Malwarebytes

APRIL 16, 2025

If you sometimes feel that the internet isn’t the same vibrant place it used to be, you’re not alone. Bad bots comprised 37% of internet traffic in 2024, up from 32% the year prior. Good bots accounted for just 14% of the internet’s traffic. Bad bots do all kinds of unpleasant things.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Were just getting started down the road to the Internet of Everything (IoE.) Perimeter-focused defenses must be retired and the focus must shift to where the action is — at the furthest edges of the internet, where billions of IoT sensors and controls are proliferating — with scan oversight.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 8, 2025

internet providers, including AT&T, Lumen (formerly CenturyLink), and Verizon, to access systems they use for facilitating customer data to law enforcement and governments. The hacks reportedly may have resulted in the “vast collection of internet traffic”; from the telecom and internet giants.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Currently, there are around 2,500 registrars authorized to sell domains by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the California nonprofit that oversees the domain industry. John Levine is author of the book “The Internet for Dummies” and president of CAUCE.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 17, 2024

6.8% , to be precise. From ZDNet : However, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks continue to be cybercriminals’ weapon of choice, making up over 37% of all mitigated traffic. The scale of these attacks is staggering. In the first quarter of 2024 alone, Cloudflare blocked 4.5 million unique DDoS attacks.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 14, 2025

There is a new botnet that is infecting TP-Link routers: The botnet can lead to command injection which then makes remote code execution (RCE) possible so that the malware can spread itself across the internet automatically.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 14, 2024

It gets installed by exploiting more than 20,000 common misconfigurations, a capability that may make millions of machines connected to the Internet potential targets, researchers from Aqua Security said. Perfectl in an impressive piece of malware: The malware has been circulating since at least 2021.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 29, 2025

A graphic from the FBI explaining how Funnull generated a slew of new domains on a regular basis and mapped them to Internet addresses on U.S. cloud providers. based cloud networks, as doing so can result in blocking access to many legitimate web destinations that are also on that same shared network segment or host.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Prosecutors say Anonymous Sudan offered a “Limited Internet Shutdown Package,” which would enable customers to shut down internet service providers in specified countries for $500 (USD) an hour. An indictment in the Central District of California notes the duo even swamped the websites of the FBI and the Department of State.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

BEARHOST prides itself on the ability to evade blocking by Spamhaus , an organization that many Internet service providers around the world rely on to help identify and block sources of malware and spam. Kaspersky did not respond to repeated requests for comment. Image: cidr-report.org.

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WIRED Threat Level

MAY 14, 2025

Following a WIRED inquiry, Telegram banned thousands of accounts used for crypto scam money laundering, including those of Haowang Guarantee, a black market that enabled over $27 billion in transactions.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 28, 2025

The case centred around a Windscribe-owned server in Finland that was allegedly used to breach a system in Greece.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Had this been an actual attack, they would have modified the code in those buckets to contain malware and watch as it was incorporated in different software builds around the internet. This is basically the SolarWinds attack, but much more extensive. But there’s a second dimension to this attack.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 3, 2025

The CIA triad has evolved with the Internet. the Internet of today. For example, the 5G communications revolution isn’t just about faster access to videos; it’s about Internet-connected things talking to other Internet-connected things without our intervention. The first iteration of the Web—Web 1.0

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The device information shared, combined with the user’s Internet address and data gathered from mobile advertising companies , could be used to deanonymize users of the DeepSeek iOS app, NowSecure warned. “Since this protection is disabled, the app can (and does) send unencrypted data over the internet.”

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Krebs on Security

MAY 14, 2025

.” Two other zero-days patched by Microsoft today also were elevation of privilege flaws: CVE-2025-32709 , which concerns afd.sys, the Windows Ancillary Function Driver that enables Windows applications to connect to the Internet; and CVE-2025-30400 , a weakness in the Desktop Window Manager (DWM) library for Windows.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Cyber threat analysts at Silent Push said they recently received reports from a partner organization that identified an aggressive scanning effort against their website using an Internet address previously associated with a campaign by FIN7 , a notorious Russia-based hacking group.

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Zero Day

MAY 12, 2025

With over 52 million daily active users and over 100,000 active communities, Reddit is a primary source of news, entertainment, and advice. Can it endure in the AI era?

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Welcome to the security nightmare that is the Internet of Things. CISA wants everyone—and government agencies in particular—to remove or upgrade an Ivanti Cloud Service Appliance (CSA) that is no longer being supported.

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The Hacker News

MAY 9, 2025

authorities has dismantled a criminal proxy network that's powered by thousands of infected Internet of Things (IoT) and end-of-life (EoL) devices, enlisting them into a botnet for providing anonymity to malicious actors. A joint law enforcement operation undertaken by Dutch and U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

“This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to inject arbitrary shell commands through crafted HTTP GET requests, affecting over 61,000 devices on the Internet.” The experts observed roughly 1,100 Internet-facing devices potentially vulnerable to this issue., .” reads the post published by Netsecfish.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2024

Malicious hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Versa Director , a software product used by many Internet and IT service providers. Researchers believe the activity is linked to Volt Typhoon , a Chinese cyber espionage group focused on infiltrating critical U.S. In a security advisory published Aug. victims and one non-U.S.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 30, 2025

It’s a folk belief, all over the Internet but with no actual research behind it—like the five-second rule when you drop food on the floor. It presumes people have the cognitive tools to understand the myriad potential attacks and figure out which one of the thousands of Internet actions they take is harmful.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

However, when improperly configured or left exposed to the internet, HMIs become prime targets for cyberattacks. According to Casey Ellis, Founder and Advisor at Bugcrowd, safety-critical control systems like HMIs "should never be on the Internet." Exposing HMI systems to the Internet can have serious consequences," Raju explains.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

For a more detailed breakdown of today’s patches from Microsoft, check out the SANS Internet Storm Center’s list. Any one of these bugs could be used to install malware if an authenticated user connects to a malicious or hacked SQL database server.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 6, 2025

Related: Why crypto-agility is a must have Sinha While the web-based PKI systemgoverned by browsers and certificate authoritieshas served the public internet well, its limitations are becoming evident in tightly regulated, high-assurance environments like banking. LW: Why does the financial sector need a new PKI standard?

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

” The SANS Internet Storm Center has a handy list of all the Microsoft patches released today, indexed by severity. .” “This trademark linguistic ducking and weaving may be Microsofts way of saying ‘if we told you any more, wed give the game away,'” Barnett said.

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The Hacker News

MAY 28, 2025

Embedded Linux-based Internet of Things (IoT) devices have become the target of a new botnet dubbed PumaBot. Rather than scanning the internet, the malware retrieves a list of targets from a command-and-control (C2) server

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Zero Day

MAY 16, 2025

The Aurzen Zip Tri-Fold projector has the potential to define 'ultra portability' among projectors, so long as it works on these aspects.

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WIRED Threat Level

MAY 13, 2025

Before a crackdown by Telegram, Xinbi Guarantee grew into one of the internets biggest markets for Chinese-speaking crypto scammers and money laundering. And all registered to a US address.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 29, 2024

Remember that talk was given in 1982, less than a year before the ARPANET switched to TCP/IP and the internet went operational. (Note that there are two parts.) It’s a wonderful talk: funny, engaging, wise, prescient. She was a remarkable person.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2025

The threat intelligence firm uncovered a stealth campaign on March 18, 2025, where attackers gained persistent access to thousands of internet-exposed ASUS routers. ” states GreyNoise. ” reads the report published by GreyNoise.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

In particular, we recommend that you ensure that access to the management interface is possible only from trusted internal IPs and not from the Internet. In particular, we recommend that you immediately ensure that access to the management interface is possible only from trusted internal IPs and not from the Internet. 173.239.218[.]251

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 22, 2025

The MotW is an attribute added to files by Windows when they have been sourced from an untrusted location, like the internet or a restricted zone. Always be careful when opening archived files that you downloaded from the internet. 7-Zip added support for MotW in June 2022.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 25, 2025

Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. Follow along as the road to RSAC 2025 continues. Acohido Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist Byron V.

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Webroot

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

VPN servers: Usually located all over the world, VPN servers act as intermediaries between your device and the internet and maintain your privacy by masking your IP address and location. Kill switch: Blocks your device’s internet access if the VPN connection drops. This way, the VPN app makes sure you’re always protected.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 25, 2024

Friday’s massive internet outage, caused by a mid-sized tech company called CrowdStrike, disrupted major airlines, hospitals, and banks. The catastrophe is yet another reminder of how brittle global internet infrastructure is. Compare the internet with ecological systems. Nearly 7,000 flights were canceled.

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