Hackers resurrect 90s IRC tricks with SSHStalker, using old exploits to quietly compromise thousands of Linux servers ...

In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform ...

Wikipedia editors are discussing whether to blacklist Archive.today because the archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blogger who wrote a post in 2023 ...

Thousands of real websites are hijacked by cybercriminals using DNS to invisibly redirect and infect victims.

Intruder, a leader in exposure management, today released new security research detailing vulnerabilities in Moltbot, formerly known as Clawdbot, an open-source, self-hosted AI assistant. The research ...

Google just crippled IPIDEA, freeing millions of hijacked devices and cutting off a major cybercrime pipeline.

A newly documented Linux botnet named SSHStalker is using the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) communication protocol for command-and-control (C2) operations.

A newly discovered botnet is compromising poorly-protected Linux servers by brute-forcing weak SSH password login ...

The cybercriminals in control of Kimwolf — a disruptive botnet that has infected more than 2 million devices — recently shared a screenshot indicating they’d compromised the control panel for Badbox 2 ...

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