Top AI tools such as OpenClaw and GitHub Copilot can be hijacked to create new massive botnets

Researchers find nine of the most popular AI platforms are susceptible to a new attack that exploits hallucinations to set up ...

Google Gemini CLI abused as a hacking agent, malware botnet operator

A Russian-speaking threat actor known as "bandcampro" used Google's open-source Gemini CLI AI tool as a hacking agent and to ...
thearabianpost

Routers deepen APT28’s espionage reach

Russian military-linked hackers tracked as APT28 have shifted cyber operations into compromised internet routers, using the MooBot botnet and vulnerable edge devices to harvest credentials, route ...
Opinion
Free Software FoundationOpinion

How the FSF sysadmins block botnets with reaction

I have written about the FSF facing DDoS attacks several times, including on doing our part to clean up the internet and on Uptime Kuma, as well as "Defending Savannah from DDoS attacks". But I ...
Security Boulevard

Microsoft’s ‘New Approach’ to Fighting Malware Nabs Amadey, StealC Infrastructure

Microsoft, in cooperation with international law enforcement and a number of cybersecurity firms, shut down the infrastructure that was shared by two information-stealing operations, using what the IT ...
Techopedia

SpaceX’s Starlink Feuds With Pentagon Over Pricing Ahead of IPO | This Week in IT

Suswati Basu is a multilingual, award-winning editor. She was shortlisted for the Guardian Mary Stott Prize and longlisted for the Guardian International Development Journalism Award.… According to ...
cybermagazine

CrowdStrike Dismantles Developer-Targeting Glassworm Botnet

In a combined operation with Google and the Shadowserver Foundation, cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike successfully dismantled Glassworm - a sophisticated global botnet Google, Shadowserver Foundation ...
Computer Weekly

Glassworm botnet that targeted OS devs smashed to pieces

The Glassworm botnet that weaponised trusted developer tools and turned them on the open source community to poison hundreds of GitHub repositories with malicious code has been knocked out in a ...
SecurityWeek

GlassWorm Botnet Disrupted

Security firms took down all four command-and-control (C&C) channels used by the GlassWorm malware. The GlassWorm botnet that has been targeting the open source software ecosystem for over six months ...
The Indian Express

Who is TeamPCP, the rising hacker group targeting open-source software and AI tools?

Code hosting platform GitHub disclosed that it suffered a data breach last week as part of a software supply chain attack carried out by hackers. The attack was traced back to a GitHub developer, who ...
Microsoft

Kazuar: Anatomy of a nation-state botnet

Kazuar, a sophisticated malware family attributed to the Russian state actor Secret Blizzard, has been under constant development for years and continues to evolve in support of espionage-focused ...