Botnet Stories for 2017

Mirai IoT Botnet Co-Authors Plead Guilty 33
How 'Grinch Bots' Are Ruining Online Christmas Shopping 283
A Third of the Internet Experienced DoS Attacks in the Last Two Years 31
Malware Developer Who Used Spam Botnet To Pay For College Gets No Prison Time 57
2 Million IoT Devices Enslaved By Fast-Growing BotNet 69
At Least 1.65 Million Computers Are Mining Cryptocurrency For Hackers So Far This Year 37
Massive New Spambot Ensnares 711,000,000 Email Addresses 31
Tech Firms Team Up To Take Down 'WireX' Android DDoS Botnet 29
A Year After Mirai: DVR Torture Chamber Test Shows Two Minutes Between Exploits 36
Who's Responsible For IoT Security? 181
Attackers DDoS WannaCry Kill Switch 73
Groups War Over Resources For DDoS Attacks 23
FCC Suspends Net Neutrality Comments, As Chairman Pai Mocks 'Mean Tweets' 184
New IoT Malware Targets 100,000 IP Cameras Via Known Flaw 60
New Shodan Tool Tracks Down Botnet Command-And-Control Servers 11
BrickerBot, the Permanent Denial-of-Service Botnet, Is Back With a Vengeance 113
Developer of BrickerBot Malware Claims He Destroyed Over Two Million Devices 88
New Destructive Malware Intentionally Bricks IoT Devices 163
UW Professor: The Information War Is Real, and We're Losing It 444
Bruce Schneier Calls for IoT Legislation, Argues The Internet Is Becoming One Giant Robot 85
UK Police Arrest Suspect Behind Mirai Malware Attacks On Deutsche Telekom 26
World's Largest Spam Botnet Adds DDoS Feature 26
Study Reveals Bot-On-Bot Editing Wars Raging On Wikipedia's Pages 98
College Network Attacked With Its Own Insecure IoT Devices 53
Programmer Develops Phone Bot To Target Windows Support Scammers 97
14,000 Domains Dropped Dyn's DNS Service After Mirai Attack 27
Can The Mayhem AI Automate Bug-Patching? 23
Researchers Discover Massive Networks of Fake Twitter Accounts 91
Krebs Pinpoints the Likely Author of the Mirai Botnet 98

"Sometimes insanity is the only alternative" -- button at a Science Fiction convention.