New research indicates that more than 200,000 computers were commandeered and turned into “zombies” each day last month, and that the amount of virus messaging on the Internet has increased by 50 ...

The Australian government on Monday recruited five Internet service providers to hunt down virus-infected computers used to send spam or launch denial-of-service attacks from within the country. These ...

Authorities in Singapore shut down a large network of around 10,000 robot, or “zombie,” computers this week, after technicians at Norwegian Internet service provider Telenor ASA stumbled on the ...

Botnet-infected 'zombie' computers are an ever-growing risk, and IT security vendors are taking notice and offering more ways to fight back Data leakage prevention might currently be the hottest IT ...

Hoping to turn the tide on spam zombies, Microsoft has filed suit against entities it said used compromised PCs to send millions of junk e-mail messages. The company has identified 13 different ...

The zombie computers used to send spam are coming back to life. Security vendors say spammers are reconnecting with hacked PCs used for sending spam as evidenced by a rising number of spam messages ...