Prosecutors charge man who allegedly used botnet to take down X this spring

An Oregon man has been charged in a federal complaint today on allegations of operating a botnet for hire that conducted cyberattacks beginning at least in 2021. Ethan Foltz has been accused of runnin [...]

SpaceXAI's Grok Bot turns agents into persistent digital coworkers that can operate your apps for $120-per-month

SpaceXAI, the division of SpaceX formerly known as xAI, is launching an early beta version of Grok Bot, a new agent designed to move AI assistants beyond answering prompts and toward continuously exec [...]

Security researchers aren't buying Musk's spin on the cyberattack that took down X

One day after X went down for hours, security researchers are throwing cold water on Elon Musk’s public comments about who might be behind the DDoS attack. On Monday, as X was still struggling to re [...]

Hacker used Anthropic's Claude chatbot to attack multiple government agencies in Mexico

Here's yet another troubling story about this "golden" era of AI. A hacker has exploited Anthropic's Claude chatbot to carry out attacks against Mexican government agencies, accord [...]

Google is suing the BadBox 2.0 botnet group

Google has filed a lawsuit against the operators of a what is believed to be the largest smart TV botnet in the world — BadBox 2.0. <br /> The company said in its complaint that this China-ba [...]

Pro-Russian hacker group claims responsibility for DDoS attack on French postal service

A pro-Russian hacker group has come forward as the perpetrator of a DDoS attack on the French national postal service La Poste that took place on December 22, according to Reuters. The distributed den [...]

"Hackers can now launch massive 2Tbps attacks": Report reveals staggering 10x growth in botnet size with record-breaking DDoS incidents peaking for 40 minutes as multi-vector attacks grow in complexity and become harder to dismantle

Largest botnet grows tenfold in a year as sustained 2Tbps attack signals growing scale of modern DDoS campaigns. [...]

Mastodon was hit by a 'major' DDoS attack that briefly took down parts of the service

Mastodon seems to be recovering after a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that took down its primary mastodon.social instance. As TechCrunch notes, the platform began reporting issues early [...]

A Chinese state-linked botnet has grown to 1,500 hacked routers and is mapping vulnerable targets within hours of disclosure

A covert botnet linked to Chinese state-sponsored hackers has more than doubled in size and is now scanning for newly disclosed vulnerabilities within hours of publication. The JDY botnet comprises ov [...]