June 23, 2025

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FBI and Dutch police seize botnet of hacked routers

A joint international law enforcement action shut down two services accused of providing a botnet of hacked internet-connected devices, including routers, to cybercriminals. U.S. prosecutors also indicted four people accused of hacking into the devices and running the botnet.  On Wednesday, the websites of Anyproxy and 5Socks were replaced with notices stating they had been

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Notorious image board 4chan hacked and internal data leaked

Notorious internet forum 4chan was hacked on Tuesday.  At the time of writing, 4chan’s website was not loading, and users on social media reported the site being intermittently down for hours.  Messages on a rival message board, which TechCrunch has seen, celebrated the hack, with one person claiming that the hacker responsible for the breach

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