You’d think a nefarious slice of software designed to frustrate a practice plenty of us dislike — web ads — might engender cheers and well wishes. But no, the ZeroAccess botnet is hardly so noble: a ...

The cybercriminals behind ZeroAccess, one of the largest botnets in existence, have lost access to more than a quarter of the infected machines they controlled because of an operation executed by ...

Security experts contend that a growing number of operators of compromised computer networks (or “botnets”) are finding new ways to grow their networks and make them immune to potential shutdowns, ...