New Botnet ‘Loader-as-a-Service’ Turns Home Routers and IoT into Mirai Farms

CloudSEK has uncovered a sophisticated Loader-as-a-Service botnet campaign spanning the last six months, leveraging exposed command-and-control logs to orchestrate attacks against SOHO routers, embedded Linux devices, and enterprise applications. The threat actors exploit unsanitized POST parameters—such as NTP, syslog, and…

Researchers Map Links Between Major Hacker Groups: LAPSUS$, Scattered Spider, ShinyHunters

A loosely connected cybercrime supergroup is exploiting social engineering to compromise Fortune 100 organizations and government agencies. LAPSUS$, Scattered Spider, and ShinyHunters—three of the most notorious English-speaking cybercrime groups—have increasingly blurred their lines through shared tactics, overlapping membership, and joint…