IoT

New botnet infects 200K devices using blockchain to dodge law enforcement

A fast-evolving IoT botnet called Dysphoria has infected an estimated 200,000 devices worldwide, using blockchain-based domain systems to hide its command-and-control infrastructure from law enforcement and security researchers, according to findings published by QiAnXin XLab on July 27.

IoT botnet built with LLM help shipped with AI’s safety disclaimers intact

Cybersecurity researchers at Palo Alto Networks have disclosed a previously undocumented IoT botnet framework called TuxBot v3 Evolution that was built with heavy assistance from a large language model — and shipped with the LLM's safety disclaimer still embedded in…