Google and the FBI Target Massive Botnet That Quietly Used Home Devices to Mask Cybercrime ...

I have written about the FSF facing DDoS attacks several times, including on doing our part to clean up the internet and on Uptime Kuma, as well as Ian Kelling's "Our small team vs millions of bots".

A new attack technique dubbed HalluSquatting turns AI assistants’ tendency to hallucinate into a scalable infection vector.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated ...

The smart TV or streaming box sitting in your living room may have spent the past several years quietly renting your home internet connection to hackers, password-spraying crews, and government ...

Microsoft, international law enforcement, and cybersecurity firms used AI to analyze and shut down the infrastructure used to run campaigns with Amadey and StealC malware in what the IT giant calls a ...

In the brief history of AI security, the prompt injection has quickly become the top threat. Large language models are ...

What we know so far: A coordinated effort by US law enforcement and private-sector researchers has disrupted a major residential proxy network that turned everyday consumer devices into tools for ...

Google, the FBI and the IRS Criminal Investigation division disrupted NetNut, a residential proxy network built on two million hijacked devices and used by 316 threat clusters in a single week.

China-linked JDY botnet grew from 650 to 1,500+ hacked SOHO devices. It scans for new vulnerabilities within hours and feeds targeting data to state hackers. A covert botnet linked to Chinese ...

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