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.

Google has filed a lawsuit against 25 unnamed individuals in China it accuses of breaking into more than 10 million devices worldwide and using them to build a botnet, called BadBox 2.0, and then to ...

PowMix targets Czech workforce since Dec 2025 using jittered C2 and ZIP phishing, enabling stealthy remote access and ...

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 ...

Unpatched industrial IoT devices are exposing smart factory floors to commercial botnet extortion and severe operational ...

Masjesu botnet drives global DDoS attacks since 2023, with nearly 50% traffic from Vietnam, threatening enterprises and IoT ...

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.

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