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Kimwolf Botnet Hijacks 1.8 Million Android TVs, Launches Large-Scale DDoS Attacks

A new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet known as Kimwolf has enlisted a massive army of no less than 1.8 million infected devices comprising Android-based TVs, set-top boxes, and tablets, and may be associated with another botnet known as AISURU, according to findings from QiAnXin XLab.

“Kimwolf is a botnet compiled using the NDK [Native Development Kit],” the company said in a report published today. “In addition to typical DDoS attack capabilities, it integrates proxy forwarding, reverse shell, and file management functions.”

The hyper-scale botnet is estimated to have issued 1.7 billion DDoS attack commands within a three-day period between November 19 and 22, 2025, around the same time one of its command-and-control (C2) domains – 14emeliaterracewestroxburyma02132[.]su – came first in Cloudflare’s list of top 100 domains, briefly even surpassing Google.

France arrests suspect tied to cyberattack on Interior Ministry

French authorities arrested a 22-year-old suspect on Tuesday for a cyberattack that targeted France’s Ministry of the Interior earlier this month.

In a statement issued by Public Prosecutor Laure Beccuau, officials said the suspected hacker was arrested on December 17, 2025, as part of an investigation into the attack.

“A person was arrested on December 17, 2025, as part of the investigation opened by the cybercrime unit of the Paris public prosecutor’s office, on charges including unauthorized access to an automated personal data processing system implemented by the State, committed by an organized group, following the cyberattack against the Ministry of the Interior,” reads the statement translated into English.

Amazon: Ongoing cryptomining campaign uses hacked AWS accounts

Amazon’s AWS GuardDuty security team is warning of an ongoing crypto-mining campaign that targets its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Elastic Container Service (ECS) using compromised credentials for Identity and Access Management (IAM).

The operation started on November 2nd and employed a persistence mechanism that extended mining operations and hindered incident responders.

The threat actor used a Docker Hub image that was created at the end of October and had more than 100,000 pulls.

The Hidden Risk in Virtualization: Why Hypervisors are a Ransomware Magnet

Ransomware groups are targeting hypervisors to maximize impact, allowing a single breach to encrypt dozens of virtual machines at once. Drawing on real-world incident data, Huntress explains how attackers exploit visibility gaps at the hypervisor layer and outlines steps orgs can take to harden virtualization infrastructure.

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