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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

The bad guys freely abuse the Domain Name Service, and now the good guys are increasingly using it to protect themselves: OpenDNS today began offering a new feature in its enterprise DNS service that ...

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 ...

Apple has announced via its support site that it is both working with Internet service providers worldwide to take down the botnet distributing the Flashback malware exploit and that it will release a ...

A massive cyptocurrency mining botnet has taken over half a million machines, and may have made its cybercriminal controllers millions of dollars. The whole operation is powered by EternalBlue, the ...

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 ...