A global network of about 13,000 hijacked Mikrotik routers has been employed as a botnet to propagate malware via spam campaigns, the latest addition to a list of botnets powered by MikroTik devices.
The activity “take[s] advantage of misconfigured DNS records to pass email protection techniques,” Infoblox security researcher David Brunsdon said in a technical report published last week. “This

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A former analyst working for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) pleaded guilty to transmitting top secret National Defense Information (NDI) to individuals who did not have the necessary authorization to receive it and attempted to cover up the activity.
Asif William Rahman, 34, of Vienna, was an employee of the CIA since 2016 and had a Top Secret security clearance with access to

Security experts discovered a new set of tunnel protocol vulnerabilities that could expose millions of devices to a broad range of cyberattacks.

Tunneling packets used to hijack internet hosts

According to the research, the issue revolves around internet hosts that fail to verify the sender’s identity when handling tunneling packets.

This paves the way for host takeovers, which could allow attackers to breach vulnerable networks and weaponize the hosts for anonymized attacks.

The study, by

CERT-UA warned of scammers impersonating the agency, using fake AnyDesk requests to conduct fraudulent security audits. The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) warned of cyber scams involving threat actors impersonating the agency by sending fraudulent AnyDesk connection requests under the guise of security audits. CERT-UA pointed out that it uses the software AnyDesk […]