Browser extensions can be just as dangerous as regular apps, and their integration with the tool everyone’s constantly using can make them seem erroneously innocuous. Case in point: a collection of ...

Cyber criminals are exploiting IoT devices in homes to create a botnet called BADBOX 2.0, enabling illegal online activities. Most compromised devices are manufactured in China and become infected ...

SafeBreach researchers demonstrate how attackers can crash Windows domain controllers and build a botnet using unauthenticated RPC and LDAP vulnerabilities. At DEF CON 33, security researchers ...

A new report out today from Fortinet Inc.’s FortiGuard Labs details the activities of two different botnets observed through October and November that are being spread through vulnerabilities in ...

Researchers at cybersecurity software provider Qualys Inc. are warning of a new Mirai botnet variant that’s being used to target vulnerabilities in AVTECH Cameras and Huawei HG523 routers. The variant ...

A newly discovered network botnet comprising an estimated 30,000 webcams and video recorders—with the largest concentration in the US—has been delivering what is likely to be the biggest ...

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 ...

For the past week, the massive “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet known as Kimwolf has been disrupting The Invisible Internet Project (I2P), a decentralized, encrypted communications network designed ...

Most people who own a computer infected with botnet malware have no idea their machine is compromised. The software is designed to stay hidden, quietly connecting to remote servers, executing ...