Ravie LakshmananApr 17, 2026DDoS / Cybercrime An international law enforcement operation has taken down 53 domains and arrested four people in connection with commercial distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) operations that were used by more than 75,000 cybercriminals. The ongoing effort, dubbed Operation PowerOFF, disrupted access to the DDoS-for-hire services, took down the technical infrastructure supporting them, and obtained access to databases containing over 3 million criminal user accounts. Authorities are also sending warning emails and letters to the identified criminal users, and 25 search warrants have been issued. As many as 21 countries participated in the action: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil,…
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A Raspberry Pi looks like the perfect NAS starter kit when you’re just starting out. It’s small, quiet, cheap to run, and backed by a community that has turned the little board into just about everything. I had drives, I had spare time, and I had the kind of optimism that usually shows up right before a project gets weird. On paper, it felt like an easy win. I was building around the Raspberry Pi’s limits and pretending that counted as progress. For a while, it even seemed like one. I could share files, move media around, and enjoy the…
Authorities around the world seized more than 50 websites associated with DDoS “booter” services.
Google is tightening security across its ads ecosystem, requiring multi-factor authentication (MFA) for API users — a move that could impact how developers and advertisers access and manage accounts. Driving the news. Google will begin rolling out mandatory MFA for the Google Ads API starting April 21, with full enforcement expected over the following weeks. The update applies to users generating new OAuth 2.0 refresh tokens through standard authentication workflows. What’s changing. Users will now need to verify their identity with a second factor — such as a phone or authenticator app — in addition to their password when authenticating.…
Having an extra set of eyes monitoring your home never hurts, which is why video doorbells and security cameras are becoming more popular, especially since they’re affordable and easy to set up. We’ve reviewed a few options from Ring over the past few years and found most of them to be pretty good. With that said, we’re now seeing the Ring Video Doorbell come in at a price of just $14, which makes it the perfect time to pick one up. This promotion comes from Woot, and to be warned, it is for a refurbished model. However, the discount is…
The Payouts King ransomware is using the QEMU emulator as a reverse SSH backdoor to run hidden virtual machines on compromised systems and bypass endpoint security. QEMU is an open-source CPU emulator and system virtualization tool that allows users to run operating systems on a host computer as virtual machines (VMs). Since security solutions on the host cannot scan inside the VMs, attackers can use them to execute payloads, store malicious files, and create covert remote access tunnels over SSH. For these reasons, QEMU has been abused in past operations from multiple threat actors, including the 3AM ransomware group, LoudMiner…
In a dramatic middle-of-the-night stand off, a bipartisan set of lawmakers pushing for true reform and privacy protections for Americans bought us some more time to fight! They are holding out for, at a minimum, the requirement of an actual probable cause warrant for FBI access to information collected under the mass spying program known as 702. A reauthorization with virtually no changes was defeated because a core group of lawmakers held strong; they know that people are hungry for real reform that protects the privacy of our communications. We now have a 10-day extension to continue to push Congress to…
Rita El Khoury / Android AuthorityTL;DR Android Canary 2604 launched for the Google Pixel 8 series and newer this week, but users of older Pixels were left waiting. Google confirmed Android Canary 2604 is now available for the Pixel 6 series, Pixel 7 series, Pixel Fold, and Pixel Tablet as of today. The latest Android Canary build adds a few user-facing changes, though it’s highly experimental and shouldn’t be installed on primary devices. Google released April’s experimental Android Canary build earlier this week, but only for select devices. The initial rollout of Android Canary 2604 (ZP11.260320.007) only included OTA images…
Johannes Ullrich, dean of research at the SANS Institute, called this particular problem uncommon, although he acknowledged flash memory space in IoT devices like access points is limited and may fill up from time to time. “But,” he added, “there is a bigger issue: A competent [vendor] vulnerability management program must always include verification that the patch was indeed applied as expected. There are many reasons why a patch may not be applied correctly, and this is just one way a patch may fail to apply.” Kellman Meghu, CTO of incident response firm DeepCove Cybersecurity, said overflowing a fixed device’s…
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles plans to sound out Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei about the artificial intelligence company’s new Mythos model, which has attracted attention from the federal government for how it could transform national security and the economy. A White House official, who requested anonymity to discuss the planned meeting Friday, said the administration is engaging with advanced AI labs about their models and the security of software. The official stressed that any new technology that might be used by the federal government would require a technical period for evaluation. The meeting comes after tensions have run…