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The U.S. Justice Department joined authorities in Canada and Germany in dismantling the online infrastructure behind four highly disruptive botnets that compromised more than three million hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as routers and web cameras. The feds say the four botnets -- named Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid and Mossad -- are responsible for a series of recent record-smashing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks capable of knocking nearly any target offline.

Hastalamuerte leaks The Gentlemen RaaS ops: FortiGate exploits, BYOVD evasion, Qilin split tactics

Mobile banking malware targets over 1200 financial apps globally, shifting fraud to user devices

The UK’s financial regulator has issued new rules to make incident and third-party reporting clearer

Notorious ransomware group Interlock has been exploiting a Cisco zero-day bug since January, AWS says

35% of security leaders working in the UK’s critical infrastructure said regulatory requirements are the primary influence on their security programs

In episode 459 of Smashing Security, we dive into a chillingly clever account takeover attempt targeting WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg - involving MFA fatigue, real Apple alerts, a convincing support call, and a phishing page that oh-so-nearly worked. If a famous techie could have this happen to you, can you be sure you're immune? Plus: would you donate your lifetime medical history to science if you were promised anonymity? We unpack serious concerns around UK Biobank, where “de-identified” data may not be as anonymous as you think — and how surprisingly little information it takes to reveal everything. And! Human-powered “AI”, and a punishment worse than prison: eight hours on the RSA expo floor... All this, and much more, in episode 459 of the "Smashing Security" podcast with cybersecurity veteran Graham Cluley, and special guest Paul Ducklin.

CVE-2026-3888 Ubuntu snap flaw lets local users escalate to root via timing-based exploit

ShieldGuard Chrome extension posed as a crypto security tool but stole wallets and drained user data

Rapid7 says median time from publication to CISA KEV inclusion dropped to five days

The Vidar 2.0 infostealers is deployed through fake free game cheats on GitHub and Reddit

Gartner has urged security teams to get involved in AI projects from the start to avoid costly incident response

Android’s LSPosed-based attack hijacks payment apps via runtime manipulation and SIM-binding bypass

CursorJack shows how malicious MCP deeplinks in Cursor IDE can trigger user-approved code execution

Armis reveals that “mutually assured disruption” is no longer preventing state-backed attacks

Akamai says 87% of organizations suffered an API-related security incident last year

The US Cyber Monitoring Center should be operational in 2027, said the UK CMC leadership

Drivers in the Russian city of Perm have been enjoying an unexpected bonus this week: free parking. Not because the city council suddenly decided to embrace generosity - but rather because hackers succeeded in knocking the city's payment system offline. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

Some of these campaigns are linked to Darcula, a Chinese-language phishing-as-a-service platform

CrackArmor AppArmor flaws let local Linux users gain root, break containers and enable DoS attacks