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Canada’s Spy Agency Used First-of-Its-Kind Warrant to Clean Botnet-Infected Devices

Canada’s Spy Agency Used First-of-Its-Kind Warrant to Clean Botnet-Infected Devices

Canada’s spy service got a judge’s permission to reach into infected servers, home routers, and IoT gear sitting on Canadian soil and neutralize two foreign-run botnets. The Federal Court released a public version of the ruling… 

AryStinger Malware Infects 4,300 Legacy Routers to Build Reconnaissance Proxy Network

AryStinger Malware Infects 4,300 Legacy Routers to Build Reconnaissance Proxy Network

Swati KhandelwalJun 22, 2026IoT Security / Vulnerability A new malware family is turning forgotten home routers into a distributed reconnaissance and proxy network, not the DDoS botnet these devices usually end up in. QiAnXin’s XLab calls it… 

INTERPOL Warns Phishing, Ransomware, and AI Scams Are Rising Across Asia-Pacific

INTERPOL Warns Phishing, Ransomware, and AI Scams Are Rising Across Asia-Pacific

Ravie LakshmananJun 22, 2026Cybercrime / Artificial Intelligence A new report from INTERPOL has revealed a “dramatic increase” in cybercrime in Asia and the South Pacific, fueled by rapid digitalization, internet penetration, new technologies, organized criminal… 

Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’

Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’

Asked about the privacy implications of chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude, Signal President Meredith Whittaker answered, “These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.” Whittaker made those comments…