Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A high-severity vulnerability plaguing old Cisco routers is being used to build a malicious, global botnet, experts have warned.

Hackers working for the Chinese government are increasingly hiding their attacks behind ready-made networks of hacked routers ...

Cybersecurity agencies from the U.S., UK, and allied nations have issued a joint advisory warning that Chinese state-linked groups are hijacking home and office devices to build covert botnet networks ...

SafeBreach researchers demonstrate how attackers can crash Windows domain controllers and build a botnet using unauthenticated RPC and LDAP vulnerabilities. At DEF CON 33, security researchers ...

A Mirai botnet has started exploiting CVE-2025-29635, a year-old command injection vulnerability in discontinued D-Link ...

Cybersecurity agencies from the US, UK, and allied nations have issued coordinated advisories warning that China-linked ...

Law enforcement authorities have dismantled a botnet that infected thousands of routers over the last 20 years to build two networks of residential proxies known as Anyproxy and 5socks. The U.S.

China's state-backed groups are now using covert networks of compromised devices to execute attacks in a low-cost, low-risk, ...

The FBI and cybersecurity researchers have disrupted a massive Chinese botnet called “Raptor Train” that infected over 260,000 networking devices to target critical infrastructure in the US and in ...

It's natural for cloud providers to offer free samples. But it turns out you can stitch together thousands of those free samples to create one big botnet, as two researchers explained Wednesday at the ...

A newly discovered botnet is compromising poorly-protected Linux servers by brute-forcing weak SSH password login authentication. Researchers at Canada-based Flare Systems, who discovered the botnet, ...

Beware a surge in the number of ZeusVM Banking Trojan-based botnets operating in the wild, since the tools for building and customizing the cybercrime malware are now available for free. See Also: AI ...