Coverage tagged "Botnet".
Google alleges that Android device manufacturer Videostrong ran the operation, which infected set-top boxes and IoT devices with a backdoor to create infrastructure for criminal activity.
The overwhelming majority of the infected devices in the X.CPE botnet are Android TV set-top boxes, Google said, adding that they observed a number of other infected Android-based IoT devices…
Google's Threat Intelligence Group says it has shut down a massive botnet called x.cpe. At its height, x.cpe ran on more than 1.3 million Android TV devices, and unusually, these were…
Videostrong planted a backdoor in more than 1.3 million Android set-top boxes and sold criminals access to the resulting botnet.
Google dismantled a 1.3 million-device botnet allegedly built by Android TV box maker Videostrong to enable ad fraud and proxy abuse. Google and its partners dismantled a backdoor called XCPE that…
Google and partners have taken down the XCPE botnet attributed to Chinese device maker Videostrong
The botnet was created and operated for financial gain by Android OEM/ODM Videostrong Technology.
Google said today it worked with industry partners to dismantle a botnet made up of more than 1.3 million Android TV set-top boxes that ship with malicious software which secretly rents the user’s…
Google and an assortment of partners shut down a botnet that an approved Android device manufacturer purposefully deployed across more than 1.3 million TV set-top boxes, the company said Monday…
Google and industry partners have dismantled the XCPE malware botnet consisting of more than 1.3 million Android TV streaming TV boxes that Google says its manufacturer intentionally infected with…
Some attacks this week didn't need much of a trick. A fake support call, a trusted extension, a shared link, or a device with no password. Small things that people barely think about.
Google shut down the servers behind XCPE, a backdoor hidden in the firmware of Android TV set-top boxes. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group attributes the operation with high confidence to…
A botnet of more than 1.3 million Android devices, mostly TV set-top boxes, lost control of its servers in late October in a takedown led by Google. Google says it is highly confident that device…
Introduction Last week, Google and industry partners dismantled the XCPE backdoor which enrolled more than 1.3 million set-top boxes into a botnet. We assess with high confidence that the backdoor…
Welcome to the 26th edition of Cloudflare's DDoS Threat Report. This edition covers the third quarter of 2026 — July, August, and September — and returns the series to its quarterly cadence following…
Volt Typhoon used disposable relay chains to hide zero-day attacks on critical systems. Lumen linked Silent Train to at least four zero-days. Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs has spent three years tracking a…
Volt Typhoon, a China-government backed hacking group that has infiltrated America’s critical infrastructure networks for years, has consistently built and dismantled ephemeral malicious…
arXiv:2610.31844v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Protocol reverse engineering (PRE) is essential for understanding undocumented or proprietary communication formats, enabling security-critical tasks…
Between November 2025 and March 2026, the Dutch security firm Eye Security pushed more than 2 million updates to computers it did not own to switch off a background updater that it said could have…
Researchers tie PHP2Shell attempts to a Mirai botnet and show an ASLR bypass, but no successful compromise has been confirmed yet.
