The story you are reading is a series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide security advisory. The vulnerability at issue has been exploited for months already, and it’s time for a ...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a persistent nine-month-long campaign that has targeted Internet of Things (IoT) devices and web applications to enroll them into a botnet known as ...

The RondoDox botnet has been observed exploiting the critical React2Shell flaw (CVE-2025-55182) to infect vulnerable Next.js servers with malware and cryptominers. First documented by Fortinet in July ...

From record-breaking DDoS attacks to millions infected by malicious extensions, this week delivered some of the most alarming cyber incidents of the year. I've been writing and editing stories for ...

Security researchers at Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs have identified a new Mirai-based botnet called ShadowV2 that quietly emerged during the major AWS outage in October, targeting vulnerable IoT ...

When a Cloudflare outage disrupted large numbers of websites and online services yesterday, the company initially thought it was hit by a “hyper-scale” DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack. “I ...

Microsoft Azure Fends Off ‘Largest DDoS Attack Ever Observed in the Cloud’ Your email has been sent Microsoft confirmed that Azure blocked a denial-of-service attack that involved more than 500,000 IP ...

Microsoft says the attack, sourced from more than 500,000 compromised IPs, exposes deep weaknesses in home IoT and raises questions about enterprise DDoS readiness. Azure has blocked its largest DDoS ...

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 ...

A new class of Mirai-based DDoS botnets have been launching massive attacks, but their inability to spoof traffic enables device remediation. An emerging IoT botnet has been observed launching ...

A new botnet is exploiting dozens of known vulnerabilities in hard-to-patch edge devices. "RondoDox" is characteristically unlike most botnets, researchers from Trend Micro said in a report on ...

A new report out today from Darktrace Ltd. reveals a sophisticated cybercrime campaign that blends traditional malware with cloud-native design principles, exposing how threat actors are evolving ...