The U.S. Department of Justice, in collaboration with international law enforcement agencies, says it has taken down a large botnet and arrested its administrator, YunHe Wang. The botnet, called 911 ...

A large peer-to-peer botnet known for its resilience was spotted sniffing out potential victim voice-over-IP (VoIP) servers using an advanced stealth technique of camouflaging its efforts to recruit ...

A Chinese national has been arrested for his role in operating a residential proxy service that was used to defraud billions of dollars from the U.S. government and fund his lavish lifestyle, which ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Agencies in Europe and the United States have carried out two major operations against botnets this week, including a U.S.

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 DOJ partnered with the FBI and international law enforcement to shut down a global malware network that stole $5.9 billion of Covid relief funds and is linked to other crimes. Chinese national ...

A botnet used for illicit cryptocurrency mining activities is abusing Bitcoin (BTC) transactions to stay under the radar. According to new research published by Akamai on Tuesday, the technique is ...

A high-severity vulnerability plaguing old Cisco routers is being used to build a malicious, global botnet, experts have warned. Cybersecurity researchers Sekoia published an in-depth report on the ...

A critical command injection vulnerability impacting the Edimax IC-7100 IP camera is currently being exploited by botnet malware to compromise devices. The flaw was discovered by Akamai researchers, ...

The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that Federal Bureau of Investigation took down the network and infrastructure of a botnet proxy service called IPStorm. IPStorm enabled cybercriminals to ...