Mirai recruits thousands of smart devices, such as cameras, to launch attacks Malware that launched the net's largest ever cyber-attack last year had links to Minecraft servers, according to those ...

The persistence and spread of a newly identified botnet targeting private Minecraft Java servers has far wider ramifications for enterprises than bumming out a Biome. Microsoft researchers revealed in ...

Earlier this week, Microsoft Defender for IoT researchers discovered malicious downloads that affect Windows and Linux devices. These downloads, among other propagation methods, ensnare local devices ...

We now know the motive behind the devastating botnet that broke the internet in 2016, and it’s a far cry from any nation-state plot experts feared at the time. The three hackers who created the botnet ...

The world’s largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices hosted on U.S. Internet providers like AT&T, Comcast and ...

A security expert has linked the popular computer game Minecraft to the most powerful cyberattacks on the internet that took place through the so-called Mirai botnet in 2016. Security researcher Brian ...