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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

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ReversingLabs

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

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ReversingLabs

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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ReversingLabs

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

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Krebs

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

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ReversingLabs

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

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ReversingLabs

Why the Tools You Already Own Won’t Make You PQC-Ready

Key takeawaysSource scanners, SBOMs, certificate managers, network monitors, and vendor questionnaires each answer a different question, and none of them inspects the cryptography inside the software you actually run.The gap is the final software artifact: compiled binaries, packages, and COTS products where no source, manifest, or vendor disclosure exists.Binary analysis fills that gap and can produce a CBOM that ties each cryptographic asset to the component containing it.You don’t need PQC su

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Krebs

Feds Suspect Ransom Negotiator Ran ShinyHunters Extortion Site

U.S. federal investigators pursuing theShinyHuntershacking group that recently stole highly sensitive data from theFBIhave identified executives at two different ransomware negotiation firms who maintained unusually close relations with the extortion group, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Sources close to the investigation say one of the executives in the United States even helped ShinyHunters operate a website that pressured victims into paying a ransom.Hackers aligned with ShinyHunters have claim

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