Botnet of more than 17 million devices dismantled
2026-06-01T08:51:47Z•86f92f8101985e888f9ad3f77d7bc149fceec1d4c77f7a81638b5bbfba56f02b
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What happened
Ars Technica's recent security coverage highlights a wave of high-impact incidents: a 17-million-device botnet tied to a Russia-based residential-proxy operation; multiple large-scale supply-chain attacks and malicious packages (TeamPCP spree, Daemon Tools backdoor, element-data credential exfiltration, and attacks targeting Checkmarx/Bitwarden); a critical vulnerability named “BadHost” in the widely used Starlette package that imperils AI agents; Google publishing exploit code for Chromium; a zero-day that reportedly defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker protections; CopyFail and other severe,
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