Tag: Internet
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How botnet-driven DDoS attacks evolved in 2H 2025
Tags: ai, attack, botnet, dark-web, ddos, defense, dns, finance, government, group, infrastructure, intelligence, international, Internet, iot, jobs, law, LLM, mitigation, network, resilience, risk, service, strategy, tactics, threat, tool, usa, vulnerabilityMassive attack capacity: Demonstration attacks peaked at 30Tbps and 4 gigapackets per second, primarily launched by Internet of Things (IoT) botnets such as Aisuru and TurboMirai variants.AI integration: The use of AI, including dark-web large language models (LLMs), moved from emerging trend to operational reality, making sophisticated attacks accessible to a wider range of threat actors.Persistent threat…
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Iranian Threat Actors Disrupt US Critical Infrastructure Via Exposed PLCs
Attackers compromised Internet-facing OT devices and caused file and display manipulation, operational disruption, and financial losses across sectors. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/ics-ot-security/iranian-threat-actors-us-critical-infrastructure-exposed-plcs
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Britons warned about Russian hackers targeting internet routers for espionage
Expert stresses importance of staying alert for unusual activity, as hackers could ‘take you to fake sites'<ul><li><a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/apr/08/keir-starmer-iran-war-trump-ceasefire-gulf-strait-of-hormuz-labour-conservatives-liberal-democrats-reform-scotland-holyrood-uk-politics-latest-news-updates”>UK politics live latest updates</li></ul>Russian hackers are exploiting commonly sold internet routers to harvest information for espionage purposes, the UK’s cybersecurity agency has said.The hack could allow attackers to obtain users’ credentials, redirect them to fake sites, and…
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Durch KI überlastet: Kein Geld mehr für Bug-Reports an Open-Source-Projekte
Internet Bug Bounty zahlt vorerst keine Prämien mehr. Das betrifft unter anderem Node.js. Der Grund: Mit KI wird viel gemeldet, aber wenig gefixt. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/wichtiges-bug-bounty-programm-pausiert-ki-reports-ueberlasten-open-source-projekte-2604-207325.html
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The zero-day timeline just collapsed. Here’s what security leaders do next
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, authentication, breach, cio, ciso, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, endpoint, exploit, google, Internet, Intruder, leak, least-privilege, open-source, penetration-testing, resilience, service, strategy, tactics, update, vulnerability, zero-dayScaling vulnerability discovery to machine speed: Agentic AI is AI that can act, not just advise. Give it an objective, and it will plan steps, run them, learn from what happens and adjust until it succeeds or hits a hard stop. In cybersecurity, that looks like an automated operator. It can probe an application, test…
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Wichtiges Bug-Bounty-Programm pausiert: KI-Reports überlasten Open-Source-Projekte
Internet Bug Bounty zahlt vorerst keine Prämien mehr. Das betrifft unter anderem Node.js. Der Grund: Mit KI wird viel gemeldet, aber wenig gefixt. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/wichtiges-bug-bounty-programm-pausiert-ki-reports-ueberlasten-open-source-projekte-2604-207325.html
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U.S. agencies alert: Iran-linked actors target critical infrastructure PLCs
U.S. agencies warn Iran-linked threat actors are targeting internet-exposed PLCs used in critical infrastructure networks. U.S. agencies, including the FBI and CISA, warn that Iran-linked hackers are targeting internet-exposed Rockwell/Allen-Bradley PLCs used in critical infrastructure. The agencies published a joint advisory involving multiple federal organizations. >>Iran-affiliated advanced persistent threat (APT) actors are conducting exploitation activity…
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Russian Threat Actors Abuse Home Routers in Expanding DNS Hijacking Wave
Russian military-linked hackers are actively compromising poorly secured home and small-office routers to hijack internet traffic and spy on organizations worldwide. Microsoft Threat Intelligence recently exposed this massive global campaign by a group known as Forest Blizzard, which has already impacted over 200 organisations and 5,000 consumer devices. Forest Blizzard is a sophisticated state-sponsored threat…
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Fiber Optic Cables Turned Into Hidden Microphones to Spy on Private Conversations
Internet users worldwide rely on fiber optic cables for blazing-fast and secure web connections. However, a groundbreaking discovery reveals that these very cables can be turned into covert listening devices. In a newly published 2026 cybersecurity research paper, experts demonstrated how standard telecom optical fibers can secretly capture airborne sounds, allowing attackers to eavesdrop on…
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ComfyUI Servers Hijacked for Cryptomining, Proxy Botnet Ops
Hackers are aggressively hijacking Internet-exposed ComfyUI servers and converting them into high”‘value cryptomining rigs and proxy botnet nodes, abusing weakly secured AI image-generation setups for long”‘term monetization. More than 1,000 ComfyUI servers are currently reachable on the public Internet, even after filtering out honeypots, giving attackers a small but lucrative attack surface concentrated on GPU”‘rich…
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Iran-Linked Hackers Disrupt U.S. Critical Infrastructure by Targeting Internet-Exposed PLCs
Tags: attack, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, finance, hacker, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, iran, technologyIran-affiliated cyber actors are targeting internet-facing operational technology (OT) devices across critical infrastructures in the U.S., including programmable logic controllers (PLCs), cybersecurity and intelligence agencies warned Tuesday.”These attacks have led to diminished PLC functionality, manipulation of display data and, in some cases, operational disruption and financial First seen on thehackernews.com Jump to article: thehackernews.com/2026/04/iran-linked-hackers-disrupt-us-critical.html
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What Anthropic Glasswing reveals about the future of vulnerability discovery
From backlog management to exposure-window risk: The issue, as Williams frames it, is not simply how many vulnerabilities exist, but how they are managed. “Mythos makes one thing painfully clear,” he says. “This is not a prioritization problem. It’s an exposure-window problem.”Traditional vulnerability management has been built around prioritization, ranking issues by severity, exploitability, and…
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Anthropic: All your zero-days are belong to Mythos
Hasn’t released it to the public, because it would break the internet – in a bad way First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/04/07/anthropic_all_your_zerodays_are_belong_to_us/
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Iran cyber actors disrupting US water, energy facilities, FBI warns
Your PLCs aren’t internet-connected, right? Right?! First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/04/07/iran_hackers_disrupting_us_water_energy/
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US Critical Infrastructure Facing Iranian-Linked OT Threats
CISA: Iran-Linked Groups Actively Exploiting OT Exposure Risks, PLC Programmers. Federal agencies are warning that Iranian-linked actors have begun actively exploiting internet-facing PLCs and misconfigured OT systems across U.S. critical infrastructure, enabling network access, lateral movement and potential disruption amid rising geopolitical tensions. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/us-critical-infrastructure-facing-iranian-linked-ot-threats-a-31360
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Cybercrime losses break the $20 billion mark
Online crime continues to generate rising financial losses, with totals reaching $20.877 billion in 2025. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report shows a 26% … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/07/online-crime-financial-losses-fbi-report/
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Cybercrime losses break the $20 billion mark
Online crime continues to generate rising financial losses, with totals reaching $20.877 billion in 2025. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report shows a 26% … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/07/online-crime-financial-losses-fbi-report/
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Russia Hacked Routers to Steal Microsoft Office Tokens
Hackers linked to Russia’s military intelligence units are using known flaws in older Internet routers to mass harvest authentication tokens from Microsoft Office users, security experts warned today. The spying campaign allowed state-backed Russian hackers to quietly siphon authentication tokens from users on more than 18,000 networks without deploying any malicious software or code. First…
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US warns of Iranian hackers targeting critical infrastructure
Iranian-linked hackers are targeting Internet-exposed Rockwell/Allen-Bradley programmable logic controllers (PLCs) on the networks of U.S. critical infrastructure organizations. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-warns-of-iranian-hackers-targeting-critical-infrastructure/
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Russian hackers hijack internet traffic using vulnerable routers
The Russian state cyber group APT28 has been compromising routers to hijack web traffic and spy on victims, the UK’s The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned. … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/07/russian-hackers-router-hijacking-dns-credential-theft/
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UK exposes Russian cyber unit hacking home routers to hijack internet traffic
Officials said the activity centers on compromising small office and home office routers and similar network devices exposed to the internet, often because of weak security settings or outdated software. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/uk-exposes-russian-cyber-unit-hacking-home-routers
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Cyberattack on telecom giant Rostelecom disrupts internet services across Russia
A “large-scale” distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeted the network of Russian state-run telecom giant Rostelecom on Monday evening, temporarily disrupting online banking, government platforms and other digital services across dozens of cities. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/rostelecom-cyberattack-disrupts-russian-internet-access
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Over 1,000 Exposed ComfyUI Instances Targeted in Cryptomining Botnet Campaign
An active campaign has been observed targeting internet-exposed instances running ComfyUI, a popular stable diffusion platform, to enlist them into a cryptocurrency mining and proxy botnet.”A purpose-built Python scanner continuously sweeps major cloud IP ranges for vulnerable targets, automatically installing malicious nodes via ComfyUI-Manager if no exploitable node is already First seen on thehackernews.com Jump…
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Rheinmetall und Co.: Datenhändler gefährden Rüstungsunternehmen in der Ukraine
Händler bieten im Internet Bewegungsdaten von Millionen Smartphones an – eine Gefahr für Soldaten und Fabriken in der Ukraine. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/rheinmetall-und-co-datenhaendler-gefaehrden-ruestungsunternehmen-in-der-ukraine-2604-207289.html
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Life imprisonment for Cambodian scam compound operators but will it make a difference?
Cambodia has taken a dramatic step in its fight against scam compounds that have imprisoned innocent people, and forced them to work as virtual slaves defrauding victims via the internet around the world with romance scams and dodgy investment schemes. First seen on bitdefender.com Jump to article: www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/life-imprisonment-cambodian-scam-operators
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China-Linked Storm-1175 Exploits Zero-Days to Rapidly Deploy Medusa Ransomware
A China-based threat actor known for deploying Medusa ransomware has been linked to the weaponization of a combination of zero-day and N-day vulnerabilities to orchestrate “high-velocity” attacks and break into susceptible internet-facing systems.”The threat actor’s high operational tempo and proficiency in identifying exposed perimeter assets have proven successful, with recent First seen on thehackernews.com Jump…
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Why AI Bot Protection and Control Are Essential for Application Security
Tags: ai, api, application-security, automation, control, infrastructure, Internet, tool, vulnerabilityAI-driven automation is no longer emerging. It is already integrated and accepted as internet traffic. From AI assistants and crawlers to enterprise automation tools, websites are now routinely accessed by non-human actors operating at scale. Vulnerabilities or weaknesses in your application infrastructure, including risky APIs, are no longer difficult to find, as agentic AI tools,……
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Censys Raises $70M to Advance AI-Driven Threat Intelligence
Internet Intelligence Platform Targets Real-Time Cybethreat Defense. Censys raised $70 million to expand its AI-driven cybersecurity platform, focusing on real-time visibility into internet infrastructure. Co-founder and CEO Zakir Durumeric said faster attacks and evolving tactics require automated defenses powered by high-quality data and global intelligence. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/censys-raises-70m-to-advance-ai-driven-threat-intelligence-a-31349
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North Korean hackers abuse LNKs and GitHub repos in ongoing campaign
GitHub as C2: Researchers also highlighted the campaign’s use of GitHub as a C2 layer. Rather than communicating with suspicious-looking or newly registered domains, the malware interacts with GitHub repositories and APIs to receive instructions and exfiltrate data.”The fact that this shortcut file creates a chain that ultimately reaches out to a GitHub repository, and…