Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)
Generated: 2026-03-20 03:00 PDT
- Musician admits to $10M streaming royalty fraud using AI bots
BleepingComputer • 2026-03-20 02:33 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
North Carolina musician Michael Smith has pleaded guilty to collecting over $10 million in royalty payments through a massive streaming royalty fraud scheme on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and YouTube Music. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/musician-pleads-guilty-to-10m-streaming-fraud-powered-by-ai-bots/ - GSocket Backdoor Delivered Through Bash Script, (Fri, Mar 20th)
SANS ISC Diary (full) • 2026-03-20 01:40 • isc.sans.eduYesterday, I discovered a malicious Bash script that installs a GSocket backdoor on the victim's computer. I don't know the source of the script not how it is delivered to the victim.
- International joint action disrupts world’s largest DDoS botnets
BleepingComputer • 2026-03-20 01:05 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
Authorities from the United States, Germany, and Canada have taken down Command and Control (C2) infrastructure used by the Aisuru, KimWolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets to infect Internet of Things (IoT) devices. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/aisuru-kimwolf-jackskid-and-mossad-botnets-disrupted-in-joint-action/ - Microsoft: March Windows updates break Teams, OneDrive sign-ins
BleepingComputer • 2026-03-20 00:33 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
Microsoft says the March Windows 11 update breaks sign-ins with Microsoft accounts across multiple Microsoft apps, including Teams and OneDrive. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/kb5079473-march-windows-11-update-breaks-microsoft-account-sign-ins/ - Ex-data analyst stole company data in $2.5M extortion scheme
BleepingComputer • 2026-03-19 23:57 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
A North Carolina man was found guilty of extorting a D.C.-based technology company while still being employed as a data analyst contractor. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/data-analyst-found-guilty-of-extorting-brightly-software-of-25-million/ - DoJ Disrupts 3 Million-Device IoT Botnets Behind Record 31.4 Tbps Global DDoS Attacks
The Hacker News • 2026-03-19 23:25 • thehackernews.com
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday announced the disruption of command-and-control (C2) infrastructure used by several Internet of Things (IoT) botnets like AISURU, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad as part of a court-authorized law enforcement operation.
The effort also saw authorities from Canada and Germany targeting the operators behind these botnets, with a number of private
https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/doj-disrupts-3-million-device-iot.html - Apple Warns Older iPhones Vulnerable to Coruna, DarkSword Exploit Kit Attacks
The Hacker News • 2026-03-19 22:16 • thehackernews.com
Apple is urging users who are still running an outdated version of iOS to update their iPhones to secure against web-based attacks carried out via powerful exploit kits like Coruna and DarkSword.
These attacks employ malicious web content to target out-of-date versions of iOS, triggering an infection chain that leads to the theft of sensitive data.
“For example, if you’re using an older
https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/apple-warns-older-iphones-vulnerable-to.html
Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.
