PM This week in cybersecurity: botnets, RCE flaws, AI-driven attacks, stealers, and more. Fast, no-fluff roundup.

A Russian national has been sentenced to two years in prison after admitting that the phishing botnet he managed was used to launch BitPaymer ransomware attacks against 72 U.S. companies. According to ...

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Researchers have stumbled upon a massive MAGA botnet of hundreds of accounts on Elon Musk's social media platform and right-wing echo chamber X-formerly-Twitter. As NBC News reports, the accounts use ...

A new RondoDox botnet campaign uses an "exploit shotgun" - fire at everything, see what hits - to target 56 vulnerabilities across at least 30 different vendors' routers, DVRs, CCTV systems, web ...

WASHINGTON, DC (IANS) – The US government has shut down a Chinese government-backed botnet that hijacked “hundreds” of small office and home office routers in the US. The hackers, known to the private ...

Federal prosecutors are asking people to notify them if they think they have been victimized by a computer-hacking scheme that was busted in May.

There’s malware lurking in shady smartphone apps and cheap off-brand household electronics. It has allowed operators of massive so-called botnet networks to use people’s home and wireless network ...

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.