In a rare move, government officials have handed security researchers a seized server believed to be used by North Korean hackers to launch dozens of targeted attacks last year. Known as Operation ...

When hackers corral infected computers into a botnet, they take special care to ensure they don’t lose control of the server that sends commands and updates to the compromised devices. The precautions ...

Past efforts at killing botnets—the large networks of computers running malicious software to send spam, flood websites with traffic, and steal personal data—have managed to disable the networks by ...

A new Emotet Trojan variant has been observed in the wild with the added capabilities of using compromised connected devices as proxy command-and-control servers and of employing random URI directory ...

If you’re a state-sponsored hacker siphoning data from targeted computers, the last thing you want is for someone to locate your command-and-control server and shut it down, halting your ability to ...