17 million strong botnet of compromised devices dismantled by Dutch authorities

Dutch NCSC and police dismantled a 17M‑device botnet by taking down 200 servers Asocks, previously tied to free Android VPN ...

Botnet of more than 17 million devices dismantled

Authorities in the Netherlands said they dismantled a botnet that comprised more than 17 million devices and were managed by ...
Gizmodo

How a Well-Regarded Mac App Became a Trojan Horse

NightOwl was supposed to make Macs work in dark mode. After a recent update, one developer discovered it was siphoning users’ data through a botnet. Reading time 7 minutes In the early days of macOS ...
Network World

Removing botnet apps from a PC; Running both Windows 98 and XP

* Dr. Internet columnist Steve Blass offers advice on how to remove botnet apps from a PC * Help Desk columnist Ron Nutter offers advice on how to run Windows 98 and XP on the same disk * Removing ...
Android Authority

Google targets cybercriminals behind massive Android malware scheme

Google is suing the creators of BadBox 2.0, a botnet that infected 10 million off-brand Android devices. The malware often came pre-installed on cheap streaming boxes, tablets, and projectors, mostly ...
Dark Reading

macOS Malware Campaign Showcases Novel Delivery Technique

Security researchers have sounded the alarm on a new cyberattack campaign using cracked copies of popular software products to distribute a backdoor to macOS users. What makes the campaign different ...
Ars Technica

PSA: Silent takeover of "Nightowl" app, now botnet adware

I haven't used any 3rd party time-of-day colorshift/style shift software in a long time, ever since Apple built that into the OS, and previous to that used Flux. But I had a friend who was still using ...