Months after police seized its servers and arrested an alleged operator, the Kimwolf botnet is running code that disguises attacks as Chrome traffic and fetches its orders from the Ethereum blockchain.
Jacob Butler, a 23-year-old from Ottawa, awaits extradition to the United States and faces up to 10 years in prison.
As fake identity fraud is projected to cause $40 billion in losses next year, leaders must abandon static security in favor of rapid-iteration, AI-enabled defenses that adapt in days, not months.
Intrusion Logging marks the first feature from a major device vendor to aid with forensic detection of sophisticated threats, Amnesty International said.
Access Now, Lookout and SMEX joined research forces to find a campaign involving suspected Indian government-connected group Bitter, ProSpy spyware and more.
Cybersecurity researchers say the GitHub leak threatens to “democratize” iPhone exploits that were once reserved for nation-states, potentially putting hundreds of millions of iOS 18 devices at risk.
The Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid and Mossad botnets enabled cybercriminals to initiate thousands of attacks. A crackdown targeting large-scale botnets continues amid growing challenges.
The kit, named DarkSword, has a variety of possible implications, the research from iVerify, Lookout and Google suggests.
The company’s latest security update contains the highest number of Android vulnerabilities patched in a single month since April 2018.
The incidents occurred amid Gaza protests and suggest human rights violations, Citizen Lab said.
