A sprawling academic cheating network turbocharged by Google Ads that has generated nearly $25 million in revenue has curious ties to a Kremlin-connected oligarch whose Russian university builds drones for

Continue ReadingDrones to Diplomas: How Russia’s Largest Private University is Linked to a $25M Essay Mill

China-based phishing groups blamed for non-stop scam SMS messages about a supposed wayward package or unpaid toll fee are promoting a new offering, just in time for the holiday shopping

Continue ReadingSMS Phishers Pivot to Points, Taxes, Fake Retailers

A prolific cybercriminal group that calls itself “Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters” has dominated headlines this year by regularly stealing data from and publicly mass extorting dozens of major corporations. But the

Continue ReadingMeet Rey, the Admin of ‘Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters’

On the surface, the Superbox media streaming devices for sale at retailers like BestBuy and Walmart may seem like a steal: They offer unlimited access to more than 2,200 pay-per-view

Continue ReadingIs Your Android TV Streaming Box Part of a Botnet?

In March 2024, Mozilla said it was winding down its collaboration with Onerep — an identity protection service offered with the Firefox web browser that promises to remove users from

Continue ReadingMozilla Says It’s Finally Done With Two-Faced Onerep

An intermittent outage at Cloudflare on Tuesday briefly knocked many of the Internet’s top destinations offline. Some affected Cloudflare customers were able to pivot away from the platform temporarily so

Continue ReadingThe Cloudflare Outage May Be a Security Roadmap

Microsoft this week pushed security updates to fix more than 60 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including at least one zero-day bug that is already being

Continue ReadingMicrosoft Patch Tuesday, November 2025 Edition

Google is suing more than two dozen unnamed individuals allegedly involved in peddling a popular China-based mobile phishing service that helps scammers impersonate hundreds of trusted brands, blast out text

Continue ReadingGoogle Sues to Disrupt Chinese SMS Phishing Triad

The U.S. government is reportedly preparing to ban the sale of wireless routers and other networking gear from TP-Link Systems, a tech company that currently enjoys an estimated 50% market

Continue ReadingDrilling Down on Uncle Sam’s Proposed TP-Link Ban

For the past week, domains associated with the massive Aisuru botnet have repeatedly usurped Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft in Cloudflare’s public ranking of the most frequently requested websites. Cloudflare

Continue ReadingCloudflare Scrubs Aisuru Botnet from Top Domains List