The US Justice Department has dismantled four major botnets responsible for significant DDoS attacks that infected millions ...

By Maria Tsvetkova NEW YORK, March 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday said it took part in an operation ...

The Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets had infected more than 3 million devices in total, many inside home networks, according to the US Justice Department.

A major international operation has successfully taken down four large botnets. These networks infected over three million ...

The U.S. Justice Department announced a joint operation with Germany and Canada dismantling four major botnets, which infected over 3 million devices globally. These networks targeted devices to ...

Aisuru emerged in late 2024, and by mid-2025 it was launching record-breaking DDoS attacks as it rapidly infected new IoT devices. In October 2025, Aisuru was used to seed Kimwolf, an Aisuru variant ...

Hot on the heels of the LeakBase takedown, the combined might of the U.S. Department of Justice and Europol brought down ...

Aquabotv3 is actively exploiting a known vulnerability in Mitel devices to include them in its botnet, according to Akamai's Security Intelligence and Response Team. A third variant of the Mirai-based ...

Cloudflare has sent us a copy of its quarterly DDoS threat report, and it makes for hair-raising reading. The gigantic CDN provider claims that it recorded "an unprecedented bombardment" from a botnet ...

The world’s largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices hosted on U.S. Internet providers like AT&T, Comcast and ...

A newly discovered network botnet comprising an estimated 30,000 webcams and video recorders—with the largest concentration in the US—has been delivering what is likely to be the biggest ...

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks can literally overwhelm networks. Earlier this week, Cloudflare revealed that it successfully defended its network, and the customers that rely on it, from ...