Felons, Fraudsters Flog Offensive Cybersecurity Startup
2026-07-09T07:23:27Z•0360cc6cff7e0696faf27b9ba7237e1687e8d3bde578370f95d7d7fe18db1c1d
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What happened
Multiple high-impact cybersecurity developments: the FBI seized hundreds of domains tied to NetNut and disrupted the Popa Android-based botnet (linked to Alarum Technologies), which researchers say abused millions of consumer devices as residential proxies for ad fraud, account takeovers and data scraping. Microsoft released a record ~200 fixes in June Patch Tuesday (nearly three dozen rated critical and public exploit code reported for at least three flaws). Separately, attackers abused Meta’s AI support assistant to hijack Instagram accounts, a CISA contractor accidentally published AWS Gov‑
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- 2026-07-09T07:23:27Z
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