The threat actor behind the internet's largest WordPress botnet is using an anti-adblocker script to make sure the ads they inject on hacked sites are showing up in users' browsers and generating a ...

LAS VEGAS -- Black Hat USA -- Thrifty attackers, are you tired of investing your dollars in a botnet that's constantly being disrupted by new anti-virus signatures and bot downtime? A "cloudbot" might ...

A Russian script kiddie using little more than publicly available malware tools and exploits targeting weak credentials and configurations has assembled a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet ...

Since May 2018, a malware botnet has been launching brute-force attacks against Microsoft SQL (MSSQL) databases to take over admin accounts and then install cryptocurrency mining scripts on the ...