Twitter has suspended or restricted nearly all 3,000 accounts linked to a “Dracula” botnet pushing pro-Chinese political propaganda. The network of fake Twitter accounts was first flagged by Graphika, ...

Experts have warned of serious security flaws in the Chinese government's censorship software, which could open the door to hackers creating huge botnets. Programming errors in the Green Dam Youth ...

Hackers allegedly working for the Chinese government are using a large botnet, mostly consisting of TP-Link routers, to conduct covert password spray attacks on Microsoft’s Azure cloud service. The ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, in collaboration with other agencies, has disrupted a botnet that consisted of more than 200,000 consumer devices worldwide. Dubbed “Flax Typhoon,” the botnet ...

The Justice Department says it has stopped Chinese hackers from weaponizing a massive army of infected devices to launch cyberattacks. NPR's Jenna McLaughlin spoke to one of the private-sector ...

Western cybersecurity agencies have issued a new advisory warning of a large-scale botnet, managed by a China-based company with links to the Chinese government. The botnet is understood to consist of ...

This ebook, based on the latest ZDNet/TechRepublic special feature, offers a detailed look at how to build risk management policies to protect your critical digital assets. Read now Chinese police ...

In a case described by a Commerce Department official as something "ripped from a screenplay," 35-year-old Chinese national YunHe Wang has been accused of operating an international botnet. This ...

An international law enforcement team has arrested a Chinese national, Yunhe Wang, for running a major botnet for nearly a decade. Wang's botnet spanned nearly 200 countries and was likely the world's ...

A Chinese-controlled botnet of tens of thousands of unpatched internet-connected firewalls, network attached storage devices, internet-connected surveillance cameras, and small office/home office ...

A Chinese malware operation is currently building a massive botnet of nearly 5 million Android smartphones using a strain of malware named RottenSys. In its current form, RottenSys is being used to ...