Consisting of over 1.8 million infected devices, the Kimwolf Android Botnet focuses on traffic proxying, but can also launch ...

In March 2017, the Android security team was feeling pleased with itself. The group had detected, analyzed, and neutralized a sophisticated botnet built on tainted apps that all worked together to ...

On October 30th, Cloudfare data identified a strange website that briefly surpassed Google as the most popular website ...

Kimwolf is the latest reminder that the most dangerous botnets now grow quietly inside everyday consumer electronics.

A new botnet has been discovered in the wild that targets Android devices to facilitate distributed denial-of-service attacks. Discovered and detailed Tuesday by researchers at Qihoo 360 Netlab, the ...

Twitter users aren’t the only ones checking the microblogging service for important updates. Android malware is starting to do so, too. One maker of Android malware is using Twitter to communicate ...

Speaking this week at the Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit in Singapore, Android security engineer Maddie Stone shed new light on the years-long battle between Google’s mobile operating system and a ...

Chandraveer, a seasoned mechanical design engineer turned tech reporter and reviewer, brings more than three years of rich experience in consumer tech journalism to the table, having contributed to ...

Bad OpSec led to the botnet’s discovery — revealing 800,000 victims in Russia. LONDON — A powerful Android botnet dubbed Geost has been spotted targeting Russian citizens, with the end goal of ...

A new "swiss army knife" botnet originating from Russia has emerged in the Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) arena, touting Android-based payloads to potential cybercriminal clients. According to ...

Netlab, the networking security division of Chinese security firm Qihoo 360, said it discovered this week a new fledgling malware operation that is currently infecting Android devices for the purpose ...

An Android Trojan program that’s behind one of the longest running multipurpose mobile botnets has been updated to become stealthier and more resilient. The botnet is mainly used for instant message ...