Reaper IoT botnet ain't so scary, contains fewer than 20,000 drones But numbers aren't everything, are they, Dyn? Security27 Oct 2017 | 5
New phishing campaign uses 30-year-old Microsoft mess as bait Necurs botnet spreads ransomware carried in Office documents Security23 Oct 2017 | 73
Do fear the Reaper: Huge army of webcams, routers raised from 'one million' hacked orgs Check your cameras, broadband gateways, NAS boxes for latest botnet malware Edge + IoT20 Oct 2017 | 48
IoT botnet Linux.ProxyM turns its grubby claws to spam rather than DDoS I don't know which is worse Security22 Sep 2017 | 14
Top tip, hacker newbs: Don't use the same Skype ID for IoT bot herding and job ads Updated Opsec, not just for Christmas Security07 Sep 2017 | 17
Tech firms take down WireX Android botnet The Play Store is looking buggier than ever Security28 Aug 2017 | 12
Russian admits being Ebury botnet herder, now jailed for 46 months Malware used to take down Linux Foundation and make millions Security03 Aug 2017 | 9
Don't all rush out at once, but there are a million devices ripe to be the next big botnet As bad as Mirai was, it could have been much worse Security15 Jun 2017 | 14
'Jaff' argh snakes: 5m emails/hour ransomware floods inboxes Locky-style nasty will squeeze you for two whole bitcoins Security12 May 2017 | 15
Another IoT botnet has been found feasting on vulnerable IP cameras Children, please welcome Persirai to the class Security10 May 2017 | 19
Mysterious Hajime botnet has pwned 300,000 IoT devices The Dark Knight of malware's purpose remains unknown Security27 Apr 2017 | 17
Beware of geeks bearing gifts: Evil game guides infect 2 million Androids Google Play scanners asleep at the switch while morons tap away their security Security26 Apr 2017 | 8
Interpol unplugs nearly 9,000 Asian command and control networks WordPress plug-in bug exploited in eight countries Security26 Apr 2017 | 9
Russian hacker arrested in Spain for bot-herding not election-fiddling Peter Levashov indicted over Kelihos as Russian carder Roman Seleznev cops 27 years Security24 Apr 2017 | 11
'Amnesia' IoT botnet feasts on year-old unpatched vulnerability New variant of 'Tsunami' is a disaster waiting to happen Security07 Apr 2017 | 13
Strange Mirai botnet brew blamed for powerful application layer attack Varmints cooked up variant after malware code went public Security29 Mar 2017 | 3
FBI secures guilty plea from Russian bot-herder Ebury infections for fun and profit, sentencing in August Legal29 Mar 2017 | 4
GiftGhostBot scares up victims' gift-card cash with brute-force attacks Software nasty can burn through 1.7 million account numbers per hour Security24 Mar 2017 | 6
Web smut seekers take resurgent Ramnit malware from behind ♪ Botnet knocked down, but it gets up again ♪ Security22 Mar 2017 | 9
World's worst botnet fiends switch from ransomware to stock scam spam IT LIVES! Security21 Mar 2017 | 13
University DDoS'd by its own seafood-curious malware-infected vending machines 2017's security headlines are starting to read like MadLibs Edge + IoT13 Feb 2017 | 49
Hacker: I made 160,000 printers spew out ASCII art around the world Check your firewalls, people – no need to leave all this gear facing the internet Security06 Feb 2017 | 46
Google mistakes the entire NHS for massive cyber-attacking botnet Exclusive Hospitals advised to use Bing instead Security01 Feb 2017 | 102
Mirai variant turns TalkTalk routers into zombie botnet agents Infosec folk spot web of compromised British devices Security08 Dec 2016 | 35
Sigh... 'Hundreds of thousands' of... sigh, web CCTV cams still at risk of... sigh, hijacking Vid It's been two years and no patches, say researchers Security07 Dec 2016 | 23
CloudFlare warns of another massive botnet, er, flaring up DDoS attacks on the horizon as White House cybersecurity report issues recommendations Security05 Dec 2016 | 12
Sh... IoT just got real: Mirai botnet attacks targeting multiple ISPs Analysis Now ZyXEL and D-Link routers from Post Office and TalkTalk under siege Security02 Dec 2016 | 25
Online criminals iced as cops bury malware-spewing Avalanche Four-year op by US and EU culminates in arrests, server seizures Security01 Dec 2016 | 15
Origin of the beasties: Mirai botnet missing link revealed as DVR player CCTV cameras? You've been looking in the wrong place Security14 Nov 2016 | 7
Finns chilling as DDoS knocks out building control system Hint: next time, buy a firewall before you're attacked Security09 Nov 2016 | 17
SpamTorte botnet gets turbo-charged Revamped version speeds junk mail attacks Security08 Nov 2016 | 7
Mirai IoT botnet blamed for 'smashing Liberia off the internet' Entire country gets to enjoy life without the web thanks to huge DDoS attack, it is claimed Security04 Nov 2016 | 9
Post-Mirai, HackForums kills off white hat DDoS rental service Even hackers are worried about the Internet of S**t backlash Security01 Nov 2016 | 5
A successor to Mirai? Newly discovered malware aims to create fresh IoT botnet Dubbed Linux/IRCTelnet, nasty's source code based on Aidra Edge + IoT31 Oct 2016 | 11
Boffin's anti-worm bot could silence epic Mirai DDoS attack army And break every computer crime law along the way Security31 Oct 2016 | 35
Researchers expose Mirai vuln that could be used to hack back against botnet Exploit can halt attacks from IoT devices Security28 Oct 2016 | 18
Divide the internet into compartments to save us from the IoT fail whale Intel's chief IoT security bloke puts forward one possible solution Edge + IoT27 Oct 2016 | 34
Internet of S**t things claims another scalp: DNS DDoS smashes StarHub 'Don't buy rubbish Webcams', carrier tells customers Security27 Oct 2016 | 23
It's finally happened: Hackers are coming for home routers en masse SoHopeless Security19 Oct 2016 | 56
Decade-old SSH vuln exploited by IoT botnet armies to hose servers Internet of Unpatchable Things Edge + IoT13 Oct 2016 | 13
Internet of Things botnets: You ain’t seen nothing yet SSSh*t just got real Edge + IoT10 Oct 2016 | 57
SANS issues call to arms to battle IoT botnets Do try this at home – but carefully Security04 Oct 2016 | 6
Source code unleashed for junk-blasting Internet of Things botnet Hackforums leak Security03 Oct 2016 | 65
No wonder we're being hit by Internet of Things botnets. Ever tried patching a Thing? Akamai CSO laments pisspoor security design practices Security27 Sep 2016 | 41
Security man Krebs' website DDoS was powered by hacked Internet of Things botnet Internet of Amazingly Insecure Tat? That's the one Edge + IoT26 Sep 2016 | 33
25,000 malware-riddled CCTV cameras form network-crashing botnet Watching us and borking you Edge + IoT28 Jun 2016 | 33
Password reuse bot steals creds from weak sites, logs in to banks If your Netflix password is your banking password, you'll get what you deserve Security24 May 2016 | 19
A million machines enslaved by MitM Google ad fraud botnet Better the devil you know as malware replaces Alphabet ads with less sanitary banners Security17 May 2016 | 3
Jaku botnet runs targeted attack behind sandstorm of routine malfeasance ATP via ‘aggregated threat’ Security05 May 2016 |
Mumblehard spam-spewing botnet floored Single point of failure key in takedown Security07 Apr 2016 | 2
OPSEC mistakes spill Russian DDoS scum's payment secrets $66 a pop, if you're the sort who pays for these things Security03 Mar 2016 | 4
The Mad Men's monster is losing the botnet fight: Fewer humans are seeing web ads Ad fraud rises again – and the UK is the particularly mucky Legal05 Feb 2016 | 130
Mystery hacker hijacks Dridex Trojan botnet... to serve antivirus installer Ah, great. Ave AV Security04 Feb 2016 | 14
Microsoft: We’ve taken down the botnets. Europol: Would Sir like a kill switch, too? It's like pulling a smoking car off the road ... hang on Security19 Jan 2016 | 102
Security sweep firm links botnet infestation and file sharing Updated Public sector apparently suffers most from idle P2Pers Security21 Dec 2015 | 9
Ponmocup is the '15 million' machine botnet you've never heard of Botconf Skilled VXers have built 25 plugins, made 4000 variants, say crack security team Security03 Dec 2015 | 10
Conficker, back from the undead, dominates malware threat landscape Look out, ransomware is coming up on the rails Security01 Dec 2015 | 2
Shopping mall CCTV gear commandeered to blast websites offline Robot zombies found lurking around stores Security22 Oct 2015 | 18
Infosec workers swipe Q-tip across 'net: Ew, there's Dridex on it Zombie botnet found in sample despite server takedown Security20 Oct 2015 | 4
FBI takes down Dridex botnet, seizes servers, arrests suspect C&C malware factory Security14 Oct 2015 | 7