Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

The U.S. Justice Department joined authorities in Canada and Germany in dismantling the online infrastructure behind four highly disruptive botnets that compromised more than three million hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as routers and web cameras. The feds say the four botnets -- named Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid and Mossad -- are responsible for a series of recent record-smashing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks capable of knocking nearly any target offline.

Cybersecurity Agency Says 'No Operational Impact'The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency apparently had a good reason to urge federal agencies into resetting vulnerable Ivanti VPN devices: Hackers breached two gateways used by CISA, forcing the agency to yank them offline. The agency "immediately took offline" the impacted VPNs.

The U.S. government on Tuesday announced the court-authorized disruption of a global network compromised by an advanced malware strain known as Snake wielded by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB)