The Satori botnet has raised its head once again with an unusual target -- rigs which mine the cryptocurrency Ethereum (ETH). Satori, a botnet which exploits a Huawei vulnerability and bug in Realtek ...

Good guy vigilante, or error in coding? A strange botnet has appeared on the scene which instead of infecting devices in order to enslave them, appears to be actually ...

Security researchers analyzing a prolific botnet managed to accidentally kill it due to the coding equivalent of a typing error, according to Akamai. The cloud security firm detected the “KmsdBot” ...

Botnets are elaborate command-and-control systems used by criminals for sending spam, stealing personal information or launching denial-of-service attacks through hijacked computers. But their ...