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You can file this next bit of news under a creative but uniquely sophisticated category of software engineering. Black Lotus Labs security researchers have discovered a new botnet, powering a rather ...

Pillow , the most widely used image library for Python, can be made to run operating system commands on a server by ...

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (C) looks on during a bilateral meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers ...

The FBI and U.S. Justice Department have seized seven domains tied to Microscan and FishHub, two hacking tools allegedly operated by China-based Integrity Technology Group. Announced on October 8, ...

Exposed WordPress backups have become a valuable source of cloud and email credentials for attackers using a toolkit called TIKTOUK. Rather than relying on one technique, its components search ...

A newly discovered Docker botnet is implanting AI agents onto compromised hosts in order to send stolen credentials back to the attackers. ThreatDown researchers recently uncovered Carbonato, a botnet ...

Cybersecurity expert Ken Underhill reports from CrowdStrike on the disruption of the 20-year-old Sality botnet and what security teams need to know. The Sality peer-to-peer botnet, which CrowdStrike ...

International law enforcement agencies and private partners have seized Sality malware infrastructure in a joint action aiming to disrupt and take down the peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet. As part of this ...

The FBI has seized a series of domains that were used by a large-scale botnet to coordinate and launch China-backed cyberattacks against American targets. According to the Justice Department’s ...

A new Windows malware loader called Aeternum is using the Polygon blockchain to establish a command-and-control mechanism designed to withstand conventional takedown efforts, according to researchers ...

A new modular Linux botnet family based on publicly leaked source code from the Mirai botnet has been linked to exploitation attempts for several vulnerabilities in edge devices. A Taiwan-based ...