Botnets often make the cybersecurity headlines – but they’re far from the Skynet nightmare that you’d assume at first glance.

Europol has dismantled a major cybercrime infrastructure, disrupting three malware families: Rhadamanthys, VenomRAT, and ...

Sheldon Whitehouse's amendment to tackle botnets in the Senate cyber bill failed. How much good might the legislation have done? Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's (D-R.I.) CISA amendment to tackle botnets ...

The Ngioweb botnet, which supplies most of the 35,000 bots in the cybercriminal NSOCKS proxy service, is being disrupted as security companies block traffic to and from the two networks. Following an ...

The maker of the most popular computer operating system in the world is launching a new strategy against criminal hackers by bringing together security engineers, digital forensics experts and lawyers ...

REDMOND, Washington (Reuters) - The maker of the most popular computer operating system in the world is launching a new strategy against criminal hackers by bringing together security engineers, ...

Google has filed a lawsuit against the operators of a what is believed to be the largest smart TV botnet in the world — BadBox 2.0. The company said in its complaint that this China-based botnet had ...

Companies that work with law enforcement agencies on cybercrime can get valuable information, including lists of hostile IP (Internet Protocol) addresses and information on new types of attacks, a U.S ...

A tech trade group and a leading cybersecurity vendor applauded new legislation introduced in the U.S. Congress that would broaden penalties for cybercrime, including first-time penalties for botnet ...