A 20-year-old accused of using hundreds of thousands of hijacked computers, or "bot nets," to damage systems and send massive waves of spam across the Internet, pleaded guilty to federal charges on ...

Botnets often make the cybersecurity headlines – but they’re far from the Skynet nightmare that you’d assume at first glance. Botnets aren’t some sort of sci-fi AI hivemind, admittedly, but they are ...

A 20-year-old who prosecutors say highjacked computers to damage computer networks and send waves of spam across the Internet was sentenced on Monday to nearly five years in prison. Jeanson James ...

Russian investigators have uncovered chat logs between the botmaster in charge of the “Cutwail” botnet and a founder of a fake pharmaceutical spam operation that hint at the botmaster’s identity. The ...

The security administrator turned black hat, John Schiefer, has been sentenced to four years in federal prison in what's been hailed as the first case of its kind in the United States. Schiefer pled ...