A Russian national was ordered to pay a judgment of over $1.6 million over a ransomware and computer botnet scheme, the U.S.

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 ...

Authorities from the United States, Germany, and Canada have taken down Command and Control (C2) infrastructure used by the ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today said they arrested the alleged operator of 911 S5, a ten-year-old online anonymity service that was powered by what the director of the FBI called “likely ...

A major international operation has successfully taken down four large botnets. These networks infected over three million ...

In total, the operation went after four botnets, estimated to have infected millions of devices across the globe, including ...

A Russian national has been sentenced to two years in prison after admitting that the phishing botnet he managed was used to ...

(WSPA) – What’s worse than getting hacked? How about having no clue that you’re a breach victim. One of the hardest types of hacks to detect are botnets, a network of devices infected with malware.

By Maria Tsvetkova NEW YORK, March 20 (Reuters) - Law enforcement agencies in the United States, Germany and Canada have ...

A Chinese national was charged Wednesday with leading the “world’s largest botnet,” responsible for “billions” in cybercrime, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday. The DOJ said YunHe ...

A long time ago, one of the reasons to get a Macintosh computer was that there were few nasty viruses or other malicious junk floating around that could affect your machine. However, this kind of ...

SecureWorks survey estimates the top 11 botnets are capable of flooding the Internet with more than 100 billion spam messages every day Storm is a shadow of its former self, Kraken is just another ...