French police have located the server of a massive botnet, which had previously been utilized by hackers for XRM cryptojacking. BBC News reported the development on Aug. 27. According to the police, ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today said they arrested the alleged operator of 911 S5, a ten-year-old online anonymity service that was powered by what the director of the FBI called “likely ...

Computer-security analysts have long since learned to hate “botnets”: clusters of computers, infected with worms or Trojan-horse programs, that are taken over by outside users. After all, botnets can ...

Peter Yuryevich Levashov, 38, of St. Petersburg, Russia, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Hartford, Conn., to offenses stemming from his operation of the Kelihos botnet, which he used to ...

One of the largest botnets ever is gone, as an international law enforcement operation led by the U.S. Justice Department shut down the 911 S5 botnet. A botnet is a collection of compromised computers ...

Botnets are networks of computers taken hostage by malware that controls them and makes them send spam and act in other nefarious ways. They’re growing in size, number and impact. A botnet may be ...