Telecommunications company Lumen successfully disrupted hundreds of command-and-control servers for the massive and resilient ...

Cheap Android TV boxes have quietly become one of the most dangerous devices on the home network, not because of what you watch on them but because of what they might be doing in the background.

Security researchers warn Android TV streaming boxes promising free channels may secretly hijack home internet connections for proxy networks and criminal activity.

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Kimwolf grew rapidly in the waning months of 2025 by tricking various “residential proxy” services into relaying malicious commands to devices on the local networks of those proxy endpoints.

A new report out today from Fortinet Inc.’s FortiGuard Labs details the activities of two different botnets observed through October and November that are being spread through vulnerabilities in ...

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GoBruteforcer botnet fueled by server deployments with weak credentials and legacy web is targeting cryptocurrency and blockchain projects.

The GoBruteforcer botnet is exploiting weak passwords on exposed servers to hunt crypto wallets and expand a growing malware network.

GoBruteforcer malware uses weak passwords and exposed services to build a botnet targeting crypto projects, Linux servers, and databases.