Felons, Fraudsters Flog Offensive Cybersecurity Startup
2026-07-09T13:23:27Z•37d16a011a14303cf45c71b0a392aeab01c47e9e5807c26b22040be27d2ee36b
Alarum TechnologiesCISA data leakDDoSFBI seizureIoT compromiseKimwolfMeta AI abuseMicrosoft vulnerabilitiesNetNutPatch TuesdayPopaScattered SpiderThe Gentlemenaccount-takeoverbotnetdomain-takedowninfrastructure seizurelaw-enforcement actionsransomwareresidential-proxy
What happened
A series of high-impact cybersecurity incidents and law-enforcement actions: the FBI seized hundreds of domains linked to NetNut and the Popa Android-based residential-proxy botnet that abused millions of devices; researchers tied Popa to publicly traded Alarum Technologies. Multiple botnet operators were arrested or charged (Kimwolf, Popa-related takedowns, Dutch seizures of 800 servers). Attack techniques and threats include account takeover via abuse of Meta’s AI support bot, a record Microsoft Patch Tuesday fixing ~200 vulnerabilities (dozens critical, at least three with public exploit),漏
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- 2026-07-09T13:23:27Z
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