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A global coalition of law enforcement agencies shut down a botnet made of tens of thousands of hacked home and small business routers on Wednesday. The operation targeted SocksEscort, which offered ...

Researchers say they have uncovered a takedown-resistant botnet of 14,000 routers and other network devices—primarily made by Asus—that have been conscripted into a proxy network that anonymously ...

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GitHub's Octoverse 2025 data shows TypeScript became the most-used language as 80% of new developers adopt Copilot within their first week. TypeScript has dethroned both Python and JavaScript to ...

A newly discovered botnet is compromising poorly-protected Linux servers by brute-forcing weak SSH password login authentication. Researchers at Canada-based Flare Systems, who discovered the botnet, ...

Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has raised the largest-ever seed round for a dev tool startup, according to its lead backer, Felicis. The startup, Entire, has raised $60 million at a $300 million ...

Estimated to have infected 7,000 systems, the botnet uses a mass-compromise pipeline, deploying various scanners and malware. A newly identified Linux botnet is relying on decade-and-a-half-old ...

The cybercriminals in control of Kimwolf — a disruptive botnet that has infected more than 2 million devices — recently shared a screenshot indicating they’d compromised the control panel for Badbox 2 ...

The botnet’s propagation is fueled by the AI-generated server deployments that use weak credentials, and legacy web stacks. An evolved GoBruteforcer botnet variant has been targeting cryptocurrency ...