Botnet activity has surged dramatically over the past year, with security researchers tracking record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and increasingly sophisticated evasion techniques. Spamhaus reported a 26% increase in botnet command-and-control (C2) servers in the first half of 2025, followed by another 24% jump in the second half, with 21,425 botnet C2 servers observed between […] The post Mirai Botnet Growth Spurs Massive DDoS Attacks and Proxy Exploits appeared first on Cyber Security News.