Vrublevsky spent six months in prison last year for his alleged role in an attack against Assist, the company that was processing payments for Aeroflot, Russia’s largest airline. Aeroflot had opened ...

Canadian authorities on Wednesday arrested a 23-year-old Ottawa man on suspicion of building and operating Kimwolf, a fast spreading Internet-of-Things botnet that enslaved millions of devices for use ...

Opera has added a lot of cool new features to its upcoming Opera 10 browser, and one of them is almost sure to catch the eye of cyber criminals. It’s called Opera Unite, and while Opera promotes it as ...

Researchers at Cisco recently got a rare glimpse of the inner workings of the botnet underworld after going undercover and meeting an actual botmaster online: the botmaster, who ran a botnet that had ...

A Russian-speaking botmaster is offering a hosted service that allows fraudsters to steal banking credentials without hassle of complex infrastructure. The outsourced service allowed fraudsters to ...

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- A "botnet" is a network of zombie computers -- thousands surreptitiously are infected with code that allows an unauthorized user to control them via the Internet. The ...

Conspicuous spending — not technical sleuthing — unearthed what may be the largest login-stealing botnet yet known, according to one expert working on the case. One of the suspected masters of the ...

No doubt 2010 will go down as the year of the botnet takedown as yet another botnet met its demise this week: Dutch authorities announced that they have struck down the Bredolab botnet and arrested ...

LOS ANGELES, Nov 10 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - A Los Angeles man on Friday admitted infecting 250,000 computers and stealing the identities of thousands of people by ...