Neowin News Feed for: Botnets

The Reign of Botnets: Defending Against Abuses free eBook (worth $40) ends today

Sponsored — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:00:01 +0000

A top-to-bottom discussion of website bot attacks and how to defend against them. Read more...

A Russian-controlled botnet of hundreds of routers has now been shut down by the US DOJ

John Callaham — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 19:46:01 +0000

The US Department of Justice announced this week that a criminal botnet set up by Russian hackers that used hundreds of home and small office routers has now been shut down by court order. Read more...

Hacker who commanded a 100,000+ strong bot army taken down by Ukrainian cops

Sayan Sen — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 15:04:01 +0000

A Ukraine-based hacker who created and coordinated various cyberattacks like DDoS, spamming, or brute-forcing, using his 100,000+ bots has been arrested today by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). Read more...

Cloudflare says it handled the most monstrous DDoS attack ever like a total champ

Sayan Sen — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 20:34:02 +0000

Cloudflare says it mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever with the help of its in-house DDoS protection daemon. According to its data, this massive attack brought in 17.2 million requests per second. Read more...

The United States is a hive for botnets

Tim Schiesser — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:10:47 +0000

McAfee Labs has discovered that the United States is the country with the most active botnet command servers, coming in a whopping 631 and beating other contenders by quite a margin Read more...

Microsoft to keep control of two Zeus botnets for two years

John Callaham — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 18:28:42 +0000

A federal court has granted Microsoft's request to keep control of two Zeus malware-based botnets for the next two year while the company works to clean the PCs infected with the malware. Read more...

Have we lost the battle for desktop security?

Tzvi Friedman — Sun, 09 May 2010 22:47:31 +0000

We hear the warnings everywhere these days. Don't click on links from unknown sources, don't open attachments unless you know their contents, don't friend strangers on Facebook, and so many more. It's safe to say... Read more...

Botnets Plus Spam Equals Trouble

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:34:42 +0000

Cybercrime is going upscale. Criminals are not just putting together bigger botnets--more than a million computers in some cases--they are also adopting the principles of modern marketing to get their products onto your users' computers.... Read more...

FBI: Over one million computers working for botnets

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:20:09 +0000

With help from industry partners, the US Department of Justice and the FBI have released a statement that they have identified over one million computers who have become part of a botnet. The FBI and... Read more...

Microsoft Takes On Spamming Botnets

Fri, 28 Oct 2005 18:55:22 +0000

Microsoft has filed lawsuits against 13 unnamed senders of spam e-mail who used botnets to distribute their messages. The actual charges were filed in August, but Microsoft only now unveiled details about the case. A... Read more...