When you procure an inexpensive, unbranded Android TV box, connect it to your television, and relegate it to the periphery of your attention for years, you may unwittingly be harboring a silent sentinel. Within...
More than two million infected devices worldwide—this is the scale of the new botnet known as Kimwolf, according to an assessment published by Synthient. The countries reporting the highest number of infections include Vietnam,...
Commercial robots have proved far less secure than many assume. Security researchers are increasingly demonstrating that certain machines can be taken over in a matter of minutes, and that flaws in software logic can...
The Kimwolf botnet has drawn intense scrutiny after researchers at QiAnXin XLab reported that it had infected more than 1.8 million Android-based devices. The compromised army includes smart TVs, set-top boxes, and tablets, all...
A security researcher has demonstrated how a “booby-trapped” e-book can turn an ordinary Kindle into a gateway to a user’s Amazon account—granting access to payment details and even enabling one-click purchases. Valentino Ricotta crafted...
Many of us have installed an app “just once”—simply to breeze through registration, dismiss pop-ups, and finally reach the button we need. But when it comes to gadgets controlled via a smartphone, such haste...
For over a year, programmer Harishankar Narayanan had been using his iLife A11 robot vacuum without incident—until he noticed that the device was constantly transmitting data to servers in China. When he attempted to...
Researchers have identified a large-scale wave of attacks orchestrated by the RondoDox botnet, which employs the so-called “exploit shotgun” technique—literally “firing at everything that moves.” This method involves automatically testing dozens of exploits in...
Smart devices within a network are no longer mere assistants — they are potential adversaries. With every internet-connected thermostat or television, a new fissure emerges in the digital infrastructure. This truth is underscored by...
At the inaugural DistrictCon Junkyard competition, analysts from Trail of Bits vividly demonstrated the grave risks posed by outdated networking devices left without updates. During the event, they remotely compromised two discontinued products—the Netgear...
A newly emerged botnet known as hpingbot, identified by the NSFOCUS Fuying Lab‘s global threat monitoring system, has rapidly become one of the most prominent cyber threats since its appearance in early June 2025....
At the international Botconf conference held in May 2025 in Angers, France, experts from NICT CSRI unveiled the findings of their three-year investigation into the RapperBot malware. Their conclusions were alarming: this evolved variant...
