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.

A new botnet has entered the threat landscape that researchers say "puts to shame" others on the scene, such as Mirai and Qbot. On Wednesday, researchers from cybersecurity firm Bitdefender said the ...

Researchers say the botnet has emerged over the past three months and shares aspects with Mirai and Qbot. A new botnet has compromised hundreds of ASUS, D-Link and Dasan Zhone routers over the past ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 22-year-old from Vancouver, Washington was sentenced today to 13 months in prison for creating and operating multiple DDoS botnets made up of home routers and other networking and Internet of Things ...

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 ...

New version of trojan is spreading fast and already has claimed 100,000 victims globally, Check Point has discovered. Attacks attributed to the Qbot trojan, known as the “Swiss Army knife” of malware, ...

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 ...

A multinational task force headed by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and Dutch Police has taken down Qakbot, a prolific malware and botnet operation that was named in May the most successful ...