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9,000 Asus routers compromised by botnet attack and persistent SSH backdoor that even firmware updates can't fix
New botnet campaign exploits legitimate system features to establish deep persistence while remaining virtually undetectable
Flaw in Asus DriverHub makes utility vulnerable to remote code execution
DriverHub is automatically installed on many Asus motherboards, laptops and desktop PCs. But thankfully, the vulnerability has already been patched.
Microsoft makes passkeys the default authentication method for all new accounts
Microsoft says that passkeys reduce password use by 20% and wants to remove password use altogether.
Crosswalks in Silicon Valley hacked to play satirical messages from Musk and Zuckerberg sound-a-likes
A number of Silicon Valley crosswalks were hacked to sound like U.S. big-tech broligarchs, according to reports published by local media this weekend.
Akira ransomware can be cracked with 16 RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours — new counterattack breaks encryption
Tinyhack publishes a full how-to guide on brute-forcing past the Akira ransomware's encryption attack and freeing captive files.
Apartment complexes broken into with phone in minutes
A wide list of apartment complexes using IoT-connected intercoms still use the default logins from their manuals, making them easily accessible by bad actors.
FBI identifies North Korea as source of $1.5 billion ByBit hack
The FBI has traced the ByBit crypto exchange hack to a group of North Korean hackers.
CS2 fans targeted by Streamjackers — viewers shown fishy links, QR codes
Cybercriminals are targeting the CS2 community with streamjacking scams. Innocents have been lured into sharing Steam credentials, and paying into crypto-doubling scams.
