Computer-security analysts have long since learned to hate “botnets”: clusters of computers, infected with worms or Trojan-horse programs, that are taken over by outside users. After all, botnets can ...

A computer botnet is known to have breached almost 75,000 computers in 2,500 organizations around the world, including user accounts of popular social network Web sites, according Internet security ...

A computer can hum along like everything works perfectly while quietly doing something far more sinister behind the scenes. Cybercriminals love that illusion because it keeps their operations ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today said they arrested the alleged operator of 911 S5, a ten-year-old online anonymity service that was powered by what the director of the FBI called “likely ...

(WSPA) – What’s worse than getting hacked? How about having no clue that you’re a breach victim. One of the hardest types of hacks to detect are botnets, a network of devices infected with malware.

Peter Yuryevich Levashov, 38, of St. Petersburg, Russia, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Hartford, Conn., to offenses stemming from his operation of the Kelihos botnet, which he used to ...

One of the largest botnets ever is gone, as an international law enforcement operation led by the U.S. Justice Department shut down the 911 S5 botnet. A botnet is a collection of compromised computers ...

A Russian national was sentenced to two years in U.S. federal prison and ordered to pay over $1.6 million as a result of a ransomware and computer botnet scheme, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the ...

Botnets are networks of computers taken hostage by malware that controls them and makes them send spam and act in other nefarious ways. They’re growing in size, number and impact. A botnet may be ...

Deborah Hale knows firsthand how bots can bring an enterprise to its knees. A computer security specialist for Sioux City, Iowa-based BCP Enterprise Inc., she had a nasty run-in with bots in September ...

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 ...