If you ever wanted to take an inside view of targeted-botnets primarily run by novice cybercriminals sometimes utilizing outdated, but very effective methods - this ZDNet photo gallery is for you. It ...

Botnets are one of the key drivers of cyberattacks, used to distribute malware, ransomware and other malicious payloads – and dark web forums are now offering lessons on how to make money from them, a ...

Last week, Google announced that it had partially disrupted the operations of a massive botnet—a gargantuan network of over one million malware-infected Windows computers. In the world of ...

In the shadowy world of cyber crime, botnets are becoming increasingly big business. For their creators, the online bots are a way to sit back and rake in the cash. A botnet is essentially a network ...

Federal agencies face a thorny path as they try to step up the government’s fight against armies of infected computers and connected devices known as botnets, responses to a government information ...

There's a ton of spam on the Internet—we all are painfully aware of this already. However, what once required an actual person to send is increasingly being taken over by botnets. A new report (PDF) ...

Zombie PCs are getting smarter and harder to track down, according to security software vendor Commtouch. This is a early hint of a world with more advanced artificial intelligence (AI). The AI could ...

Botnets are responsible for a great deal of the hacking, spamming and malware that we read about in the news, yet public awareness of the hacker’s favorite tool remains relatively limited. The ability ...

When most people think of botnets, they think of problems such as malware attacks, DDoS, phishing and other headache-causing computer security issues. Now, a company is taking botnet technology and ...

Zombie armies aren't just invading movie screens these days. They're also taking over the Internet in the form of massive botnets. A botnet is an army of computers, all infected with the same malware, ...