Study Identifies 20 Most Vulnerable Connected Devices of 2025

Routers are the riskiest devices in enterprise networks as they contain the most critical vulnerabilities, a new Forescout report shows.

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PlayPraetor Reloaded: CTM360 Uncovers a Play Masquerading Party

Overview of the PlayPraetor Masquerading Party Variants
CTM360 has now identified a much larger extent of the ongoing Play Praetor campaign. What started with 6000+ URLs of a very specific banking attack has now grown to 16,000+ with multiple variants. This research is ongoing, and much more is expected to be discovered in the coming days. 
As before, all the newly discovered play

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Europol Arrests Five SmokeLoader Clients Linked by Seized Database Evidence

Law enforcement authorities have announced that they tracked down the customers of the SmokeLoader malware and detained at least five individuals.
“In a coordinated series of actions, customers of the Smokeloader pay-per-install botnet, operated by the actor known as ‘Superstar,’ faced consequences such as arrests, house searches, arrest warrants or ‘knock and talks,'” Europol said in a

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Nissan Leaf Hacked for Remote Spying, Physical Takeover

Researchers find vulnerabilities that can be exploited to remotely take control of a Nissan Leaf’s functions, including physical controls.

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Operations of Sensor Giant Sensata Disrupted by Ransomware Attack

Sensata has informed the SEC that shipping, manufacturing and other operations have been impacted by a ransomware attack.

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‘AkiraBot’ Spammed 80,000 Websites With AI-Generated Messages

CAPTCHA-evading Python framework AkiraBot has spammed over 80,000 websites with AI-generated spam messages.

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AkiraBot Targets 420,000 Sites with OpenAI-Generated Spam, Bypassing CAPTCHA Protections

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an artificial intelligence (AI) powered platform called AkiraBot that’s used to spam website chats, comment sections, and contact forms to promote dubious search engine optimization (SEO) services such as Akira and ServicewrapGO.
“AkiraBot has targeted more than 400,000 websites and successfully spammed at least 80,000 websites since September

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Industrial tech manufacturer Sensata says ransomware attack is impacting production

Sensata Technologies, a U.S.-based manufacturer or industrial technologies with operations in about a dozen countries, told federal regulators that a recent ransomware attack disrupted key systems.

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Hacker Claims WooCommerce Data Breach, Selling 4m User Records

A hacker using the alias “Satanic” claims a WooCommerce data breach via a third party, selling data on…

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Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Fixes 134 Vulnerabilities, Including 1 Zero-Day

One CVE was used against “a small number of targets.” Windows 10 users needed to wait a little bit for their patches.

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