Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Also, More ClickFix Attacks and Teen Booters Arrested in PolandThis week, Russian hackers targeted Signal and WhatsApp users, permit-fee phishing hit U.S. applicants, ClickFix on WordPress sites, Microsoft patched 80 bugs, a 14K-router botnet, Polish teens held over DDoS tools and Finland warned of Russian, Chinese espionage. North Korean IT workers for hire.

This week’s recap shows how small gaps are turning into big entry points. Not always through new exploits, often through tools, add-ons, cloud setups, or workflows that people already trust and rarely question

A critical security flaw in the Sneeit Framework plugin for WordPress is being actively exploited in the wild, per data from Wordfence

A now-patched critical security flaw in the Wazur Server is being exploited by threat actors to drop two different Mirai botnet variants and use them to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks

Persistent Attack Grants Remote SSH Access via ExploitSomeone - possibly nation-state hackers - appears to be constructing a botnet from thousands of Asus routers in hacking that survives a firmware patch and reboots. Nearly 9,000 routers have been compromised and the number is growing, say researchers.

Samsung has released software updates to address a critical security flaw in MagicINFO 9 Server that has been actively exploited in the wild

The Corona Mirai-based malware botnet is spreading through a 5-year-old remote code execution (RCE) zero-day in AVTECH IP cameras, which have been discontinued for years and will not receive a patch. [...]

Kaspersky Says It Spotted QakBot Operators Exploiting the Flaw in AprilMicrosoft issued a patch Tuesday for a Windows zero-day vulnerability that security researchers say operators of the QakBot botnet and other hackers actively exploited. The elevation of privilege vulnerability flaw is rated "important" on the CVSS scale.

Attackers Exploit Old Flaw, Hijack TP-Link Archer RoutersHalf a dozen different botnets are prowling the internet for TP-Link-brand Wi-Fi routers unpatched since last summer with the goal of commandeering them into joining distributed denial-of-service attacks. Chinese router manufacture TP-Link in June patched a command injection vulnerability.

Also: A Romanian Botnet and Alcohol Counselor Monument Settles with US FTC Over AdsThis week, Sisense supply chain attack, a likely Romanian botnet, Patch Tuesday, an Apple spyware warning and AT&T notifies customers of breach. Alcohol counselor Monument shared data with Meta, a breach of Home Depot employee data, a breach at Targus and a threat actor targeted Moroccan activists.

Everyone knows to patch vulnerabilities for Internet-facing assets, but what about internal ones? One botnet is counting on your complacency.

Infecting networks via years-old CVEs that should have been patched by now Crooks are exploiting years-old vulnerabilities to deploy Androxgh0st malware and build a cloud-credential stealing botnet, according to the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).…

Thousands of devices, including D-Link and Zyxel gear, remain vulnerable to takeover despite the availability of patches for the several bugs being exploited by IZ1H9 campaign.

Vulnerability being "widely exploited" in Mirai-based botnet attacks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a recently patched critical security flaw in Zyxel gear to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation

A nascent botnet called Andoryu has been found to exploit a now-patched critical security flaw in the Ruckus Wireless Admin panel to break into vulnerable devices

$4,500 Monero per worker as they slave away while we devotin' full time to floatin' under the patch sea A sneaky botnet dubbed HeadCrab that uses bespoke malware to mine for Monero has infected at least 1,200 Redis servers in the last 18 months.…

Upgraded threat, time to patch The Zerobot botnet, first detected earlier this month, is expanding the types of Internet of Things (IoT) devices it can compromise by going after Apache systems.…

Just more IoT conscripts for the botnet armies Tens of thousands of internet-facing IP cameras made by China-based Hikvision remain unpatched and exploitable despite a fix being issued for a critical security bug nearly a year ago.…

A new variant of an IoT botnet called BotenaGo has emerged in the wild, specifically singling out Lilin security camera DVR devices to infect them with Mirai malware