Telcom firm leaves port open on customer routers after maintenance update exposing hundreds of customers to possible attack.

An IDN homograph attack leveraging Adobe’s brand has been discovered, with the malicious site spreading the Betabot backdoor

As recently as Wednesday afternoon, a U.S. government website was hosting a malicious JavaScript downloader that led victims to installations of Cerber ransomware. The malware link has since been taken down.

The disclosure and recent analysis of thousands of leaked telnet credentials paints a bleak picture of the state of IoT security.

A list of device IPs and credentials has gone viral since Thursday, kicking off an effort by researchers to notify the owners of these connected devices before they’re hacked.