Botnet fighters have another tool in their arsenal, thanks to Microsoft. The software vendor is giving law enforcers access to a special tool that keeps tabs on botnets, using data compiled from the ...

Symantec's new Norton AntiBot utility is now out of beta, promising to remove zombies from for-profit botnets scourge in exchange for $29.99 a year. The anti-botnet tool (see previous coverage here) ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. To build botnets, hackers infect internet-connected devices with malware that allows them to execute orders from a remote server.

On Friday, the US Department of Justice announced the extradition from Thailand of Hazma Bendelladj, a 24-year old Algerian man accused of being "BX1," the author and marketer of the SpyEye botnet ...

A statistical tool first used in 1966 and currently used in speech and gesture recognition may hold a key to sniffing out botnets - by predicting the likely “next move” of infected PCs and the healthy ...

XMRogue would let defenders submit invalid mining job results from infected computers to get a proxy server banned from the botnet. For years, CSOs have been fighting botnets that are stealing ...

The botnet uses port scanning code from Mirai, a first for Android-related attacks, according to researchers. A new botnet that distributes malware for mining Monero cryptocurrency has emerged, ...

Turns out Twitter's expansion of Direct Message capacity beyond 140 characters inadvertently gives botnet operators a stealthy and streamlined way to control their bots. A new backdoor tool built by ...