Abstract: Due to Twitter’s potential reach and influence, malicious automated accounts and services have been operating and growing without control. One of the most recognizable is the bot, a piece of ...

Interview Imagine botnets in physical form and you've got a pretty good idea of what could go wrong with the influx of AI-infused humanoid robots expected to integrate into society over the next few ...

Abstract: Evidently, centralised botnets are nowadays considered as easy targets for take-down efforts by law enforcement and computer security researchers. Hence, malicious actors transitioned ...

The botnet attempts to steal credentials from infected TBK DVR devices, in addition to abusing them to launch DDoS attacks. The newly identified Mirai-based Broadside botnet has been targeting ...

From record-breaking DDoS attacks to millions infected by malicious extensions, this week delivered some of the most alarming cyber incidents of the year. I've been writing and editing stories for ...

The Aisuru botnet continues to be responsible for record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, web performance and security firm Cloudflare reported this week. A new record DDoS ...

Cloudflare on Wednesday said it detected and mitigated the largest ever distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that measured at 29.7 terabits per second (Tbps). The activity, the web ...

Time and again, hackers infect other people’s computers as well as routers or other network devices in order to misuse them for their botnet. What’s a botnet, you ask? Simply put, it’s a collection of ...

In just three months, the massive Aisuru botnet launched more than 1,300 distributed denial-of-service attacks, one of them setting a new record with a peak at 29.7 terabits per second. Aisuru is a ...

The notorious botnet known as Aisuru has launched an unprecedented distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, reaching a staggering 29.7 Tbps. Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare reported ...

Attacks on smart devices at home have “exploded” in the past year, turning your innocent looking tech into “exit points for other people’s traffic.” You won’t know until it’s too late. “Your internet ...