Survey: 94% of Incidents Involve Anonymized Infrastructure. Teams Are Still Reactive

Security teams have never had more IP data at their disposal. Every day, analysts ingest enrichment feeds, geolocation data, reputation scores, telemetry, and threat intelligence from a growing ecosystem of vendors and platforms. Yet despite this abundance of information, many organizations...

Free Apps Are Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI

A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how, with the user's consent, it can turn devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit nodes that relay web-scraping traffic for a data business Bright Data markets heavily to the AI...

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...

SLH Offers $500–$1,000 Per Call to Recruit Women for IT Help Desk Vishing Attacks

The notorious cybercrime collective known as Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters SLH has been observed offering financial incentives to recruit women to pull off social engineering attacks. The idea is to hire them for voice phishing campaigns targeting IT help desks, Dataminr said in a new threat brief. T...

PT-2026-5910

GreyNoise сообщает о детектировании скоординированной разведывательной кампании, нацеленной на инфраструктуру Citrix NetScaler, в которой задействовались десятки тысяч резидентных прокси-серверов для выявления панелей авторизации. Активность наблюдалась в период с 28 января по 2 февраля и также...

Kimwolf Botnet Lurking in Corporate, Govt. Networks

A new Internet-of-Things IoT botnet called Kimwolf has spread to more than 2 million devices, forcing infected systems to participate in massive distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks and to relay other malicious and abusive Internet traffic. Kimwolf's ability to scan the local networks of...

Who Benefited from the Aisuru and Kimwolf Botnets?

Our first story of 2026 revealed how a destructive new botnet called Kimwolf has infected more than two million devices by mass-compromising a vast number of unofficial Android TV streaming boxes. Today, we'll dig through digital clues left behind by the hackers, network operators and services th...

Kimwolf Android Botnet Infects Over 2 Million Devices via Exposed ADB and Proxy Networks

The botnet known as Kimwolf has infected more than 2 million Android devices by tunneling through residential proxy networks, according to findings from Synthient. "Key actors involved in the Kimwolf botnet are observed monetizing the botnet through app installs, selling residential proxy...

The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network

The story you are reading is a series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide security advisory. The vulnerability at issue has been exploited for months already, and it's time for a broader awareness of the threat. The short version is that everything you thought you knew about...

Aisuru Botnet Shifts from DDoS to Residential Proxies

Aisuru , the botnet responsible for a series of record-smashing distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks this year, recently was overhauled to support a more low-key, lucrative and sustainable business: Renting hundreds of thousands of infected Internet of Things IoT devices to proxy services...

DSLRoot, Proxies, and the Threat of ‘Legal Botnets’

The cybersecurity community on Reddit responded in disbelief this month when a self-described Air National Guard member with top secret security clearance began questioning the arrangement they'd made with company called DSLRoot , which was paying $250 a month to plug a pair of laptops into the...

GeoServer Exploits, PolarEdge, and Gayfemboy Push Cybercrime Beyond Traditional Botnets

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to multiple campaigns that are taking advantage of known security vulnerabilities and exposed Redis servers to various malicious activities, including leveraging the compromised devices as IoT botnets, residential proxies, or cryptocurrency mining...

U.S. Dismantles World's Largest 911 S5 Botnet with 19 Million Infected Devices

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Wednesday said it dismantled what it described as "likely the world's largest botnet ever," which consisted of an army of 19 million infected devices that was leased to other threat actors to commit a wide array of offenses. The botnet, which has a global...

Okta Warns of Unprecedented Surge in Proxy-Driven Credential Stuffing Attacks

Identity and access management IAM services provider Okta has warned of a spike in the "frequency and scale" of credential stuffing attacks aimed at online services. These unprecedented attacks, observed over the last month, are said to be facilitated by "the broad availability of residential pro...

Access Limitless Global Content: How Residential Proxies Enable It

By Uzair Amir Residential proxies bypass geo-restrictions, unlocking global content & websites. Enjoy unrestricted browsing, enhanced privacy, and a world of opportunity for business and personal use. Explore residential proxies today! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Acce...

Malicious Apps Caught Secretly Turning Android Phones into Proxies for Cybercriminals

Several malicious Android apps that turn mobile devices running the operating system into residential proxies RESIPs for other threat actors have been observed on the Google Play Store. The findings come from HUMAN's Satori Threat Intelligence team, which said the cluster of VPN apps came fitted...

Exploring the Differences Between Residential Proxies and VPNs: Which is Right for You?

By Uzair Amir VPN or Residential Proxies: Which is best? Let's explore without diving into technical details. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Exploring the Differences Between Residential Proxies and VPNs: Which is Right for You?...

Five Eyes Agencies Expose APT29's Evolving Cloud Attack Tactics

Cybersecurity and intelligence agencies from the Five Eyes nations have released a joint advisory detailing the evolving tactics of the Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT29. The hacking outfit, also known as BlueBravo, Cloaked Ursa, Cozy Bear, Midnight Blizzard formerly Nobelium, a...

PEACHPIT: Massive Ad Fraud Botnet Powered by Millions of Hacked Android and iOS

An ad fraud botnet dubbed PEACHPIT leveraged an army of hundreds of thousands of Android and iOS devices to generate illicit profits for the threat actors behind the scheme. The botnet is part of a larger China-based operation codenamed BADBOX, which also entails selling off-brand mobile and...

Microsoft Warns of Widescale Credential Stealing Attacks by Russian Hackers

Microsoft has disclosed that it's detected a spike in credential-stealing attacks conducted by the Russian state-affiliated hacker group known as Midnight Blizzard. The intrusions, which make use of residential proxy services to obfuscate the source IP address of the attacks, target governments, ...