Botnets are a prevailing threat in the cybersecurity world – but what exactly are they, and how do they work? Here's what you need to know.

Last week, security company Trend Micro said it also found an IoT botnet. The botnet, which is driven by variants of Mirai ...

Cloudflare says the attack against an East Asian ISP came from 13,000 devices infected with a variant of the notorious Mirai malware.

Unbeknownst to her, her refrigerator had been recruited into a botnet—a network of hacked devices—used by cybercriminals to launch attacks. Botnets, composed of ordinary devices like phones ...

Infoblox researchers have discovered a large-scale botnet operation that turns misconfigured routers into zombie botnets, with at least 13,000 compromised routers acting as proxies for the malware.

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.

A relatively new Mirai-based botnet has been growing in sophistication and is now leveraging zero-day exploits for security flaws in industrial routers and smart home devices. Exploitation of ...