A new Linux kernel bug lets an ordinary, unprivileged user become root. It now hits Android too. Researchers have named it Bad Epoll. The Bad Epoll vulnerability carries the identifier CVE-2026-46242.

Google, the FBI and the IRS Criminal Investigation division disrupted NetNut, a residential proxy network built on two million hijacked devices and used by 316 threat clusters in a single week.

Statement on This Week's DDoS Attacks. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 03, 2026. Yesterday the DDoS attack had gotten worse than before. We tried not to say much about them. The ...

Fedora Linux 45 could come with Shadow Stack enabled by default. If your hardware supports this, you will get extra protection from ROP attacks.

Arystinger Turns Old Routers Into Stealth Proxies Arabian Post. clearfix>AryStinger, a newly analysed botnet family, has compromised more than 4,000 outdated routers and begun turning ageing network ...

AryStinger malware has infected 4,300 Realtek RTL819X routers, using old CVEs to scan targets, tunnel traffic, and hide ...

A previously undocumented malware botnet named AryStinger has compromised more than 4,000 outdated routers to turn them into ...

The clock is ticking for Windows and Linux users to update cryptographic keys that protect their systems against firmware-based UEFI infections, a pernicious form of malware that loads before ...

#define IOCTL_ROOTKIT_INIT (ULONG) CTL_CODE(FILE_DEVICE_ROOTKIT, 0x01, METHOD_BUFFERED, FILE_WRITE_ACCESS) #define IOCTL_ROOTKIT_HIDEME (ULONG) CTL_CODE(FILE_DEVICE ...

Authorities in the Netherlands said they dismantled a botnet that comprised more than 17 million devices and were managed by 200 servers in a joint operation by the police and the National Cyber ...

WSJ’s Robert McMillan breaks down why residential proxy software is so bad, and how to check whether the malware is installed on your home network. Photo: Sean Havey The price might be right, but if ...

The ides of security March are upon us — Qualys reports the discovery by their threat research unit of vulnerabilities in the Linux AppArmor system used by SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, and Kubernetes as an ...