Google, Partners Disrupt 1.3 Million-Device-Strong XCPE Botnet
2026-11-04T20:51:32Z•e1c5d4fba2e8f4afb4dfaa558e59cc3a3236cbe6e17fd1fd88381ca6c5389ef3
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What happened
Dark Reading roundup covering major cybersecurity developments, including the disruption of a 1.3 million-device XCPE botnet, government data theft, ransomware and social-engineering campaigns, supply-chain compromises, AI-assisted exploitation and prompt injection, LLMjacking, credential theft, cyberespionage, and attacks against healthcare, IoT, ICS, cloud, and developer environments.
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