A new wave of pharmacy, penny stock, and e-card spam emails are being sent by an Android botnet, according to security researchers from Microsoft and antivirus firm Sophos. Terry Zink, program manager ...

Google has denied claims that handsets running its Android mobile operating system have been infected with a virus that causes them to generate spam messages. On Tuesday (July 3), Microsoft researcher ...

In a new twist, spammers have built a botnet that sends SMS spam through infected Android phones, shifting the potentially pricey cost of sending spam to victims. The trend, spotted by security vendor ...

An Android Trojan program that’s behind one of the longest running multipurpose mobile botnets has been updated to become stealthier and more resilient. The botnet is mainly used for instant message ...

Security vendor Cloudmark says this is the first time it has detected a botnet that abuses other people's phones to send spam In a new twist, spammers have built a botnet that sends SMS spam through ...

Federal authorities in the United States, working with law enforcement in Canada and Germany, said they disrupted four major ...

German authorities have shut down two of the world’s largest "botnets" as part of a joint three-nation operation. Each of the ...

DoJ disrupts IoT botnets behind 31.4 Tbps DDoS attacks using 3M devices, reducing global extortion-driven outages.

In total, the operation went after four botnets, estimated to have infected millions of devices across the globe, including ...

Google is suing the creators of BadBox 2.0, a botnet that infected 10 million off-brand Android devices. The malware often came pre-installed on cheap streaming boxes, tablets, and projectors, mostly ...

A previously unknown cybercrime syndicate named 'Bigpanzi' has been making significant money by infecting Android TV and eCos set-top boxes worldwide since at least 2015. Beijing-based Qianxin Xlabs ...