Two separate Mirai botnet campaigns are exploiting a critical flaw in a somewhat unlikely target. The Akamai Security Intelligence and Response Team recently observed exploitation of CVE-2025-24016, a ...

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 use of botnets to target applications for illegal and unethical purposes is growing, yet implementation of bot detection tools and best practices lags. As companies move applications to the cloud ...

Google has reportedly exposed exploit code for a critical Chrome vulnerability on its own public bug tracker this week. The flaw affects Chromium-based browsers and could let malicious websites turn ...

Threatening botnets can be created with little code experience, Akamai finds Your email has been sent Botnets, especially botnets-for-hire, are lowering the bar to technology access for those seeking ...

Botnets can thrive on Twitter, but how do they avoid detection? Twitter botnets have been an area of interest for security experts and the average user of the platform for some time now. Whether it’s ...