Qrator Labs found x47.c, a Windows botnet package that advertises an AI API drain feature. Attackers can use valid API keys to send billable AI requests and exhaust victims’ credits. The full $950 ...

The hackers behind the pernicious, persistent Storm Trojan are getting ready to slice off pieces of the botnet created by their malware so that they can “sell” the compromised computers to spammers ...

In late May 2026, U.S. and European authorities pulled off the largest coordinated strike ever against the commercial market for cyberattacks-on-demand, seizing control of four massive botnets built ...

A cybercriminal group is exploiting vulnerabilities in Internet of Things (IoT) devices and then turning a tidy profit by putting them up for sale on a residential proxy marketplace, where they can be ...

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 ...

Millions of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices running the open-source version of the Android operating system are part of the Badbox 2.0 botnet, the FBI has warned. Cyber criminals are using the botnet ...

When U.S., Canadian, and German authorities seized the command infrastructure of four major IoT botnets on March 19, 2026, they dealt what looked like a decisive blow against some of the most ...

Authorities in the Netherlands said they dismantled a botnet that comprised more than 17 million devices and were managed by 200 servers in a joint operation by the police and the National Cyber ...

Dutch law enforcement dismantled one of the largest criminal proxy networks in recorded history on May 28 and 29, 2026, seizing 200 command servers from a Netherlands hosting provider and cutting off ...

Europol and the US Department of Justice are claiming big wins against a large swath of the global cybercrime botnet infrastructure. Europol coordinated the international effort to neutralize dropper ...