Botnet
Sextortion is rampant as botnet sends emails demanding bitcoins as ransom
The decade-old botnet, called Phorpiex or Trik, carries out the campaign by sending persuasive emails to victims.
Mirai botnet hacker ordered to pay USD 8.6 million in damages
Paras Jha was one of three people responsible for the Mirai Botnet, a network of more than 100,000 infected internet-connected devices.
Russian pleads guilty in US to operating Kelihos botnet
Levashov was arrested in Spain in April 2017 and the Justice Department announced in February that he had been extradited to the US.
New botnet infects 20,000 devices, uses P2P communication
Dubbed Hide N' Seek, it can also carry out data exfiltration, code execution and interference with a device's operation.
Mirai botnet came into existence to gain 'advantage in Minecraft'
A US court ruled out Minecraft as the major reason for the Mirai botnet’s existence.
Magala Trojan cashes-in at the expense of small businesses
Criminals infect their victims’ computers with the Magala Trojan Clicker, generating fake ad views, making up to $350 from each machine.
2017 witnessed 5,000-fold decrease in largest spam botnet mailings
Kaspersky Lab's spam traps detected over 35 million fraudulent mail shots but in March 2017 that number fell to almost 7,000
300,000 obeying devices: Hajime is conquering the Internet of Things world
The botnet has recently been propagating extensively, infecting multiple devices worldwide
Vending machine botnet took university hostage
The campus internet connection was taken hostage — thanks to an IoT-based malware that hit the most irrelevant connected system, a vending machine.