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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…
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
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
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
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
A scammer told us he cashed in selling millions of fake views for Instagram Reels just hours after it launched
A Reels clip posted by BI racked up 3,000 fake views within minutes.
Chris Stokel-Walker
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
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
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
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…
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…
The Economist
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…
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
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
‘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…
IoT malware attacks up by 400% this year: Report
Malware attacks against Internet of Things (IoT) and Operational Technology (OT) devices have incre…
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
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
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
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…