March 29, 2024
Daily News
Commerce and CISA release update on botnet efforts, citing IoT and software security initiatives
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and Commerce Department have issued an update on cross-agency and industry collaborations launched in 2018 as part of a broad strategy to confront botnets, identified at the time by the Trump administration as perhaps the top challenge to internet security.
The CISA-Commerce update warns that botnets are growing in sophistication and expanding “to utilize new types of connected devices.” It says, “Given that the report predicts a continued increase in botnet ‘power,’ this offers...