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Several staffers at the White House are using computers or mobile devices equipped with residential proxy services that render their internet address available for others to rent, security experts warned today. One of the proxy services is a Russian company whose founder’s web hosting business was ground zero for cyberattacks against election systems in Arizona and Illinois in 2016.The security firmLayer3 Intelsaid it detected multiple residential proxy nodes beaconing out from the internet addr

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November 4, 2026 admin

Binance heist: what we know, and what RL sees in TraderTraitor’s toolkit

Updated November 4, 2026On October 29, 2026, attackers stole approximately $6.34 billion in digital assets from Binance in one of the largest cryptocurrency thefts on record. Since our initial analysis, two significant developments have clarified how the attack unfolded.On October 31, the FBI formally attributed the theft to North Korea’s TraderTraitor operation. On November 3, Binance released its initial incident findings, revealing a multi-stage compromise involving malicious software deliver

Krebs

November 3, 2026 admin

Tech Firms Dismantle Botnet That Turned 1.3M TV Boxes Into Proxies

Googlesaid today it worked with industry partners to dismantle a botnet made up of more than 1.3 millionAndroidTV set-top boxes that ship with malicious software which secretly rents the user’s Internet connection out to strangers and conducts advertising fraud. Experts involved in the takedown say the action is likely to sever the botnet’s access to more than 10 million additional compromised systems, including other Internet of Things (IoT) products such as Android-based healthcare devices and

ReversingLabs

November 2, 2026 admin

The Sky Is Falling (Again): What PHP2Shell Says About AI, The Disclosure Process, and Security

SummaryLast week, PHP imploded, following the disclosure of the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619.Researchers leveraging AI tools discovered that some dormant vulnerabilities in PHP could be chained together into a functional exploit, which introduced PHP2Shell to the world. This exploit could allow attackers to compromise any sites that use PHP. A fix was rolled out, and chaos ensued. This story echoes what happened earlier this year, with CVE-2026-31431. Also known

ReversingLabs

October 29, 2026 admin

Threat Researcher’s Notebook: How Attackers Redirect Crypto Payments

SummaryCryptocurrency is being used every day to facilitate a variety of transactions. It’s unlike the usual banking systems, having its own unique strengths and weaknesses. Attackers have made specialized malware to redirect normal transactions to wallets they control in order to steal money, referred to as “Clipbankers”. Due to the nature of cryptocurrency, these transactions are irreversible. ReversingLabs investigated two malware families of this nature, digging into how they work. This blog

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October 27, 2026 admin

Researchers Break Into Anthropic’s Systems in Just 12 Hours—Through Third-Party Software

One of the world’s leading AI companies just received an important reminder about cybersecurity: Your security is only as strong as the software you trust. On October 26,The Washington Post reportedthat researchers from cybersecurity startup Cathedral used AI agents to discover pathways into sensitive internal systems at Anthropic, the company behind Claude.The most significant detail wasn’t the sophistication of the AI agents or even the speed of the exercise. The researchers reportedly gained

Krebs

October 21, 2026 admin

Widespread PHP Flaw May Cause Many Site Outages Today

Expect to see quite a few websites serving error pages today: Nearly 70 percent of websites need to update their core software to fix a pair of vulnerabilities that allow an attacker to seize full control over affected servers. Experts say there are working exploits for the flaws, and that these critical bugs are already being exploited in the wild.Image: Shutterstock.com, Sashkin.The flaws at issue are present inPHP, the programming language that powers sites running on a large number of web pu

ReversingLabs

October 21, 2026 admin

Graphalgo campaign moves upstream into infrastructure as code

A malware campaign that was discovered early this year targeting JavaScript and Python developers with cryptocurrency-related fake recruiter tasks has spread to Terraform providers and Go modules, according to research published recently by Aikido.It is the first time the company’s research team has observed malware distributed through Terraform providers. Aikido security researcherOliver Smith wrote in a September postthat the malware overlaps with the Graphalgo npm campaign thatReversingLabs r