| Wednesday December 28, 2016 @01:59PM |
Bigger Than Mirai: Leet Botnet Delivers 650 Gbps DDoS Attack |
| Tuesday December 20, 2016 @04:49PM |
Russian Hackers Stole $5 Million Per Day From Advertisers With Bots and Fake Websites |
| Sunday December 18, 2016 @06:55PM |
Ubuntu Survey Discovers 'Consumers Are Terrible' About Updating Their IoT Devices |
| Sunday December 18, 2016 @05:43PM |
The FBI Is Arresting People Who Rent DDoS Botnets |
| Saturday December 17, 2016 @03:25PM |
Massive Mirai Botnet Hides Its Control Servers On Tor |
| Saturday December 10, 2016 @12:28AM |
A 'Turkish Hacker' Is Giving Out Prizes For DDoS Attacks |
| Friday December 09, 2016 @10:10PM |
US Think Tank Wants To Regulate The Design of IoT Devices For Security Purposes |
| Thursday December 01, 2016 @07:21PM |
International Authorities Take Down Massive 'Avalanche' Botnet, Sinkhole Over 800,000 Domains |
| Sunday November 27, 2016 @06:30PM |
You Can Now Rent A Mirai Botnet Of 400,000 Bots |
| Friday November 25, 2016 @09:24PM |
Russian Propaganda Effort Helped Spread 'Fake News' During Election, Experts Say |
| Sunday November 20, 2016 @07:23PM |
Ask Slashdot: Could A 'Smart Firewall' Protect IoT Devices? |
| Tuesday November 08, 2016 @06:03PM |
4chan May Have Brought Down Pro-Clinton Phone Lines Before Election Day |
| Thursday November 03, 2016 @03:14PM |
Mirai Botnet Attackers Are Trying To Knock Liberia Offline |
| Tuesday November 01, 2016 @06:05PM |
New, More-Powerful IoT Botnet Infects 3,500 Devices In 5 Days |
| Wednesday October 26, 2016 @05:08PM |
How Vigilante Hackers Could Stop the Internet of Things Botnet |
| Wednesday October 26, 2016 @04:09PM |
Dyn DNS DDoS Likely The Work of Script Kiddies, Says FlashPoint |
| Monday October 24, 2016 @12:18AM |
Slashdot Asks: How Can We Prevent Packet-Flooding DDOS Attacks? |
| Sunday October 23, 2016 @12:09AM |
Dyn Executive Responds To Friday's DDOS Attack |
| Saturday October 22, 2016 @02:07PM |
John McAfee Thinks North Korea Hacked Dyn, and Iran Hacked the DNC |
| Friday October 21, 2016 @05:39PM |
Mirai and Bashlight Join Forces Against DNS Provider Dyn |
| Friday October 14, 2016 @12:42AM |
DHS Warns of Mirai Botnet Threat To Cellular Modems |
| Friday October 07, 2016 @08:06PM |
MITRE Dangles $50,000 Prize For Spotting Rogue Internet of Things Devices |
| Sunday October 02, 2016 @04:39PM |
Krebs Warns Source Code Leaked From Massive IoT Botnet Attack |
| Tuesday September 27, 2016 @04:42PM |
OVH Hosting Suffers From Record 1Tbps DDoS Attack Driven By 150K Devices |
| Monday September 26, 2016 @12:38AM |
Ask Slashdot: Is My IoT Device Part of a Botnet? |
| Saturday September 24, 2016 @11:20AM |
Spam Hits Its Highest Level Since 2010 |
| Sunday September 11, 2016 @07:55AM |
IoT Devices With Default Telnet Passwords Used As Botnet |
| Thursday August 18, 2016 @06:31PM |
'Smart' Electrical Socket Leaks Your Email Address, Can Launch DDoS Attacks |
| Friday August 12, 2016 @07:47PM |
LinkedIn Suffers Huge Bot Attack That Steals Members' Personal Data |
| Monday June 27, 2016 @05:57PM |
A Massive Botnet of CCTV Cameras Involved In Ferocious DDoS Attacks |
| Tuesday June 21, 2016 @06:15PM |
3 Million Strong Botnet Grows Right Under Twitter's Nose |
| Tuesday June 21, 2016 @06:10PM |
3 Million Strong Botnet Grows Right Under Twitter's Nose |
| Sunday June 19, 2016 @05:22PM |
Hackers Used Nearly One Million IPs to Brute-Force a Financial Institution |
| Sunday June 12, 2016 @04:02AM |
Ransomware Thieves Cost Canada University C$20,000 In Bitcoin |
| Saturday May 21, 2016 @07:22PM |
Ransomware Adds DDoS Attacks To Annoy More People |
| Saturday May 14, 2016 @12:04PM |
Police Reveal Tactics For Fighting Botnets |
| Tuesday May 10, 2016 @10:26AM |
This Unusual Botnet Targets Scientists, Engineers, and Academics |
| Tuesday April 19, 2016 @07:15PM |
Security Firm Discovers Secret Plan To Hack Numerous Websites and Forums |
| Tuesday April 12, 2016 @10:41AM |
BAE Systems Warns About Shape-Shifting Strain of Qbot Malware |
| Thursday February 25, 2016 @09:40AM |
Google Releases Project Shield To Fight Against DDoS Attacks |
| Friday February 05, 2016 @06:31PM |
Online Museum Displays Decades of Malware |
| Tuesday December 29, 2015 @09:02AM |
ProxyBack Malware Turns Infected Computers into Internet Proxies |
| Monday December 28, 2015 @01:01AM |
Pwnd Aethra Routers Used To Brute-Force WordPress Sites |
| Friday December 25, 2015 @06:35PM |
Pwnd Aethra Routers Used To Brute-Force WordPress Sites |
| Monday October 26, 2015 @12:55PM |
Despite Takedown, the Dridex Botnet Is Running Again |
| Tuesday September 01, 2015 @11:24AM |
Ask Slashdot: Should I Publish My Collection of Email Spamming IP Addresses? |
| Friday August 21, 2015 @11:00PM |
WordPress Hacks Behind Surging Neutrino EK Traffic |
| Tuesday August 04, 2015 @12:01PM |
Cleaning Up Botnets Takes Years, May Never Be Completed |
| Wednesday September 03, 2014 @12:04PM |
Akamai Warns: Linux Systems Infiltrated and Controlled In a DDoS Botnet |
| Wednesday August 06, 2014 @09:33AM |
Alleged Massive Account and Password Seizure By Russian Group |
| Monday July 28, 2014 @11:53AM |
Internet Census 2012 Data Examined: Authentic, But Chaotic and Unethical |
| Thursday July 17, 2014 @01:22PM |
Pushdo Trojan Infects 11,000 Systems In 24 Hours |
| Saturday October 05, 2013 @02:00PM |
The Hail Mary Cloud and the Lessons Learned |
| Tuesday October 01, 2013 @07:52AM |
Sinkhole Sucks Brains From Wasteful Bitcoin Mining Botnet |
| Thursday September 05, 2013 @12:19PM |
Security Company Attributes Tor Traffic Surge To Botnet |
| Wednesday May 29, 2013 @09:47AM |
Ruby On Rails Exploit Used To Build IRC Botnet |
| Wednesday May 01, 2013 @07:05PM |
E-Sports League Stuffed Bitcoin Mining Code Inside Client Software |
| Thursday March 21, 2013 @01:36PM |
New OS X Trojan Adware Injects Ads Into Chrome, Firefox, Safari |
| Wednesday March 20, 2013 @11:20AM |
Botnet Uses Default Passwords To Conduct "Internet Census 2012" |
| Wednesday March 20, 2013 @06:48AM |
Chameleon Botnet Costs Advertisers £4M Every Month |
| Friday February 08, 2013 @01:46AM |
Rich Countries Suffer Less Malware, Says Microsoft Study |
| Sunday January 13, 2013 @05:31AM |
Alleged ZeuS Botmaster Arrested For Stealing $100M From US Banks |
| Sunday December 09, 2012 @07:07PM |
Tor network used to command Skynet botnet |
| Thursday September 13, 2012 @02:54PM |
Microsoft Disrupts Nitol Botnet |
| Sunday September 09, 2012 @05:34PM |
Arizona Botnet Controller Draws 30-Month Federal Sentence |
| Tuesday August 28, 2012 @11:27AM |
A Month After Grum Botnet Takedown, Spam Back To Previous Levels |
| Tuesday August 28, 2012 @10:51AM |
Grum Botnet: Down One Month, No Impact on Spam |
| Friday August 24, 2012 @06:31PM |
The Attacker's Trade-Off: Stealth Versus Resilience |
| Thursday July 19, 2012 @10:36AM |
New Round of Server Take-Downs Fells Grum Botnet |
| Thursday July 19, 2012 @07:14AM |
Grum Botnet Bites The Dust |
| Tuesday July 17, 2012 @05:51PM |
Dutch Police Takedown C&Cs Used By Grum Botnet |
| Tuesday July 17, 2012 @11:18AM |
Dutch Police Takedown C&Cs Used by Grum Botnet |
| Wednesday May 30, 2012 @04:37PM |
White House Announces Initiative to Fight Botnets |
| Wednesday May 23, 2012 @07:26PM |
Four years' jail for Bredolab botnet author |
| Tuesday April 10, 2012 @09:26PM |
Apple to release Flashback removal software, working to take down botnet |
| Monday April 09, 2012 @08:36PM |
Apple Snubs Security Firm That Spotted Mac Botnet |
| Thursday March 29, 2012 @03:23PM |
Kelihos Returns: Same Botnet or New Version? |
| Thursday March 29, 2012 @08:27AM |
MacControl Trojan Being Used In Targeted Attacks Against OS X Users |
| Wednesday March 28, 2012 @01:35PM |
Kaspersky Takes Down Kelihos Botnet Again, Expects Return |
| Wednesday March 28, 2012 @12:28PM |
Taking Down DNSChanger: A First Person Account |
| Wednesday March 28, 2012 @12:01PM |
Researchers Take Down 110k Strong Khelios P2P Botnet |
| Wednesday March 28, 2012 @11:52AM |
A First Person Account of DNSChanger Takedown Operation and Clean-Up Task |
| Tuesday March 27, 2012 @01:41PM |
Political Party's Leadership Election Attacked by DDoS |
| Monday March 26, 2012 @03:07PM |
Microsoft Leads Sting Operation Against Zeus Botnets |
| Tuesday March 13, 2012 @06:58PM |
New Windows RDP Flaw allows unauthenticated code execution |
| Saturday February 25, 2012 @12:55PM |
New ZeuS Botnet No Longer Needs Central Command Servers |
| Friday February 24, 2012 @12:12PM |
New ZeuS botnet no longer needs Central Command Servers |
| Thursday February 23, 2012 @01:19AM |
Disconnection of Millions of DNSChanger-Infected PCs Delayed |
| Thursday February 16, 2012 @09:46AM |
New Waledec Botnet Variant Sniffs Passwords |
| Saturday February 11, 2012 @11:31PM |
Tools, Techniques, Procedures of the RSA Hackers Revealed |
| Thursday February 02, 2012 @06:41PM |
Kelihos botnet comes back to life |
| Tuesday January 24, 2012 @04:06PM |
Microsoft Names Reputed Head of Kelihos Botnet |
| Tuesday January 24, 2012 @02:23PM |
Microsoft Names Reputed Head of Kelihos Botnet |
| Tuesday January 17, 2012 @11:38AM |
Koobface Malware Traced To 5 Russians |
| Tuesday January 17, 2012 @11:33AM |
Creators of the Koobface malware named |
| Monday October 31, 2011 @12:06PM |
Microsoft Drops Suit Against Firm In Botnet Case |
| Saturday October 29, 2011 @11:49AM |
Microsoft Drops Suit Against firm in Botnet Case |
| Friday September 30, 2011 @04:48PM |
The Inside Story of the Kelihos Takedown |
| Tuesday September 27, 2011 @03:29PM |
Microsoft Disables Kelihos Botnet |
| Saturday September 17, 2011 @09:47AM |
SpyEye Botnet Nets Fraudster $3.2M in Six Months |
| Tuesday July 12, 2011 @11:18AM |
Spammers Prefer Compromised Accounts To Botnets |
| Thursday July 07, 2011 @11:14PM |
Microsoft: No Botnet Is Indestructible |
| Thursday June 30, 2011 @09:40PM |
Massive Botnet "Indestructible," Say Researchers |
| Friday May 06, 2011 @03:38AM |
Multiplatform Java Botnet Spotted In the Wild |
| Friday April 15, 2011 @06:16PM |
Former Internet Vigilante Gets Two Years For DDoS |
| Wednesday April 13, 2011 @08:55PM |
DOJ Gets Court Permission To Attack Botnet |
| Thursday April 07, 2011 @12:33PM |
Two Years After Conficker, Are We Still at Risk? |
| Tuesday March 29, 2011 @11:32AM |
Spam Drops 1/3 After Rustock Botnet Gets Crushed |
| Tuesday March 29, 2011 @09:54AM |
Spam Drops 1/3 After Rustock Botnet Gets Crushed |
| Thursday January 27, 2011 @10:25PM |
Years-Old Conficker Worm Still a Threat |
| Thursday January 27, 2011 @03:33PM |
Years-old Conficker Worm Still A Threat |
| Thursday January 27, 2011 @02:53PM |
Hackers Bringing Telnet Back |
| Thursday January 27, 2011 @11:51AM |
Hackers Increasingly Using Twitter For Botnets |
| Tuesday January 11, 2011 @12:53PM |
Microsoft Looking Into Windows Phone 7's 'Excessive' Data Use |
| Wednesday January 05, 2011 @01:51PM |
Storm Botnet Returns As Part of New Year's Attacks |
| Friday December 17, 2010 @10:01PM |
Raising a Botnet In Captivity |
| Monday December 13, 2010 @10:48AM |
Operation Payback and Hactivism 101 |
| Sunday December 12, 2010 @09:29PM |
Has Progress Been Made In Fighting DDoS Attacks? |
| Friday December 10, 2010 @10:28PM |
'Anonymous' WikiLeaks Proponents Not So Anonymous |
| Thursday December 09, 2010 @10:54AM |
Operation Payback's Command and Control System |
| Saturday November 13, 2010 @01:32PM |
Researchers Take Down Koobface Servers |
| Saturday November 13, 2010 @03:29AM |
Researchers take down Koobface servers |
| Thursday November 04, 2010 @12:24PM |
Massive DDoS Cuts Myanmar Off From Net |
| Wednesday October 27, 2010 @02:16AM |
Rise of the Small Botnet |
| Tuesday October 26, 2010 @07:09PM |
Bredolab Botnet Taken Down |
| Tuesday October 26, 2010 @09:01AM |
Rise of the Small Botnet |
| Tuesday October 26, 2010 @01:33AM |
Iranian Cyber Army moves into botnets |
| Tuesday October 19, 2010 @06:19PM |
Hacker Business Models |
| Thursday October 14, 2010 @01:00AM |
US Reigns As Most Bot-Infected Country |
| Wednesday October 13, 2010 @07:43PM |
Microsoft looks to courts for botnet takedowns |
| Tuesday October 05, 2010 @03:17PM |
Should ISPs Cut Off Bot-infected Users? |
| Tuesday October 05, 2010 @02:57PM |
Should ISPs cut off bot-infected users? |
| Thursday September 30, 2010 @06:46PM |
US, NY Bust 92 Mules In 'ZeuS Trojan' Crime Ring |
| Wednesday September 01, 2010 @01:05PM |
"Do-it-Yourself" Botnet Kits Gain Momentum |
| Saturday August 28, 2010 @08:55PM |
Researchers Cripple Pushdo Botnet |
| Wednesday August 04, 2010 @11:12AM |
Large Zeus Botnet Used For Financial Fraud |
| Thursday July 29, 2010 @01:38PM |
Suspected Mariposa Botnet Creator Arrested |
