The men facilitated about $1.28 million in salary from victim U.S. companies by hosting laptop farms and helping remote IT workers assume fake identities.

The maximum-severity vulnerability, which hasn’t been exploited in the wild yet, affects software customers use to manage networking devices.

The Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid and Mossad botnets enabled cybercriminals to initiate thousands of attacks. A crackdown targeting large-scale botnets continues amid growing challenges.

Cisco’s response to the latest SD-WAN and firewall defects has been fast, but the harder question is how long sophisticated actors had a head start — and…

The kit, named DarkSword, has a variety of possible implications, the research from iVerify, Lookout and Google suggests.

It’s been difficult early on to separate signal from noise, even if the attack on the medical device maker looks like a qualified success for the attackers.

The botnet, which compromised routers and IoT devices in 163 countries, claimed about 369,000 victims and $5.8 million from its cybercriminal customers, officials said.

Angelo Martino is accused of playing both sides — committing attacks and conducting ransomware negotiations on some of the same cases on behalf of his former employer.

Researchers said the threat group behind the campaign is associated with ShinyHunters, an outfit that’s previously stolen data from Salesforce instances for extortion attempts.

The vendor said six of the 83 vulnerabilities it addressed this month are more likely to be exploited.