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United States has reportedly dismantled a Russian botnet that hacked millions of devices

The US Department of Justice, together with law enforcement partners in Germany, the Netherlands…

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Microsoft said it thwarted a sprawling network of bots that could have been used to target election infrastructure

Microsoft said it disrupted servers that were used to run Trickbot, a notorious botnet that has bee…

Aaron Holmes   


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A wildly popular Google Chrome extension was being used as a giant botnet

With no indication on the homepage, it's doubtful that many users realise that Hola is selling thei…

Rob Price   


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This Is What It Looks Like When A Click-Fraud Botnet Secretly Controls Your Web Browser

Spider.io obtained a copy of "Zeus," a notorious piece of "root-kit" software that nestles inside t…

Jim Edwards   


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Twitter Appears To Be Fighting A Massive Botnet, Possibly Involving Millions Of Accounts

Nor is it clear why hackers would want to control a network of bogus accounts that simply retweets …

Jim Edwards   


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A massive hacking network that Microsoft and the US military tried to stop last month is already back — and it could be a bad sign for Election Day

Trickbot's quick resurgence raises concerns about Election Day. Experts warn that it could be used …

Aaron Holmes   


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Evidence is mounting that Russia took 4 clear paths to meddle in the US election

Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman, worked to advance Russian interests for over a dec…

Sonam Sheth,Natasha Bertrand   


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Three US hackers took out key parts of the internet in 2016 because they wanted to make money on Minecraft

Eventually, Mirai's creators decided to publish its source code online, to try and throw any invest…

Shona Ghosh   


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Organized Crime Hackers Are The True Threat To American Infrastructure

At its peak, the utility's back-end computers that run its customer database were flooded with 5.7m…

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Organized Crime Hackers Are The True Threat To American Infrastructure

At its peak, the utility’s back-end computers that run its customer database were flooded with 5.7m…

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A hacker claims to have stolen credentials to a bunch of US government sites - and he's selling them on the dark web

"If you had root access, you should be able to ... do whatever you wanted," a hacker told Tech Insi…

Paul Szoldra,Paul Szoldra,Pau…   


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An Insider Told Us Why Google Takes Millions From Web Sites Who Break Its Rules

The back story: Google faces several lawsuits over this issue. Super-successful web sites can rack …

Jim Edwards   


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Police around the world teamed up in their biggest effort yet to takedown hackers, but cybercrime is hard to stem

"Operation Endgame" led to the dismantling of more than 100 malicious computer servers worldwide, b…

Natalie Musumeci   


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‘Too smart to steal’: AI, made to help, faces backlash for data scraping

Launch of AI chatbots has sparked debates about data usage by AI companies to train their models. C…

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IoT malware attacks up by 400% this year: Report

Malware attacks against Internet of Things (IoT) and Operational Technology (OT) devices have incre…

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10 things in tech you need to know today

A huge hacking network is back from the dead, Facebook and Twitter had to fact-check Trump again, a…

Isobel Asher Hamilton   


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Roughly half of the Twitter accounts pushing to 'reopen America' are bots, researchers found

It's not yet clear who's behind the surge in bot activity, or whether they're originating from the …

Aaron Holmes   


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What a cyberwar with North Korea could look like, according to a cybersecurity expert

One thing that you can look at is the Mirai botnet. That's basically a botnet of computers that are…

Chris Snyder   


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Hackers found an ingenious way to embarrass Microsoft

There's another wrinkle to all of this. FireEye's technology helps detect what's known as "advanced…