Spam e-mail volumes dropped to a new low over the holiday season, sinking to their lowest levels since the November 2008 shuttering of rogue ISP McColo, Symantec security researchers found. According ...

The ever-shifting, ever-more-powerful malware is now hijacking email threads to download malicious DLLs that inject password-stealing code into webpages, among other foul things. The Qakbot botnet is ...

Emotet was responsible for distributing ransomware, banking trojans and other threats through phishing and malware-laden spam. In January, law enforcement in the Netherlands took control of Emotet's ...

Emotet, one of today's largest and most dangerous malware botnets, has returned to life after a period of inactivity that lasted nearly four months, since the end of May this year. During that time, ...

The once-mighty Waledac botnet, which lay dormant for most of 2010, has suddenly made a strong resurgence into the spam-spewing scene -- and it’s likely that your inbox will soon feel its presence. In ...

Researchers wonder if a recent “amateur spam” campaign by the once-prevalant malware distribution botnet is a sign of trojans looking to other infection paths. A mid-January spam campaign by criminals ...

Widely regarded as one of the Internet’s top threats, the Emotet botnet has returned after a months-long hiatus—and it has some new tricks. Last week, Emotet appeared for the first time this year ...

Botnets are networks of computers taken hostage by malware that controls them and makes them send spam and act in other nefarious ways. They’re growing in size, number and impact. A botnet may be ...