Google Sues Operators of a 10 Million Device Android Set-Top Box Botnet
In 2023, Google and its cybersecurity partners teamed up with German law enforcement agencies after discovering BadBox, a botnet comprised of 74,000 Android devices infected with malware. After deploying a range of measures to suppress BadBox, a much larger threat quickly arrived. BadBox 2.0 BadBox 2.0 was discovered by HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence and Research team. Their initial report published in March revealed how infected...
Lawsuits Continue to Put U.S. BitTorrent Pirates in a Financial Hurt Locker
Not long after winning the Oscar for Best Picture in 2010, the makers of the war action thriller ‘The Hurt Locker’ set their eyes on their next prize. With a then-novel legal scheme, they planned to sue tens of thousands of Americans, who shared pirated copies of their film via BitTorrent, in a single lawsuit. “We’re creating a revenue stream and monetizing the equivalent of an alternative distribution channel,” lawyer Jeffrey Weaver...
