Cryptocurrency and blockchain project databases with weak credentials and AI-generated are being hacked through deployment ...

Cheap Android TV boxes have quietly become one of the most dangerous devices on the home network, not because of what you ...

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Thousands of ASUS routers have been hacked to form a major botnet, exploiting vulnerabilities including CVE-2023-39780. Attackers installed persistent backdoors, making detection difficult. Users are ...

The RondoDox botnet has been observed exploiting the critical React2Shell flaw (CVE-2025-55182) to infect vulnerable Next.js servers with malware and cryptominers. First documented by Fortinet in July ...

Western cybersecurity agencies have issued a new advisory warning of a large-scale botnet, managed by a China-based company with links to the Chinese government. The botnet is understood to consist of ...

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 ...

A relatively new Mirai-based botnet has been growing in sophistication and is now leveraging zero-day exploits for security flaws in industrial routers and smart home devices. Exploitation of ...

The Justice Department today announced a court-authorized operation to disrupt a botnet affecting 200,000 devices in the United States and abroad. According to unsealed documents, the botnet, known as ...

Google has filed a lawsuit against the operators of a what is believed to be the largest smart TV botnet in the world — BadBox 2.0. The company said in its complaint that this China-based botnet had ...

A Chinese-controlled botnet of tens of thousands of unpatched internet-connected firewalls, network attached storage devices, internet-connected surveillance cameras, and small office/home office ...