Researchers have linked the Android-based Popa botnet, which has compromised millions of TV boxes for advertising fraud and data scraping over four years, to NetNut, a residential proxy provider owned by the publicly-traded Israeli firm Alarum Technologies Ltd.
Researchers have linked the Android-based Popa botnet, which has compromised millions of TV boxes for advertising fraud and data scraping over four years, to NetNut, a residential proxy provider owned by the publicly-traded Israeli firm Alarum Technologies Ltd.
Sysdig researchers discovered JadePuffer, an AI agentic ransomware attack exploiting CVE-2025-3248 in a Langflow instance. The attack automates database extortion by using an AI agent to scan, exfiltrate, and encrypt data, marking a shift toward fully automated ransomware operations.
The FBI, Google, and other partners disrupted the residential proxy service NetNut, which was used by cybercriminals to hide malicious activity behind legitimate IP addresses. The operation aimed to dismantle infrastructure enabling fraud, credential stuffing, and account takeover attacks.
Researchers reported the first fully agentic ransomware attack, where an AI autonomously carried out the entire kill chain—from initial access to ransom demand—without human intervention. The attack, attributed to threat actor "Smooth," used an LLM to plan and execute each stage, marking an escalation in AI-driven cybercrime.
Google and the FBI have dismantled a botnet of 2 million devices operated by the residential proxy service NetNut. The takedown involved cracking NetNut's infrastructure, which was used to route malicious traffic through compromised home routers and IoT devices without owners' knowledge.
Startup Koi Security is suing Palo Alto Networks' Koi Security unit, alleging an AI-hallucinated report falsely linked it to Chinese espionage, causing reputational and financial damage.
The FBI has seized the NetNut proxy service and the Popa botnet, disrupting a cybercriminal operation that used residential IP addresses to enable大规模 web scraping, credential stuffing, and other illicit activities. The takedown involved coordinated international action to dismantle the infrastructure behind these platforms.
The FBI has seized hundreds of domains linked to NetNut, a residential proxy service owned by Israeli firm Alarum Technologies, following an investigation connecting NetNut to the Popa botnet—a network of at least two million compromised devices.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told lawmakers that open-source AI development is following a "dangerous path," expressing concerns about the risks posed by freely available AI models.
Researchers have linked the Android-based Popa botnet, which has compromised millions of TV boxes for advertising fraud and data scraping over four years, to NetNut, a residential proxy provider owned by the publicly-traded Israeli firm Alarum Technologies Ltd.