A botnet used for illicit cryptocurrency mining activities is abusing Bitcoin (BTC) transactions to stay under the radar. According to new research published by Akamai on Tuesday, the technique is ...

A newly documented Linux botnet named SSHStalker is using the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) communication protocol for command-and-control (C2) operations.

Using an on-again, off-again strategy of C2 communication helps it hide from researchers. Necurs, the prolific and globally dispersed spam and malware distribution botnet, has been spotted using a ...

The use of botnets to target applications for illegal and unethical purposes is growing, yet implementation of bot detection tools and best practices lags. As companies move applications to the cloud ...

Last week, Google announced that it had partially disrupted the operations of a massive botnet—a gargantuan network of over one million malware-infected Windows computers. In the world of ...