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botnets

13 articles

Protecting your smart TV and set-top box from being hacked
  • Smart TV

Trojan TV, or the new risks of malicious proxies

How budget smart-TVs and set-top boxes infect home networks and join malicious botnets.

  • Stan Kaminsky

  • September 14, 2026

Malware in car infotainment systems: how infection occurs
  • Cars

Botnet on the road: the first trojan for car head units

Attackers have found yet another source of free computing resources: automotive head units. We take a look at the first malware specifically targeting cars for infection.

  • Dmitry Kalinin

  • August 21, 2026

Malicious TV boxes: how a cheap “SuperBox” turns your home into a proxy node for cybercriminals
  • Android

Is your TV box renting out your network?

Are you sure your Android TV box is secure? Cutting corners on streaming subscriptions could turn your device into part of a botnet, leave your IP addresses up for rent, and trigger other serious headaches.

  • Tom Fosters

  • May 20, 2026

Hidden dangers of free VPN services
  • botnets

How using free VPNs could land you in a botnet

The masterminds behind the colossal botnet encompassing 19 million IP addresses used free VPN services as bait to lure unsuspecting users.

  • Alanna Titterington

  • July 17, 2024

Kaspersky IoT Secure Gateway 1000, as a way to protect corporate IoT devices from any external interference.
  • IoT

Protecting corporate IoT devices

Cyber immune gateway that can shield IoT and IIoT devices from cyberthreats.

  • Hugh Aver

  • July 4, 2022

Vietnam started a coordinated anticybercrime campaign at the government level in 2020. The results are amazing
  • threats

What happens when a whole country tackles cyberthreats?

Vietnam started a coordinated anticybercrime campaign at the government level in 2020. The results are amazing.

  • Eugene Kaspersky

  • March 12, 2021

A look at the medieval legend as a cautionary tale of cyberweapon development
  • fairy tales

The Pied Piper of Hamelin and cyberweapons

The legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin has been used before as an allegory of real, tragic events. Here’s our take.

  • Nikolay Pankov

  • October 6, 2020

The Ginp banking Trojan urges victims to open their banking apps with SMS and push notifications, then overlays these apps and steals banking credentials
  • Android

Ginp mobile Trojan fakes incoming SMS messages

In the hunt for your bank card info, the malware overlays apps with phishing pages and uses fake notifications to get you to open the apps.

  • Alexander Eremin

  • February 14, 2020

The ransomware app now uses infected devices to send SMS messages abroad on the victim’s dime.
  • Android

The Faketoken Trojan sends out offensive texts

The ransomware app now uses infected devices to send SMS messages abroad on the victim’s dime.

  • Alexander Eremin

  • January 13, 2020

  • botnets

Mirai goes Enterprise

A new strain of Mirai is equipped with a much wider range of exploits, including some targeted at enterprise-class IoT devices.

  • Nikolay Pankov

  • March 20, 2019

  • tips

Zombie computers and how to avoid them

You’ve probably heard the word botnet more than once recently, and that’s hardly surprising. Any connected device can be zombified — turned into a part of a botnet. These include PCs, smartphones,

  • Marvin the Robot

  • December 5, 2016

  • ask expert

Ask the expert: Vitaly Kamluk answers questions about DDoS and botnets

Vitaly Kamluk has more than 10 years of work experience in IT security, and now he is Principal Security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab. He specializes in malware reverse engineering, computer

  • Marvin the Robot

  • June 29, 2015

attack
  • botnets

Attackers and the Battle to Evade Reputation Evaluators

Botnets are large networks of computers that spread malware across the Internet. In order to do that, botnets need to acquire large volumes of IP addresses for their malicious machines.

  • Serge Malenkovich

  • December 11, 2012

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