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Smart TV botnet NetNut secretly rented millions of home IPs to criminals. The FBI and Google shut it down - here's how to ...

What we know so far: A coordinated effort by US law enforcement and private-sector researchers has disrupted a major residential proxy network that turned everyday consumer devices into tools for ...

The latest generation of botnets, architected into large-scale multi-tiered proxy networks, is making traditional ...

The story you are reading is a series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide security advisory. The vulnerability at issue has been exploited for months already, and it’s time for a ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated ...

The NetNut proxy network and the ‘Popa’ botnet are known to have infected devices with variants of Mirai DDoS botnets ...

Residential proxy service linked to around two million devices was being used by cybercriminal and espionage groups ...

In a case described by a Commerce Department official as something "ripped from a screenplay," 35-year-old Chinese national YunHe Wang has been accused of operating an international botnet. This ...

As a follow-up to last week’s article on detecting the presence of a botnet on your network, I have more advice from experts in this arena. IBM’s Internet Security Systems X-Force gives specific ...

A Chinese-controlled botnet of tens of thousands of unpatched internet-connected firewalls, network attached storage devices, internet-connected surveillance cameras, and small office/home office ...

If you (like me) have been under the impression that botnets are no big deal, it’s time to realize what a big threat they are to legitimate businesses and organizations. Corporate PCs that are turned ...