Botnets often make the cybersecurity headlines – but they’re far from the Skynet nightmare that you’d assume at first glance. Botnets aren’t some sort of sci-fi AI hivemind, admittedly, but they are ...

German authorities have shut down two of the world’s largest "botnets" as part of a joint three-nation operation. Each of the ...

A newly discovered network botnet comprising an estimated 30,000 webcams and video recorders—with the largest concentration in the US—has been delivering what is likely to be the biggest ...

A newly discovered botnet of 13,000 MikroTik devices uses a misconfiguration in domain name server records to bypass email protections and deliver malware by spoofing roughly 20,000 web domains. The ...

A botnet known as "GoBruteforcer" is compromising a wide range of servers that researchers suspect use AI-generated configurations, enlisting them into a botnet that can serve many different purposes.