Kimwolf is a botnet that surfaced in late 2025 and quickly infected millions of systems, turning poorly secured IoT devices like TV streaming boxes, digital picture frames and routers into relays for ...

The SSHStalker Linux botnet has ensnared 7,000 systems, deploying various scanners and malware, an IRC bot, and multiple kernel exploits.

Security researchers say they have observed what they believe is a takedown of the notorious Mozi botnet that infiltrated more than a million Internet of Things devices worldwide. In research shared ...

Part of the malicious domain used in recent Trickbot campaign (Source: Menlo Security) The Trickbot botnet appears to be making a comeback this month with a fresh campaign that is targeting insurance ...

A newly discovered botnet is compromising poorly-protected Linux servers by brute-forcing weak SSH password login authentication. Researchers at Canada-based Flare Systems, who discovered the botnet, ...

It's not often that malware authors go through the effort of creating a malicious tool for assembling a botnet, only to then find a way to effectively sabotage it themselves. But that appears to be ...

The newly discovered malware infects IoT devices in tandem with the prolific Gafgyt botnet, using known security vulnerabilities. A recently developed botnet named “Simps” has emerged from the ...

The news comes just weeks after the U.S. announced it went on the offensive against a China-linked botnet operation. The FBI disrupted a botnet operation managed by Russia’s Main Intelligence ...

With the rise in the digital presence of businesses, comes the threat of botnets. In the first quarter of 2020, Kaspersky recorded a significant rise in the quantity and quality of DDoS attacks ...

Researchers found that the Torpig botnet, a malware program designed to harvest and steal sensitive information from users' computers, stole thousands of bank accounts and credit card numbers worth ...