Botnet Made Up Of 7,000 End-Of-Life Routers Taken Down
A joint U.S.-Dutch law enforcement operation has taken down a botnet-for-hire that was comprised of thousands of end-of-life routers. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)…
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Police dismantles botnet selling hacked routers as residential proxies
Law enforcement authorities have dismantled a botnet that infected thousands of routers over the last 20 years to build two networks of residential proxies known…
New Supply Chain Attack Compromises Popular npm Package with 45,000 Weekly Downloads
An advanced supply chain attack has targeted the well-known npm package rand-user-agent, which receives about 45,000 downloads every week, in a worrying development for the…
Google Chrome to use on-device AI to detect tech support scams
Google is implementing a new Chrome security feature that uses the built-in ‘Gemini Nano’ large-language model (LLM) to detect and block tech support scams while browsing…
Threat Actors Target Job Seekers with Three New Unique Adversaries
Netcraft has uncovered a sharp rise in recruitment scams in 2024, driven by three distinct threat actors employing unique and highly technical strategies to exploit…
A cyber attack briefly disrupted South African Airways operations
A cyber attack briefly disrupted South African Airways operations Pierluigi Paganini May 09, 2025 A cyberattack briefly disrupted South African Airways’ website, app, and systems,…
Senators move to quash the use of Chinese AI system by federal contractors
A bipartisan Senate bill would formally ban the use of DeepSeek by federal contractors, part of a larger effort to keep the Chinese-made large language…
Ascension says recent data breach affects over 430,000 patients
Ascension, one of the largest private healthcare systems in the United States, has revealed that a data breach disclosed last month affects the personal and…
Hackers Weaponizing Facebook Ads to Deploy Multi-Stage Malware Attacks
A persistent and highly sophisticated malvertising campaign on Facebook has been uncovered by Bitdefender Labs, exploiting the trust associated with major cryptocurrency exchanges to distribute…
Google Chrome will use AI to block tech support scam websites
Google has expressed plans to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to stop tech support scams in Chrome. With the launch of Chrome version 137, Google plans…
OtterCookie v4 Adds VM Detection and Chrome, MetaMask Credential Theft Capabilities
The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign have been observed using updated versions of a cross-platform malware called OtterCookie with capabilities to…
New Stealthy .NET Malware Hiding Malicious Payloads within bitmap resources
Cybersecurity researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have uncovered a novel obfuscation method employed by threat actors to conceal malware within bitmap resources of…