Is the Bredolab botnet really dead? On Monday, Dutch authorities announced that, working in conjunction with hosting provider LeaseWeb, they'd seized -- and crucially, disconnected from the Internet - ...

Armenian authorities arrested a 27-year-old man on Tuesday on suspicion of running a large botnet that was dismantled after a unique take-down operation by Dutch law enforcement and computer security ...

Dutch authorities say more arrests related to the Bredolab botnet may occur as investigators continue to examine the business arrangements behind the cybercrime operation. One arrest was made on ...

The creator of the Bredolab malware received a four-year prison sentence in Armenia on Monday for using his botnet to launch DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks that damaged multiple computer ...

The criminal charged with running the notorious Bredolab botnet will spend the next four years behind bars. An Armenian court on Tuesday (May 22) sentenced Georg Avanesov, 27, on computer sabotage ...

Despite the recent arrest of the Bredolab mastermind in Armenia, a small portion of Bredolab, has been able to survive, according to the FireEye Malware Intelligence Lab. The lab said it started ...

Major takedowns of the Zeus cyber crime ring, spamit.com and the Bredolab botnet have led to a sharp decrease in spam. But while spam levels continue to drop, phishing is on the increase, with attacks ...

Spam levels are down, at least for the moment. So says a new study released Thursday by Symantec, which found that spam comprised 86.6% of all messages in October, compared with 89.4% in September.

For more than 24 hours this week, it was a question that very few security experts could answer: Who had knocked the world's worst spam botnet offline? For more than 24 hours this week, it was a ...

Dutch authorities say more arrests related to the Bredolab botnet may occur as investigators continue to examine the business arrangements behind the cybercrime operation. One arrest was made on ...