As the market grows for 'smart' internet-enabled household devices, hackers have started turning them into botnets. Botnets are networks of remotely controlled devices, which can be used for malicious ...

Law enforcement worldwide teamed up recently to fight cybercrime. "Operation Endgame" led to four arrests and the dismantling of 100 malicious servers globally. Cybersecurity experts called the sting ...

REDMOND, Washington (Reuters) - The maker of the most popular computer operating system in the world is launching a new strategy against criminal hackers by bringing together security engineers, ...

A strike coordinated with police and financial institutions disabled more than a thousand ‘botnets’ used by a global cybercrime operation to steal people’s banking information and identities, ...

Microsoft sent employees, escorted by the U.S. Marshals, to seize computer servers from two data hosting facilities in New Jersey and Pennsylvania along with other data and evidence from the botnets. ...

The maker of the most popular computer operating system in the world is launching a new strategy against criminal hackers by bringing together security engineers, digital forensics experts and lawyers ...

MOSCOW — From the early days of online stock scams to the increasingly sophisticated world of botnets, pseudonymous hacker Peter Severa spent nearly two decades at the forefront of Russian cybercrime.