The ghosts and ghouls of October have come and gone, but the dangers lurking behind virtual walls have hardly disappeared. The threat of zombie bots is real, and it exists 365 days out of the year.

Internet service provider 3FN has been ordered out of business by a district court on advice and request of the Federal Trade Commission. It is accused of a variety of illegal activities. It’s been ...

Four million zombies have been orphaned from their now-dead botnet; six suspects have been arrested in Estonia. Operation Ghost Click has acted against various malware-mediated frauds and other crime.

One of the biggest ever web attacks - in which more than one terabit of data was fired at a website to knock it offline - has been reported. Web hosting company OVH said it had been attacked by a ...