⚡ Weekly Recap: Proxy Botnets, Browser Ransomware, AI Agent Tricks, Fake PoC Malware and More

A streaming box should not need a threat model. Neither should a username field, a demo repo, a reset flow, or a browser permission prompt. That is the irritating part this week: the risky pieces were ordinary. Home devices became a routing cover. Clean code pulled dirt from a dependency. Identit...

NetNut botnet takes a hit. Don’t be part of the next one.

In a joint operation, Google, the FBI, and other partners have dealt a significant blow to the residential proxy ecosystem by disrupting the NetNut also tracked as Popa botnet. NetNut is a malicious service built on millions of hijacked consumer devices. NetNut marketed itself as a high-quality...

MAL-2026-6754 Malicious code in yt-api-dlp (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector d4710e1aa4fe025aaed51f4958f3b514a6cb950b40069f424c7a5d9a2f85591c Package name yt-api-dlp is a single-token insertion away from the widely-used yt-dlp package, and the tarball contains a near-verbatim copy of the...

FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut , a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alarum TechnologiesNASDAQ: ALAR. The action comes roughly two weeks after...

RustDuck Botnet Rebuilds in Rust to Hijack Routers and Servers for DDoS

A new two-stage malware family called RustDuck is hijacking home routers, IP cameras, Android boxes, and poorly secured servers, then stitching them into a network built to knock websites and online services offline. Researchers at QiAnXin's XLab have tracked it since February 2026, and say the...

Thousands of D-Link routers under control of AryStinger botnet

Researchers have found that the recently discovered AryStinger botnet has quietly hijacked thousands of end‑of‑life D‑Link routers and some network-attached storage NAS devices, turning them into a distributed scanning and proxy network that attackers can use to hide their activity and launch...

‘Popa’ Botnet Linked to Publicly-Traded Israeli Firm

For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay Internet traffic linked to advertising fraud, account takeovers, and mass data-scraping efforts. This week, researchers from multiple security firms concluded that the Popa botn...

LNTest: A Testbed for Evaluating Bitcoin Lightning Network-Based Botnets

Bitcoin's Lightning Network LN can be exploited as a covert, low-cost command-and-control C&C channel for botnets, as demonstrated by the LNBot and D-LNBot designs. However, both remain proof-of-concept prototypes evaluated only through simulation, leaving key questions about real-world topology...

China-Linked JDY Botnet Expands to 1,500+ Devices for Cyber Reconnaissance

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a "resurgence and expansion" of JDY , a covert network associated with China-nexus state-sponsored threat actors. "The JDY botnet comprises over 1,500 SOHO small office and home office and IoT devices and operates as a centrally controlled, high-performanc...

Silent Ransom Group Uses Fast Flux Botnet to Hide Law Firm Leak Sites

Cybersecurity firm Resecurity reports Silent Ransom Group is using a fast flux botnet to hide data leak sites while targeting law firms with theft and vishing...

CVE-2024-45257

A Command Injection issue in the payload build page in BYOB Build Your Own Botnet 2.0 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the server via a crafted build parameter. This occurs in freeze in core/generators.py...

MalTree: Tracing Malware Evolution from Embeddings at Scale

Malware detection remains largely reactive: machine learning models trained on known samples degrade as threats evolve. Understanding evolutionary relationships among malware families can inform proactive defense, but traditional reverse engineering can take months to years to uncover such lineag...

MAL-2026-5151 Malicious code in parsimonius (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 a5ab85a46a37da928774b1885049b71d40d675c54683b13711f4e371d932394a Clone of a legitimate package with an added RAT running through a Telegram bot. It can e.g. exfiltrate env variables and execute remote commands. The malicious...

Dutch Authorities Dismantle Botnet Linked to 17 Million Infected Devices

Dutch authorities have announced the takedown of a botnet that enslaved millions of infected devices, including computers, tablets, smartphones, and IoT devices, to carry out malicious attacks. The bot network, per the Dutch Politie and the National Cyber Security Center NCSC, consisted of at lea...

RondoDox Botnet Exploits Critical 2018 Vulnerability to Hijack ASUS Routers

Cybersecurity firm VulnCheck reveals hackers are using a critical 2018 vulnerability to bypass authentication and hack over a million ASUS routers...

Kimwolf DDoS Botnet Operator Arrested in Canada Over DDoS-for-Hire Attacks

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Thursday announced the arrest of a Canadian man in connection with allegedly operating a distributed denial-of-service DDoS botnet known as Kimwolf. In tandem, Jacob Butler aka Dort, 23, Ottawa, Canada, has been charged with offenses related to the developmen...

Alleged Kimwolf Botmaster ‘Dort’ Arrested, Charged in U.S. and Canada

Canadian authorities on Wednesday arrested a 23-year-old Ottawa man on suspicion of building and operating Kimwolf , a fast spreading Internet-of-Things botnet that enslaved millions of devices for use in a series of massive distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks over the past six months...

Botnet Detection on CTU-13 Using Lightweight Machine Learning Models

Botnets are among the most persistent cyber threats, enabling large-scale attacks such as spam, credential theft, and distributed denial-of-service DDoS. While deep learning approaches have recently been applied to botnet detection, they are computationally intensive and often lack...

Malicious Package

Overview chalk-tempalte is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that includes infostealer malware, one of which is a Shai-Hulud clone following the TeamPCP open source release, and one DDoS botnet package. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid...

Malicious Package

Overview axois-utils is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that includes infostealer malware, one of which is a Shai-Hulud clone following the TeamPCP open source release, and one DDoS botnet package. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid organizatio...