The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has shut down a U.S.-based Internet Service Provider for recruiting, hosting and actively participating in the distribution of spam, child pornography, and other ...

A global law enforcement operation this week took down and dismantled the notorious Qakbot botnet, touted as the largest U.S.-led financial and technical disruption of a botnet infrastructure. Qakbot ...

The Qakbot malware was found on more than 700,000 computers worldwide, including 200,000 in the U.S., according to the FBI. LOS ANGELES (CN) — The Justice Department said on Tuesday that it has taken ...

Continuing its legal assault on botnet operators and the hosting companies that the criminals use for their activities, Microsoft has announced new actions against a group of people it contends are ...

Federal law enforcement officials have disrupted the infrastructure of the notorious Qakbot malware, a malicious computer code used by cybercriminals to commit ransomware, financial fraud, and other ...

Federal law enforcement officials have disrupted a malware known as Qakbot — a computer code used by cybercriminals to commit ransomware, financial fraud and other cyber crimes leading to massive ...

Microsoft and a group of partners have taken down a Trickbot botnet, used to distribute COVID-19 spam and phishing scams and to provide malware as a service, the company recently announced. The ...

For the fifth time in three years Microsoft has stepped in to take down a botnet, this time malware called Nitol that was infecting new machines bought in China. A U.S. court has allowed the company ...

Eight ISPs took down a huge botnet last week, but the effect was temporary -- and highlights the need for a sustained international crackdown A botnet shutdown makes for a great story. Take last ...

Mushtaq and two FireEye colleagues went after Mega-D’s command infrastructure. A botnet’s first wave of attack uses e-mail attachments, Web-based offensives, and other distribution methods to infect ...

French police have managed to take down a botnet of more than 850,000 computers that were being used to mine the Monero cryptocurrency. The operation, led by a team from France’s C3N digital ...

Employees had tracked the group, believed to be based in Russia, as it hijacked nine million computers around the world to send spam emails meant to defraud unsuspecting victims. By David E. Sanger ...