Most botnets are usually pretty obvious to detect -- the conspicuous Internet Relay Chat (IRC) connections they use are often a dead giveaway. But botnet operators are now starting to use stealthier ...

A newly discovered botnet is compromising poorly-protected Linux servers by brute-forcing weak SSH password login authentication. Researchers at Canada-based Flare Systems, who discovered the botnet, ...

As a follow-up to last week’s article on detecting the presence of a botnet on your network, I have more advice from experts in this arena. IBM’s Internet Security Systems X-Force gives specific ...

Security experts say botnets are increasingly becoming more difficult to trace as criminal hackers have developed clever means to hide them. Botnets are networks of computers infected with code that ...

Cyberattacks launched or controlled via botnet are nothing new, but they are on the rise and pose an ever-growing threat. A recent Russian botnet masquerading as a proxy service compromised millions ...

Malware writers are increasingly considering the Tor anonymity network as an option for hiding the real location of their command-and-control (C&C) servers, according to researchers from security firm ...

A Romanian botnet group named 'RUBYCARP' is leveraging known vulnerabilities and performing brute force attacks to breach corporate networks and compromise servers for financial gain. According to a ...