Cheap Internet and accessible cloud technologies have a downside, which is botnets. Previously, cybercriminals created them based on local servers. However, with the development of cloud technologies ...

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As the world has moved to scalable online services for everything from video streaming to gaming to messaging, it’s really no surprise that malware has followed close behind. Specifically, threats ...

Long-running SocksEscort proxy network brought down by US-EU operation ...

Separate spinoffs of the infamous Mirai botnet are responsible for a fresh wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks globally. One is exploiting specific vulnerabilities in Internet of ...

A new version of the Fodcha DDoS botnet has emerged, featuring ransom demands injected into packets and new features to evade detection of its infrastructure. 360Netlab researchers discovered Fodcha ...

Last year, there were 47.1 million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks worldwide, the most on record. The number of attacks more than tripled in two years. According to Cloudflare's "Q4 2025 ...

A number of botnets are pummeling a nearly year-old command-injection vulnerability in TP-Link routers to compromise the devices for IoT-driven distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. There ...

The world’s largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices hosted on U.S. Internet providers like AT&T, Comcast and ...

Cloudflare announced that it had detected and stopped the 29.7-terabit-per-second (Tbps) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which was the biggest one ever. According to the web ...