Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Also: Fortinet Flaws, Aisuru Botnet and Dutch Police Seize Bulletproof Host ServersThis week, the root cause of the Cloudflare outage, active exploitation of Fortinet flaws, Logitech disclosed a data breach, Microsoft headed off a record-breaking botnet attack, Dutch police seized bulletproof hosting servers and Princeton University disclosed a data breach after a phishing attack.

The FBI announced today the disruption of the Qakbot botnet in an international law enforcement operation that not only seized infrastructure but also uninstalled the malware from infected devices. [...]

That should keep the criminals offline for, well, weeks probably Microsoft has announced a months-long effort to take control of 65 domains that the ZLoader criminal botnet gang has been using as command-and-control servers.…

The modular Windows crimeware platform known as TrickBot formally shuttered its infrastructure on Thursday after reports emerged of its imminent retirement amid a lull in its activity for almost two months, marking an end to one of the most persistent malware campaigns in recent years