Botnet malware: What it is and how to fight it Malware or malicious computer code has been around in some form or other for over 40 years, but the use of malware to take control of a group of ...

Botnet code is often hidden using “crypters,” specialized tools such as the “God of War Crypter,” to hide malware through encryption.

Las Vegas -- The bad news is if you click on the wrong online ad, your browser can be immediately enlisted in a botnet carrying out a denial of service attack to take down Web sites.

The code, which uses JavaScript to turn any Web browser into a hacker's tool, was created as a demonstration of how JavaScript can be used to dodge security measures ...

Botnet operators use the source code of IoT malware that previously leaked online in past years as a wireframe for the delivery of random exploits they've copied from ExploitDB.

One of two "hackers" allegedly responsible for a botnet attack in 2006 has agreed to plead guilty to charges that he built the botnet with the intent to sell its services to criminals. David ...

A hacker has released the working code for a Huawei router exploit used by the Satori botnet over the holiday season as a freebie for cyberattackers seeking to target Huawei devices or bolster ...

Hackers are launching DDos attacks using coordinated attacks from Internet-connected devices.

The latest version of ZeuS botnet toolkit includes a $10,000 module that can let attackers take complete control of a compromised PC.

The researchers then ran the botnet code on a virtual machine and analyzed the movement of information to and from a computer’s registers–memory components within a machine’s processor ...