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Dogged Russia-based botnet dismantled after 23-year run

Law enforcement, CrowdStrike and Shadowserver dismantled the 23-year-old Sality P2P botnet that infected more than 11 million devices.

Sality, a Russia-based peer-to-peer botnet active for 23 years and infecting over 11 million devices, was dismantled by law enforcement working with CrowdStrike and the Shadowserver Foundation. CrowdStrike poisoned the botnet's peer list so infected machines permanently disappeared from the operator's view, while domains were seized in a coordinated effort involving the FBI, Justice Department, Europol and authorities from Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. The financially motivated operation enabled cryptocurrency theft, DDoS attacks and other cyberattacks, and Europol said the effort dates back to 2017; the operators were not named.

CyberScoop · 14d agoMalware

Unit 42 warns AI has shifted balance of power from defenders to attackers

Unit 42 says agentic AI has shifted attacker advantage, investigating an incident where one attacker exploited 50 enterprise applications in under 10 hours.

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 leaders said early waves of agentic AI-enabled attacks are breaking in the wild and that frontier model capabilities have shifted the balance of power from defenders to attackers. The team is actively investigating an attack on a customer where an attacker used an agentic framework to exploit 50 applications and other weaknesses across the enterprise in less than 10 hours, work they estimate would have taken at least 10 days pre-AI. Unit 42 says AI already touches the entire attack chain, including malware development, social engineering, and ransomware negotiations. The warning follows April's Project Glasswing initiative formed with Anthropic around its Mythos model.

CyberScoop · 20d agoAI safety & security in the wild1

Chinese espionage groups swarm to exploit triple-link chain of zero-days

At least four China-aligned espionage groups chained three zero-days in Chromium browsers and Windows ALPC for espionage since late August.

Proofpoint observed at least four state-aligned threat groups, starting with TA412/Violet Typhoon/APT31 on August 28, chaining three zero-days in the 'BlueMoon' exploit chain targeting Chrome, Chromium-based browsers and Microsoft Windows. The chain includes RCE flaws in Chromium's JavaScript engine (CVE-2026-85046, CVE-2026-87491) and a Windows Advanced Local Procedure Call privilege-escalation zero-day (CVE-2026-85880), enabling sandbox code execution, sandbox escape and system privileges. APT31 delivered the chain via phishing links to NGOs, mining and commodity trading firms in the US, installing a browser extension disguised as Google Gemini to surveil activity and steal credentials. Other groups (UNK_LateNight, UNK_DoubleCheck, UNK_QuietRacket) targeted US aerospace, Vietnamese manufacturing, and Indonesian and Singaporean organizations; fewer than 20 victims were directly observed but the true count is likely higher.

CyberScoop · 7d agoExploit / PoC in the wild 3 sourcesCVE-2026-85046CVE-2026-87491CVE-2026-858802· 1 read