Gizmodo

How a Well-Regarded Mac App Became a Trojan Horse

NightOwl was supposed to make Macs work in dark mode. After a recent update, one developer discovered it was siphoning users’ data through a botnet. Reading time 7 minutes In the early days of macOS ...

17 million strong botnet of compromised devices dismantled by Dutch authorities

Dutch NCSC and police dismantled a 17M‑device botnet by taking down 200 servers Asocks, previously tied to free Android VPN ...

Botnet of more than 17 million devices dismantled

Authorities in the Netherlands said they dismantled a botnet that comprised more than 17 million devices and were managed by ...
Android Authority

Google targets cybercriminals behind massive Android malware scheme

Google is suing the creators of BadBox 2.0, a botnet that infected 10 million off-brand Android devices. The malware often came pre-installed on cheap streaming boxes, tablets, and projectors, mostly ...
Ars Technica

PSA: Silent takeover of "Nightowl" app, now botnet adware

I haven't used any 3rd party time-of-day colorshift/style shift software in a long time, ever since Apple built that into the OS, and previous to that used Flux. But I had a friend who was still using ...
Network World

Removing botnet apps from a PC

I fear that my PC has been infected with botnet software. None of my spyware detection or anti-virus software detects anything, but my computer has slowed to a crawl and often runs at close to 100% ...
Dark Reading

macOS Malware Campaign Showcases Novel Delivery Technique

Security researchers have sounded the alarm on a new cyberattack campaign using cracked copies of popular software products to distribute a backdoor to macOS users. What makes the campaign different ...