Google on Tuesday announced it is pursuing litigation to disrupt a botnet run by operators based out of Russia, among other steps meant to crack down on the group. As part of the effort, Google filed ...

Google LLC today revealed it has disrupted the operations of a large Russian botnet and filed a lawsuit against the operators of the network. The Glupteba botnet and related malware has been around ...

The latest Web technologies can be used to build a secure and distributed file storage system by loading a piece of JavaScript code into users’ Web browsers without them knowing, a researcher ...

Researchers have found what they believe is a previously undiscovered botnet that uses unusually advanced measures to covertly target millions of servers around the world. This story originally ...

The malware’s unique blockchain-enabled backup C2 scheme makes it difficult to eliminate completely. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has disrupted the blockchain-enabled botnet known as Glupteba, ...

ESET researchers recently discovered a previously undocumented botnet that we have named VictoryGate. It has been active since at least May 2019 and, since then, three different variants of the ...

What just happened? The Emotet botnet was dead, or so researchers thought. The malicious network is now back in business with a new phishing campaign, exploiting a novel technique to push users and ...

Emotet, one of today's largest and most dangerous malware botnets, has returned to life after a period of inactivity that lasted nearly four months, since the end of May this year. During that time, ...

A number of botnets are pummeling a nearly year-old command-injection vulnerability in TP-Link routers to compromise the devices for IoT-driven distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. There ...

Google has filed what it claims to be the first ever lawsuit against a blockchain-based botnet, in a bid to ramp-up the pressure on its likely Russian administrators. Glupteba is comprised of around ...