Twelve million new zombie computers have been hijacked by cyber-criminals since January, according to a report by anti-virus software company McAfee. The security vendor said there has been a 50 per ...

IMAGINE it. Zombie computers that are possessed by the spirits of others. Zombie computers that infect new victims in cyberspace. Zombie computers hell-bent on attacking our interests and stealing our ...

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 ...

Microsoft's action, which was done in conjunction with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Consumer Action, a San Francisco-based advocacy group, was part of a call to arms against zombies, ...

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 stumbled on the illicit ...