How big Kimwolf really is Researchers tracking Kimwolf estimate that the botnet has already compromised around 1.8 million Android devices, a scale that instantly places it among the largest active ...

An international law enforcement operation shut down a service called SocksEscort, which allegedly helped cybercriminals all over the world launch ransomware and DDoS attacks, as well as distribute ...

Akamai’s 2026 State of the Internet report shows a surge in Layer 7 DDoS and API attacks, with attacakers combining AI, ...

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 ...

Criminals hijack thousands of devices to create never-before-seen cyber weapon - Victims of the KadNap botnet are spread throughout the world ...

Aisuru, the botnet responsible for a series of record-smashing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks this year, recently was overhauled to support a more low-key, lucrative and sustainable ...

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 ...

Some of the most powerful DDoS attacks ever detected have been revealed by cybersecurity company StormWall. This specific botnet, which enabled DDoS attacks of up to 2TB/s, sets a new record over the ...

From the dark side comes an ominous new botnet called Darkness that researchers say is quite impressive and is targeting a wide variety of websites. In the last month, Darkness has become a very ...

CloudFlare spotted a new botnet in the wild which launched massive DDoS attacks aimed at the US West Coast for 10 days in a row. A new monster botnet, which hasn’t been given a name yet, has been ...

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 ...