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The Week in Threats: Fake Logins, AI-Powered Botnets, and Shrinking Patch Windows
From a 296,000-device botnet to hackers borrowing AI tools, this week's threat roundup shows attackers getting faster, quieter, and stranger.
CameraSwarm: hackers hijack 14,500 Dahua cameras in month-long spree
A 35-day campaign quietly took over Dahua security cameras across Ukraine and Russia, planting a hidden backdoor account that even factory resets can't remove.
Comcast Turns Home Wi-Fi Into a Motion Sensor With New Xfinity Shield
The cable giant is pitching your router as a way to spot movement around the house, no cameras required. Privacy questions come with it.
New Kimwolf v7 Botnet Disguises DDoS Attacks as Normal Web Traffic
Palo Alto Networks says the upgraded Android and smart-device botnet hides its floods inside HTTP/2 sessions that look like ordinary browsing.
Malicious SIM cards can hijack the modems inside EV chargers and industrial gear, researchers find
A team at the University of Birmingham showed that a booby-trapped SIM can run attacker code on the cellular modules baked into cars, routers and chargers.
Fifteen Flaws in TP-Link's Auto-Setup System Could Hand Hackers Control of an Entire Business Network
Security firm Forescout found serious weaknesses in the technology TP-Link uses to automatically configure routers, switches, and cameras. Some flaws can be chained together to let an outsider quietly seize control of every device on a network.
Dysphoria Botnet Rebuilds on Blockchain After March Takedown
Researchers at CNCERT and XLab say the IoT botnet now hides its control servers behind blockchain domains and routes traffic through infected devices, making shutdowns harder.
Dutch Police Pull the Plug on 17-Million-Device Botnet Run Through 200+ NL Servers
Politie and NCSC seized command infrastructure hosted on Dutch soil, dismantling a network that pulled in PCs, phones, tablets and IoT gear at scale.