The Qbot botnet is now spewing U.S. election-themed phishing emails used to infect victims with malicious payloads designed to harvest user data and emails for use in future campaigns. The malspam ...

A 22-year-old Washington man was sentenced to 13 months in prison for renting and developing Mirai and Qbot-based DDoS botnets used in DDoS attacks against targets from all over the world.

The recent operation against the Qakbot (“Qbot”) botnet by the US’ FBI, Justice Department and their international partners is nothing short of commendable. By taking down this long-running botnet, we ...

QBot Trojan operators are using new tactics to hijack legitimate, emailed conversations in order to steal credentials and financial data. On Thursday, cybersecurity researchers from Check Point ...

Qbot operators are now relying on infecting systems by installing malware payloads on emails. These files reportedly have malware-ridden Windows Installers. According to cybersecurity researchers, the ...

What just happened? In close cooperation with Eurojust, the FBI has dismantled the infrastructure of a widely recognized botnet operation. Qbot, which facilitated ransomware deployments and caused ...

The “Qakbot” botnet, a network of infected computers used by hackers to attack governments and businesses around the world, has been dismantled and destroyed. So claims United States Federal Bureau of ...

Researchers at Akamai’s Security Intelligence unit find a botnet specimen that reveals how successful DDoS, spam and other cyberattacks can be done with little finesse, knowledge or savvy. Botnets, ...

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The average life span of a command and control server in an Internet Relay Chat (IRC)-based botnet is less than two months. And these machines and their drones that make up a botnet are typically ...

When federal agents announced on November 29 that they’d indicted or convicted eight individuals accused of using botnets (networks of computers infected with Trojan horse applications) to engage in ...