Botnets

Residential routers face risks from the propagation of IoT botnets and the problem devices present once they are infected.

In the latest episode of Radware Threat Researchers Live, Daniel Smith and Pascal Geenens discuss what's new in botnets.

Registration fraud is difficult to detect and directly affects revenues. But you can avoid the damage when treating this threat as a business matter.

The Hoaxcalls campaign has provided a number of opportunities to explore the trials & errors in researching, developing, & building a botnet campaign.

In the second edition of ‘Researchers Talk Live,’ Daniel Smith and Pascal Geenens geek out on what's current in DDoS and IoT Botnets.

Even though Hoaxcalls reuses code from botnets such as Tsunami, Gafgyt and Mirai, the tactics and methods leveraged by the operators warrants a review.

The online gaming industry experiences peak engagement & sales during the holiday season. Along with peak traffic comes a lot of unwelcome bot traffic.

AuthBots, a new form of malicious software, are targeting the login pages of online retailer sites.

If the growth of the attack landscape continues at this rate, we as security practitioners need to begin asking serious questions.

While working on Radware’s Ultimate Guide to Bot Management, I began wondering what would it take to build a botnet.

Traditionally, DDoS is an avenue of profit for botherders. But today's botnets have evolved to include several attack vectors other than DDoS that are more profitable. And just as any business-oriented person would do, attackers follow the money.

Botnets comprised of vulnerable IoT devices, combined with widely available DDoS-as-a-Service tools and anonymous payment mechanisms, have pushed denial-of-service attacks to record-breaking volumes.