News Around the Web Weekend tech: Warcraft Movie vs WoW, Doom first impressions, Save Firefox By Matthew DeCarlo, May 15, 2016, 10:45 AM
Security Hackers responsible for SpyEye botnet toolkit sentenced to nearly 25 years in prison By Shawn Knight, April 22, 2016, 10:15 AM 7 comments
Security Microsoft Microsoft, global law enforcement agencies disrupt Dorkbot botnet By Shawn Knight, December 4, 2015, 6:45 PM
Security Industry Interpol-led operation takes down the botnet that infected over 770K PCs By Justin Kahn, April 15, 2015, 5:30 PM
Security The Web Thousands of Macs have been infected with Reddit controlled botnet malware By Justin Kahn, October 3, 2014, 3:00 PM 15 comments
Security Facebook helped shut down 'Lecpetex' botnet responsible for turning PCs into Litecoin miners By Shawn Knight, July 9, 2014, 4:45 PM
The Web Security Governments disrupt financial botnet Gameover Zeus and malicious software Cryptolocker By Himanshu Arora, June 3, 2014, 8:45 AM
Security Symantec grapples with one of the largest botnets in history By Shawn Knight, October 1, 2013, 6:30 PM 13 comments
Security Microsoft Microsoft liberates 2 million PCs from malicious Citadel botnets By David Tom, June 19, 2013, 7:30 AM 13 comments
Microsoft Microsoft and FBI take down Citadel botnet responsible for stealing $500 million By Jesse Schoff, June 6, 2013, 3:30 PM
Security The Web Bitcoin-mining trojan spreading through Skype spam, Kaspersky warns By Matthew DeCarlo, April 8, 2013, 6:30 PM 14 comments
The Web Security Chameleon clickfraud botnet costs advertisers $6 million a month By Matthew DeCarlo, March 20, 2013, 1:00 PM
Security The Web Microsoft and Symantec kill Bamital search hijacking botnet By Matthew DeCarlo, February 7, 2013, 4:30 PM
Security Android botnet turns infected handsets into SMS spam generators By Shawn Knight, December 20, 2012, 7:30 AM 7 comments
Microsoft Security Microsoft disrupts botnet malware that was preinstalled on new PCs By Matthew DeCarlo, September 13, 2012, 2:00 PM
Industry The Web World's third largest spam botnet 'Grum' taken down By Jose Vilches, July 19, 2012, 12:00 PM 8 comments
Industry Microsoft engineer exposes international Android spam botnet By Lee Kaelin, July 5, 2012, 7:30 AM 9 comments
The Web Security Sophos: 20% of Macs harbor Windows malware By Matthew DeCarlo, April 24, 2012, 6:00 PM 22 comments
Apple Industry F-Secure provides free Flashback removal tool for Mac users By Lee Kaelin, April 12, 2012, 9:30 AM
Apple Security More than 600,000 Macs infected with Flashback Trojan downloader By Lee Kaelin, April 5, 2012, 9:00 AM 41 comments
Security Microsoft Microsoft seizes Zeus botnet servers in Illinois, Pennsylvania By Matthew DeCarlo, March 26, 2012, 5:00 PM 10 comments
The Web Security FBI busts botnet that made $14M in fraudulent ad revenue By Jose Vilches, November 10, 2011, 5:00 PM
The Web Security Microsoft disables 41,000-strong Kelihos botnet By Matthew DeCarlo, September 27, 2011, 7:08 PM 11 comments
Security The Web Kaspersky: Massive botnet is 'practically indestructible' By Matthew DeCarlo, June 30, 2011, 6:30 PM 38 comments