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Dutch police disrupts botnet composed of 17 million devices

The Dutch National Police and the country’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) have taken offline 200 servers controlling a botnet of 17 million devices, the law enforcement agency announced on Thursday. The investigation was launched after the NCSC received a report by a security researcher, and showed that the botnet consisted of at least 17 million infected devices – computers, mobile phones, IoT devices, routers, etc. – and that the 200 servers used to host … More → The post Dutch police disrupts botnet composed of 17 million devices appeared first on Help Net Security.
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New infostealer reaches enterprise devices through FortiClient EMS vulnerability

Attackers are delivering a broad-spectrum infostealer to enterprise computers by exploiting a known vulnerability (CVE-2026-35616) in FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (EMS). “The [malicious] payload was presented as a Fortinet endpoint update and executed through FortiClient-managed VPN scripting workflows,” Arctic Wold researchers noted. About CVE-2026-35616 CVE-2026-35616 is an improper access control vulnerability vulnerability in FortiClient EMS, a centralized management platform through which IT admins deploy, configure, and monitor FortiClient endpoint security software across all devices in … More → The post New infostealer reaches enterprise devices through FortiClient EMS vulnerability appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Websites can spy on user activity by analyzing SSD behavior

Websites have spent years collecting information about visitors through browser fingerprinting, tracking scripts, and other techniques designed to identify devices and monitor behavior. Researchers have demonstrated another method that relies on something most users would never expect a website to observe: activity on their SSD (Solid-State Drive), the storage device where applications and files are stored. Dubbed FROST, short for Fingerprinting Remotely using OPFS-based SSD Timing, the technique allows a website to infer information about … More → The post Websites can spy on user activity by analyzing SSD behavior appeared first on Help Net Security.
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