14,000 routers are infected by malware that’s highly resistant to takedowns

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 ...
Bleeping Computer

New KadNap botnet hijacks ASUS routers to fuel cybercrime proxy network

A newly discovered botnet malware called KadNap is targeting ASUS routers and other edge networking devices to turn them into proxies for malicious traffic. Since August 2025, KadNap has grown to ...
trojanswire.usatoday

7 were charged over Snapchat hacking, sexting. First guilty plea filed

Seven defendants were indicted in federal court in Erie in July 2023 in a Snapchat hacking and sexting conspiracy that victimized at least 33 users. Westmoreland County resident Michael Yackovich ...
CRN

AI Let ‘Unsophisticated’ Hacker Breach 600 Fortinet Firewalls, AWS Says, As AI Lowers ‘The Barrier’ For Threat Actors

Hackers use AI, GenAI and LLMs to breach Fortinet FortiGate firewalls as cybersecurity and threat actors leverage AI for cyber-attacks, AWS report finds.
IEEE

Design and Implementation of A WiFi Password Cracking Tool Based on the Evil Twin Method

Abstract: In the current technological era, along with the increasingly rapid development of the times, there are many changes in wireless technology, and there are more and more data theft processes ...
TechCrunch

DOJ says Trenchant boss sold exploits to Russian broker capable of accessing ‘millions of computers and devices’

The former boss of a U.S. maker of hacking and surveillance tools stole and sold technology that can hack millions of computers and people worldwide, U.S. prosecutors have confirmed for the first time ...
InfoWorld

Python is slipping in popularity – Tiobe

Python still holds the top ranking in the monthly Tiobe index of programming language popularity, leading by more than 10 percentage points over second-place C. But Python’s popularity actually has ...