How to find out whether your computer is part of a botnet—and what to do about it

Watch WSJ’s Robert McMillan show off the tools needed to protect your tech from malicious software.
Forbes

How Not To Become A Botnet Victim: A Practical Guide For Everyone

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alex Vakulov is a cybersecurity expert focused on consumer security. Meet Sarah. She is a non-tech-savvy professional juggling ...

A Sneaky Back Door Lets Hackers Into Your Home. Here’s How to Protect Yourself.

A few tips can help you steer clear of so-called residential proxy networks, which have been used to wreak havoc online ...
Indiatimes

US takes down world’s largest network Botnets that hacked into digital video recorders, web cameras and WiFi routers across the world

The US Justice Department said it has taken action to disrupt a network of cybercriminal botnets used to carry out large-scale internet attacks that infected more than 3 million devices globally. The ...
CSOonline

Akamai proposes tool to defang cryptomining botnets

XMRogue would let defenders submit invalid mining job results from infected computers to get a proxy server banned from the botnet. For years, CSOs have been fighting botnets that are stealing ...