Malware & Threats
Law enforcement agencies in multiple countries have announced the arrests of users of the malicious Smokeloader botnet.
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Malware & Threats
A recently disclosed Edimax zero-day vulnerability has been exploited in the wild by Mirai botnets for nearly a year.
Malware & Threats
Cato Networks has analyzed a new IoT botnet named Ballista, which targets TP-Link Archer routers.
IoT Security
Edimax is aware that CVE-2025-1316 has been exploited in the wild, but the impacted devices were discontinued over a decade ago.
IoT Security
Multiple Mirai-based botnets are exploiting CVE-2025-1316, an Edimax IP camera vulnerability that allows remote command execution.
IoT Security
A second iteration of the BadBox botnet that affected over one million Android devices has been partially disrupted.
IoT Security
The Eleven11bot botnet has been described as one of the largest known DDoS botnets observed in recent years.
IoT Security
The Vo1d botnet is now powered by 1.6 million Android TV devices, up from 1.3 million half a year ago.
Malware & Threats
A China-linked botnet powered by 130,000 hacked devices has targeted Microsoft 365 accounts with password spraying attacks.
Application Security
San Francisco startup secures $8.5 million in seed funding led by Valley Capital Partners to tackle browser-based malware attacks.
Malware & Threats
The Mirai-based Aquabot botnet has been targeting a vulnerability in Mitel SIP phones for which a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit exists.
Malware & Threats
The Mirai-based Murdoc botnet has been actively targeting Avtech and Huawei devices for roughly half a year.
IoT Security
Bitsight has discovered a BadBox botnet consisting of over 190,000 Android devices, mainly Yandex smart TVs and Hisense smartphones.
Malware & Threats
Juniper Networks says a Mirai botnet is ensnaring session smart router devices that are using default passwords.
Cybercrime
A threat actor tracked as Water Barghest has compromised over 20,000 IoT devices and monetizes them as residential proxies.
Malware & Threats
A zero-day vulnerability affecting five discontinued GeoVision product models has been exploited by a botnet.
Nation-State
Security researchers say the botnet created by China’s Volt Typhoon re-emerged recently, leveraging the same core infrastructure and techniques.
Nation-State
The US government has announced the disruption of Raptor Train, a Flax Typhoon botnet powered by hacked consumer devices.
Malware & Threats
Black Lotus Labs estimates that more than 200,000 routers, network-attached storage servers, and IP cameras have been ensnared in the botnet.
Malware & Threats
A Mirai-like botnet has started exploiting a critical-severity vulnerability in discontinued Zyxel NAS products.
Cybercrime
The FBI has officially pinned the $6 billion Binance hack on North Korea’s TraderTraitor as the attackers launder the stolen crypto.
Malware & Threats
Vulnerabilities
Funding/M&A
Significant cybersecurity deals were announced by Absolute Security, Aikido, Anthropic, Cohere, Hex-Rays, and Proofpoint.
Data Breaches
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