#botnet
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HalluSquatting: How AI Hallucinations Are Being Turned Into a Doorway for Malware
Security researchers have found a way to turn a known quirk of AI chatbots into a method for delivering malicious software directly to developers' computers, without hacking the AI itself.
Google and FBI Kneecap NetNut, Cutting Millions of Home Devices From Proxy Pool
Google's Threat Intelligence Group says a joint operation with the FBI and Lumen has stripped millions of infected home devices from NetNut, also tracked as Popa.
RustDuck: A Rust-Based DDoS Botnet Quietly Building Out Since February
XLab researchers say the two-stage loader is iterating faster than its install base is growing, and that's the interesting part.
Weekly Threat Roundup: EDR Killers, Browser Bugs, and an Android Trojan With Too Many Hands
Abused integrations, poisoned WordPress, and ransomware crews still gunning for endpoint sensors, familiar tradecraft, better packaged.
CSIS Got a Warrant to Reach Into Canadian Routers and Kill Two Botnets
A Federal Court ruling unsealed June 15 is the first public use of CSIS threat-reduction warrant powers against infected infrastructure on Canadian soil.
AryStinger Quietly Conscripts 4,300 Old Routers Into a Recon Proxy Fabric
Researchers say the malware skips the usual DDoS playbook and instead builds infrastructure for pre-breach reconnaissance.
Briefing: Apple Fixes Beats Bug, GCP Config Connector Flaw Enables Account Takeover, Velvet Ant's Decade in the Shadows
A Bluetooth eavesdropping patch, a quietly dangerous GCP authorization flaw, and a threat actor that spent ten years undetected, here is what you may have missed.
Justice Department Charges Ottawa Man With Operating Kimwolf DDoS Botnet
Federal prosecutors say Jacob Butler, 23, developed and rented out a variant of the AISURU botnet for paid denial-of-service attacks.