The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one’s television into an always-on residential proxy

Continue ReadingLG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps

Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant

Continue ReadingMicrosoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a postmortem on a recent data leak in which a contractor published dozens of internal CISA credentials — including AWS Govcloud

Continue ReadingLessons Learned from CISA’s Recent GitHub Leak

A cybersecurity startup dangling millions of dollars to acquire zero-day security vulnerabilities in popular software is run by a pair of far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons whose most recent

Continue ReadingFelons, Fraudsters Flog Offensive Cybersecurity Startup

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded

Continue ReadingFBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet

Two men pleaded guilty in the United Kingdom this week to criminal charges stemming from an August 2024 cyberattack that crippled Transport for London, the entity responsible for the public

Continue ReadingScattered Spider Hackers Plead Guilty on Day 1 of Trial

For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay Internet traffic linked to advertising fraud, account takeovers, and mass

Continue Reading‘Popa’ Botnet Linked to Publicly-Traded Israeli Firm

A cybercrime group known as The Gentlemen has emerged as the second most active ransomware gang by victim count, rapidly attracting a talented pool of hackers through an aggressive recruitment

Continue ReadingWho Runs the Ransomware Group ‘The Gentlemen?’

The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after

Continue ReadingHackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts