is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered virtual and augmented reality, the history of computing, and more for The Verge since 2011. Social ...

Botnets often make the cybersecurity headlines – but they’re far from the Skynet nightmare that you’d assume at first glance.

Over the past decade, the information security (infosec) field has seen a near-constant rise in malware activity. Without a doubt, the 2010s was the decade when malware exploded from a casual ...