In 2024 alone, botnets accounted for 29% of all observed malware, reclaiming their spot at the top of the cyberthreat landscape, according to ForeScout Technologies Inc.’s latest analysis of 900 ...

A top-to-bottom discussion of website bot attacks and how to defend against them. The ebook, worth $40, is now free to ...

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 ...

(WSPA) – What’s worse than getting hacked? How about having no clue that you’re a breach victim. One of the hardest types of hacks to detect are botnets, a network of devices infected with malware.

Contrary to what many assume, a public-private partnership to combat botnets doesn’t have to be initiated or led by the U.S. federal government. Empty cabinets in the new data center of T-Systems, a ...

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 ...

Aisuru smashed previous records with a 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack. It appeared to have focused on telecommunications providers. Seemingly safe and small devices can be weaponized for massive cyberattacks.

Security experts say botnets are increasingly becoming more difficult to trace as criminal hackers have developed clever means to hide them. Botnets are networks of computers infected with code that ...