A Mirai botnet has started exploiting CVE-2025-29635, a year-old command injection vulnerability in discontinued D-Link ...

The story you are reading is a series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide security advisory. The vulnerability at issue has been exploited for months already, and it’s time for a ...

An apparent Russian script kiddie is converting widespread security gaps into a powerful botnet capable of launching global-scale distributed denial-of-service attacks. See Also: Airlines and Airports ...

Hackers working for the Chinese government are increasingly hiding their attacks behind ready-made networks of hacked routers ...

China-linked actors hide attacks behind botnets of compromised home devices. Cyber defense grows more complex.

A surge in voice phishing attacks on IT helpdesks, a record-breaking botnet driving 2Tbps DDoS assaults, and the widening impact of the April Vercel breach highlight an intensifying global cyber ...

A newly discovered botnet of 13,000 MikroTik devices uses a misconfiguration in domain name server records to bypass email protections and deliver malware by spoofing roughly 20,000 web domains. The ...

The federal government and business are teaming up to help limit the adverse affect of botnets, those networks of hijacked personal computers that spew spam and malware. See Also: AI vs. AI: Leveling ...

Security researchers report the largest tracked botnet has expanded tenfold to 13.5 million devices, fueling record DDoS attacks over 2Tbps. Meanwhile, DNS practices are evolving, with encrypted DNS ...

Two separate Mirai botnet campaigns are exploiting a critical flaw in a somewhat unlikely target. The Akamai Security Intelligence and Response Team recently observed exploitation of CVE-2025-24016, a ...

The biggest security threats facing the U.S. are ‘botnets,’ wrote associate editor of news and commentary for MIT Technology Review Jamie Condliffe. Botnets are networks of internet-connected devices ...

A former security researcher admitted to hijacking a quarter of a million PCs, using spyware to steal bank and PayPal account information, and making money by installing adware on the massive botnet.