Midnight Mimosa, a widespread Android malware campaign, is turning inexpensive smartphones into advertising fraud engines and potential residential proxy nodes by embedding malicious apps in device firmware before purchase. Bitdefender observed thousands of infected devices across more than 150 countries over approximately two years, exposing a persistent compromise that ordinary application removal cannot resolve. The […]

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Experiments show cheap TV boxes can run capable AI models, and small models may soon be able to spread across such devices on their own.

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The FBI and DOJ disrupted a global botnet used by QTFY to compromise IoT devices and conceal attacks against US government agencies and critical infrastructure.

Cybercriminals used to hacking home routers and security cameras have found another Internet-connected device to add to their botnets: your car, according to research published by Kaspersky Lab.

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Google announced that it helped take down NetNut, a 2 million strong malicious residential proxy network. The incident highlights the growing risks posed by residential proxy networks that quietly conscript consumer devices into services used by cybercriminals and nation-state actors alike.

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