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Threat Intelligence

Researchers Say 14,500 Dahua Cameras Fell to a Six-Week Hijack Campaign

Hunt.io traced Operation CameraSwarm through an exposed 407 MB working directory, revealing password guessing, two authentication-bypass flaws, and a peer-to-peer relay trick.

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Threat Intelligence

21 Cybersecurity Companies Changed Hands in July 2026

From a billion-dollar identity security deal to a bank buying a British consultancy, July was a busy month for cybersecurity acquisitions. Here is what each deal means in plain English.

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Threat Intelligence

Russian spies are hijacking Europe's security cameras to watch weapons move to Ukraine

Dutch intelligence says a Kremlin unit is quietly logging into internet-connected CCTV to track military convoys, aid shipments and troop positions.

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Vulnerabilities

One Hacked Shark Robot Vacuum Can Hand an Attacker the Keys to Every Shark Vacuum in the Region

A researcher pulled a security key off a $500 robot vacuum and used it to run commands on other people's Shark vacuums, including reading their Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext.

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Threat Intelligence

A Botnet Author Asked an AI for Malware. The AI Left the Warning Label On.

Researchers found TuxBot v3 Evolution, a new IoT botnet whose creator appears to have copy-pasted AI-generated code, safety disclaimer and all.

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Vulnerabilities

Six New Bugs in U-Boot Could Let Attackers Hijack Devices at Startup

Binarly researchers found flaws in the tiny program that boots routers, cameras and server chips. Two of them could let intruders run their own code before the device even wakes up.

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Vulnerabilities

80,000 Hikvision Security Cameras Left Wide Open — and Criminals Are Selling the Keys

A critical flaw in one of the world's most popular surveillance cameras has sat unpatched for nearly a year on tens of thousands of devices. Now hackers are trading access on underground forums.

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Policy & Regulation

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.

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Threat Intelligence

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.

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Threat Intelligence

JDY Botnet Turns 1,500 Compromised SOHO Devices Into a Nation-State Targeting Engine

Lumen's Black Lotus Labs links the scanning network to Volt Typhoon. The threat isn't the botnet itself — it's the reconnaissance data it harvests before you've even read the CVE advisory.

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