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A newly documented Linux botnet named SSHStalker is using the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) communication protocol for command-and-control (C2) operations. The protocol was invented in 1988, and its ...

Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

Hackers are increasingly exploiting newly disclosed vulnerabilities in third-party software to gain initial access to cloud environments, with the window for attacks shrinking from weeks to just days.

For the past week, the massive “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet known as Kimwolf has been disrupting The Invisible Internet Project (I2P), a decentralized, encrypted communications network designed ...

In early January 2026, KrebsOnSecurity revealed how a security researcher disclosed a vulnerability that was used to assemble Kimwolf, the world’s largest and most disruptive botnet. Since then, the ...

A newly discovered botnet is compromising poorly-protected Linux servers by brute-forcing weak SSH password login authentication. Researchers at Canada-based Flare Systems, who discovered the botnet, ...

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Start by thinking about the dilemmas your people will face. by Erin Meyer At the beginning of my career, I worked for the health-care-software specialist HBOC. One day, a woman from human resources ...