Tens of thousands of home routers have been infected with malware, and are being used by hackers to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, including by the hacktivist group Anonymous.

New evidence suggests that Anonymous has begun using malware-infected home routers to launch DDoS attacks against various targets, particularly in the last few months. That's the conclusion of a new ...

The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack marathon waged earlier this week by a hacktivist group using volunteers' computer resources to overwhelm high-profile targets could be gaining more ...

Anonymous Sudan, a group of hacktivists that started its operations in early 2023, owns the recent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that shut down Cloudflare's website. As a matter of fact, ...

A new botnet has entered the threat landscape that researchers say "puts to shame" others on the scene, such as Mirai and Qbot. On Wednesday, researchers from cybersecurity firm Bitdefender said the ...

Two criminal groups are collaborating to promote malware, according to botnet researcher Jose Nazario. The anonymous group behind the Avalanche botnet is pushing Zeus, malicious code from another ...

A botnet is a group of Internet-connected personal computers that have been infected by a malicious application, which allows a hacker to control the infected computers without alerting the computer ...

In about a month the first graduates of the new Anonymous hacking school could start having an impact on the frequency of cybercrime. In about a month the first graduates of the new Anonymous hacking ...

Tens of thousands of home routers have been infected with malware and are being used by hackers to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The router-based botnet was discovered by Web ...