The Ballista botnet has compromised over 6000 TP-Link Archer AX-21 routers through a high-severity remote code execution flaw, according to The Hacker News. The botnet, thought to be operated by an Italy-based threat actor, has been targeting manufacturing, technology, and healthcare organizations primarily in the US, Mexico, China, and Australia, deploying malware to facilitate various attacks.
AI Chatbot DeepSeek R1 Can Be Manipulated to Create Malware
Tenable Research has revealed that open-source AI chatbot DeepSeek R1 can be manipulated to generate keyloggers and ransomware. Initially refusing to write malicious code, researchers
