botnets

This latest resurgence follows a three-month hiatus and tricks users into re-enabling dangerous VBA macros

The company details its new approach to combatting cyber crime as the underground industry drains $6 trillion from the global economy

The 270,000-strong IT Army of Ukraine will now combine supporters' cloud infrastructure to strengthen the daily attacks against their invaders

Recent analysis of Emotet activity has revealed a shift away from malicious Office documents to drop malware

The malware uses DNS tunnelling to communicate with its C2 control server

Researchers confirm the infrastructure has also been upgraded for a "better secured", more resilient operation

The 28-year-old allegedly sold passwords to other criminals on the dark web

An in-depth look at the evolution of this highly effective method of cyber crime

Cryptocurrency-mining botnet Prometei targeting same flaws as Hafnium attacks

The rootkit has added self-propagating capabilities to its arsenal with roughly 100,000 machines already infected

Not all traffic is good. Learn how to prevent bad bots from overrunning your website

Experts urge businesses to stay vigilant as it's unlikely Emotet is down for good

Businesses warned to prioritise security as coronavirus forces many to ply their trade digitally

The Ttint botnet is based heavily on the Mirai malware and includes 12 protocols for remote access

Botnets are more common and coming in more diverse strains than ever before

Recipients ordered to pay $800 in Bitcoin under threat of compromising photos leaking online

2014's Heartbleed takes the top spot for cyber threat searches

More than 1.5 million unique IP addresses have been compromised with the figure only expected to rise

Security researchers have found a new variant of the malicious botnet that grounded some of the world's biggest tech companies

Operating out of Cyprus, this hacker-for-hire knocked the entire country's internet offline - thought to be world first

Malware used to take half the internet offline is being used to build powerful botnets with just a handful of compromised servers

Sophisticated bots and trolls are ‘playing both sides’ of the debate to spread public health myths

Researchers used a machine learning model to weed through 88 million Twitter accounts for bots and spammers