Kimwolf is the latest reminder that the most dangerous botnets now grow quietly inside everyday consumer electronics.

Sometimes, those of us in the computer biz get so wrapped up in the techie details that we forget that many people don’t know what we think are the basics. For example, a really smart, computer-savvy ...

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 ...

How do Trojan viruses infect your computer? Where does spam come from? How do hackers gain control over your computer? Often times, the answer is via botnet. A botnet is nothing more than a small ...

Time and again, hackers infect other people’s computers as well as routers or other network devices in order to misuse them ...

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 ...

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 ...

Denis Emelyantsev, a 36-year-old Russian man accused of running a massive botnet called RSOCKS that stitched malware into millions of devices worldwide, pleaded guilty to two counts of computer crime ...

Washington — Federal investigators took down a criminal ransomware network that likely accounted for hundreds of millions of dollars in damage over the course of its existence, the Justice Department ...

FBI, Facebook join forces to fight "Butterfly Botnet" cyber attack. Dec. 12, 2012— -- The FBI says a "Butterfly Botnet" cyber attack targeted 11 million computer users around the world and was ...