Tag: botnet
A TV box maker sold criminals access to 1.3 million homes
Google cut ties with Videostrong and took down XCPE, a botnet that turned certified Android hardware into rented exit nodes.
Bitdefender counts 4.85 billion scans against home routers
Televisions and smart plugs carried nearly a quarter each of the vulnerability observations in nine months of telemetry from 10.4…
Symantec honeypot yields the blueprint for an automated intruder
Symantec caught an operator-built agent in a honeypot that scans for keyless model endpoints, bills the owner for inference and…
Dead updater disabled on millions of PCs nobody owned
An abandoned Popcorn Time updater ran as SYSTEM and fetched code over plain HTTP, making it a ready-made botnet for…
Budget Android phones ship with malware already in the firmware
A campaign called Midnight Mimosa plants persistent, uninstallable malware inside low-cost MediaTek devices across 150-plus countries.
FBI seizes seven domains tied to a Chinese hacking contractor
Federal agents pulled down tooling that a Beijing-linked contractor used to probe power plants, airports and universities worldwide.
Rented botnet drains victims’ AI credits with help from Grok
A new Windows botnet called x47.c uses xAI's Grok model to pick its next action and burns through victims' paid…
A botnet recruits an AI agent to harvest stolen API keys
CARBONATO hijacks exposed Docker daemons, then runs an AI agent to loot credentials and fund its own model access.