Without a doubt, botnets focused on cryptocurrency mining operations have been one of the most active forms of malware infections in 2018. New botnets are appearing left and right if we are to believe ...

After infecting Fiberhome routers, its sole purpose seems to be setting up SOCKS5 proxies. An odd botnet has been spotted targeting Fiberhome routers, in a quest to add 200 of them per day to its ...

A new module allows it to be rented to other malicious actors — and it’s likely other new capabilities are coming down the pike. TheMoon, an IoT botnet targeting home routers and modems, is entering a ...

Launched in March 2008, AWM Proxy quickly became the largest service for crooks seeking to route their malicious Web traffic through compromised devices. In 2011, researchers at Kaspersky Lab showed ...

Consisting of over 1.8 million infected devices, the Kimwolf Android Botnet focuses on traffic proxying, but can also launch ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation today revealed that it has dismantled the IPStorm botnet proxy network and arrested a Russian and Moldovan national accused of running the network. The accused ...

The US authorities have shut down a major botnet comprising tens of thousands of infected endpoints, which cyber-criminals hired to launch various attacks anonymously. The IPStorm botnet and its ...

Denis Emelyantsev, a 36-year-old Russian man accused of running a massive botnet called RSOCKS that stitched malware into millions of devices worldwide, pleaded guilty to two counts of computer crime ...

Kimwolf botnet infected 1.8 million Android TV devices and issued 1.7 billion DDoS commands, using ENS to hide its control ...

The massive Kimwolf Android botnet briefly surpassed Google in traffic. It has infected 1.8 million devices and is capable of ...

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has dismantled the infrastructure of what it described as a Russian botnet consisting of millions of hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices. According to the DoJ, ...

Some 9,000 devices—mostly running Android, but also the Linux and Darwin operating Systems—have been corralled into the Interplanetary Storm, the name given to a botnet whose chief purpose is creating ...