Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)
Generated: 2026-02-28 07:00 PST
- Who is the Kimwolf Botmaster “Dort”?
KrebsOnSecurity • 2026-02-28 04:01 • krebsonsecurity.com
In early January 2026, KrebsOnSecurity revealed how a security researcher disclosed a vulnerability that was used to assemble Kimwolf, the world’s largest and most disruptive botnet. Since then, the person in control of Kimwolf — who goes by the handle “Dort” — has coordinated a barrage of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), doxing and email flooding attacks against the researcher and this author, and more recently caused a SWAT team to be sent to the researcher’s home. This post examines what is knowable about Dort based on public information.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/02/who-is-the-kimwolf-botmaster-dort/ - Thousands of Public Google Cloud API Keys Exposed with Gemini Access After API Enablement
The Hacker News • 2026-02-28 01:56 • thehackernews.com
New research has found that Google Cloud API keys, typically designated as project identifiers for billing purposes, could be abused to authenticate to sensitive Gemini endpoints and access private data.
The findings come from Truffle Security, which discovered nearly 3,000 Google API keys (identified by the prefix “AIza”) embedded in client-side code to provide Google-related services like
https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/thousands-of-public-google-cloud-api.html
Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.
