AI crawlers and fetchers are blowing up websites, with Meta and OpenAI the worst offenders Summary Fastly’s analysis of traffic seen by its NGWAF and Bot Management services finds AI…
Orange Belgium mega-breach exposes 850K customers to serious fraud Summary A data theft at Orange Belgium in late July exposed records for about 850,000 customer accounts. Attackers gained access to…
US cops wrap up RapperBot, one of world’s biggest DDoS-for-hire rackets Summary RapperBot (aka Eleven Eleven Botnet or CowBot), a Mirai-derived DDoS-for-hire service blamed for hundreds of thousands of attacks,…
Apple rushes out fix for active zero-day in iOS and macOS Summary Apple has released emergency updates to plug an actively exploited zero-day in its ImageIO framework, tracked as CVE-2025-43300.…
Oregon Man Accused of Operating One of Most Powerful Attack ‘Botnets’ Ever Seen Summary A 22-year-old from Eugene, Oregon, identified as Ethan Foltz, has been charged with running Rapper Bot,…
China Isolates Itself From Worldwide Web For Over an Hour Summary A complete shutdown of encrypted web traffic isolated China from the global internet for 74 minutes on 20–21 August…
Intuit Claims Security Concerns In Dropping Windows 10 For TurboTax Summary Intuit has told users that TurboTax Desktop will not be compatible with Windows 10 for the 2025 tax year,…
Oregon Man Accused of Operating One of Most Powerful Attack ‘Botnets’ Ever Seen Summary A 22-year-old man from Eugene, Oregon, identified as Ethan Foltz, has been charged over his alleged…
China Isolates Itself From Worldwide Web For Over an Hour Summary China experienced a nationwide disruption of encrypted web traffic that lasted 74 minutes, isolating users from most foreign-hosted websites.…
DARPA: Closing the Open Source Security Gap With AI Summary DARPA’s two-year AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) asked teams to build AI-enabled cyber reasoning systems (CRSes) to find and fix vulnerabilities…
