As artificial intelligence makes its way into everything from search engines to smart fridges, cybercriminals are capitalizing on the same tech to supercharge their attacks. Botnets, once seen as ...

The record-breaking DDoS against Cloudflare reached 22.2Tbps, about double the intensity of an earlier attack this month. The ...

Hackers working on behalf of the Chinese government are using a botnet of thousands of routers, cameras, and other Internet-connected devices to perform highly evasive password spray attacks against ...

A new report out today from Fortinet Inc.’s FortiGuard Labs details the activities of two different botnets observed through October and November that are being spread through vulnerabilities in ...

The first half of 2025 marked another MAJOR escalation in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) activity, with new NetScout research documenting more than eight million attacks worldwide in these six ...

Botnets often make the cybersecurity headlines – but they’re far from the Skynet nightmare that you’d assume at first glance.

Cyber criminals are exploiting IoT devices in homes to create a botnet called BADBOX 2.0, enabling illegal online activities. Most compromised devices are manufactured in China and become infected ...

A newly discovered network botnet comprising an estimated 30,000 webcams and video recorders—with the largest concentration in the US—has been delivering what is likely to be the biggest ...

KrebsOnSecurity last week was hit by a near record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that clocked in at more than 6.3 terabits of data per second (a terabit is one trillion bits of data).

A newly discovered network botnet comprising an estimated 30,000 webcams and video recorders—with the largest concentration in the US—has been delivering what is likely to be the biggest ...