Twelve million new zombie computers have been hijacked by cyber-criminals since January, according to a report by anti-virus software company McAfee. The security vendor said there has been a 50 per ...

The Australian government on Monday recruited five Internet service providers to hunt down virus-infected computers used to send spam or launch denial-of-service attacks from within the country. These ...

“Zombie PCs” are ordinary home computers that have become infected with viruses or worms in order for criminals to use thousands of them at once to attack websites. These attacks involve the home ...

Three suspects in a Dutch crime ring hacked 1.5 million computers worldwide, infecting them with a worm to create a "zombie" network of infected computers that stole passwords and credit card data, ...

Microsoft's action, which was done in conjunction with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Consumer Action, a San Francisco-based advocacy group, was part of a call to arms against zombies, ...

Botnet-infected 'zombie' computers are an ever-growing risk, and IT security vendors are taking notice and offering more ways to fight back Data leakage prevention might currently be the hottest IT ...

Authorities in Singapore shut down a large network of around 10,000 robot, or “zombie,” computers this week, after technicians at Norwegian Internet service provider Telenor ASA stumbled on the ...