Stylized 3D illustration for an early-2000s article in the Dutch PC-Active magazine, about a mobile phone virus. This was before smartphones were introduced. 🙂
Stylized 3D illustration for a 2001 article in the Dutch PC-Active magazine, about the Code Red worm, which was the first large-scale, mixed-threat attack to successfully target enterprise networks.
Reported 5 malicious #Python packages to #PyPI: numberpy, tqmmd, pandans, openpyexl, reqwestss all by the same user leemay1782.
All with the same "functionality", getting commands via a socket from dzgi0h7on1jhzdg0vknw9pp9309rxjl8.oastify[.]com and executing it.
I don't think I saw the setup.py entry_points being used as a trigger mechanism before?
Mystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour span:
An unknown threat actor with equally unknown motives forces ISP to replace routers.
One day last October, subscribers to an ISP known as Windstream began flooding message boards with reports their routers had suddenly stopped working and remained unresponsive to reboots and all other attempts to revive them.