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Google has dismantled x.cpe, a botnet running on more than 1.3 million certified Android TV boxes. The devices, mostly sold under the MECOOL brand, shipped with a backdoor that installed malware after setup.
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Google has dismantled x.cpe, a botnet running on more than 1.3 million certified Android TV boxes. The devices, mostly sold under the MECOOL brand, shipped with a backdoor that installed malware after setup.

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Binance says North Korean hackers spent months posing as recruiters on LinkedIn, tricking an engineer into downloading malware to pull off a record $6.3 billion crypto heist.

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Google says manufacturer Videostrong intentionally built a backdoor into 1.3 million certified Android TV boxes, turning them into a botnet. It has now cut ties with the company.

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Anthropic confirmed a tampered Claude Code extension was published on Cursor's marketplace by a malicious actor, affecting up to 5,000 users before it was pulled.

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Cisco Talos researchers uncovered Volta-Autodoxer, a self-deleting infostealer that uses commercial LLMs to rank stolen credentials by how much the victim is worth.

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A compromised release of Zod, the TypeScript validation library used in thousands of projects, has developers auditing their dependencies. Here is what we know so far.