HalluSquatting AI attack could hijack your computer

HalluSquatting exploits AI coding assistants that hallucinate fake repository names, letting attackers register those names ...
AOL

Is Your Computer Secretly Part of a Botnet? Here’s How to Find Out Fast

A computer can hum along like everything works perfectly while quietly doing something far more sinister behind the scenes. Cybercriminals love that illusion because it keeps their operations ...
Bleeping Computer

MikroTik botnet uses misconfigured SPF DNS records to spread malware

A newly discovered botnet of 13,000 MikroTik devices uses a misconfiguration in domain name server records to bypass email protections and deliver malware by spoofing roughly 20,000 web domains. The ...
The Hill

FBI dismantles cybercrime botnet of 19M infected computers

A Chinese national was charged Wednesday with leading the “world’s largest botnet,” responsible for “billions” in cybercrime, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday. The DOJ said YunHe ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

A Computer Scientist Battles Botnets

Computer-security analysts have long since learned to hate “botnets”: clusters of computers, infected with worms or Trojan-horse programs, that are taken over by outside users. After all, botnets can ...

Google Gemini CLI abused as a hacking agent, malware botnet operator

A Russian-speaking threat actor known as "bandcampro" used Google's open-source Gemini CLI AI tool as a hacking agent and to ...
Morning Overview on MSN

The FBI says malware has hijacked more than a million Android devices into a botnet

The FBI warned on June 5 that malware known as BADBOX 2.0 has quietly recruited millions of consumer Android devices into a ...
Krebs on Security

Is Your Computer Part of ‘The Largest Botnet Ever?’

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today said they arrested the alleged operator of 911 S5, a ten-year-old online anonymity service that was powered by what the director of the FBI called “likely ...
Techlicious

Was Your Computer Part of the World’s Largest Botnet?

One of the largest botnets ever is gone, as an international law enforcement operation led by the U.S. Justice Department shut down the 911 S5 botnet. A botnet is a collection of compromised computers ...
techtimes

SOHO Router-Targeting Botnet AVrecon Infiltrates More Than 70,000 Devices in 20 Countries: How Dangerous Is This Malware Strain?

A stealthy Linux malware called AVrecon has been infecting over 70,000 small office/home office (SOHO) routers, creating a botnet primarily aimed at stealing bandwidth and operating as a hidden ...
Krebs on Security

Administrator of RSOCKS Proxy Botnet Pleads Guilty

Denis Emelyantsev, a 36-year-old Russian man accused of running a massive botnet called RSOCKS that stitched malware into millions of devices worldwide, pleaded guilty to two counts of computer crime ...