The "apex" botnet's ongoing activities highlight how consumer devices are being weaponized to launch cyberattacks on the world stage.

Kimwolf grew rapidly in the waning months of 2025 by tricking various “residential proxy” services into relaying malicious commands to devices on the local networks of those proxy endpoints.

Those pesky bots.

Cheap Android TV boxes have quietly become one of the most dangerous devices on the home network, not because of what you watch on them but because of what they might be doing in the background.

Cloudflare announced that it had detected and stopped the 29.7-terabit-per-second (Tbps) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which was the biggest one ever. According to the web ...

Our first story of 2026 revealed how a destructive new botnet called Kimwolf has infected more than two million devices by mass-compromising a vast number of unofficial Android TV streaming boxes.

Are there Botnet controlled hosts on your network? Are your hosts infected with malware or spyware that is trying to “phone-home”? How would you know? One way to find out is to employ Cisco ASA’s new ...

Carlos Morales is SVP and GM, DDoS and Application Security, DigiCert. Many of you probably unwrapped a smart device this ...