NCSC exposes Chinese company running malicious Mirai botnet

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and its counterpart Five Eyes agencies have accused a China-based company acting as a front for the state of running a massive botnet comprising over 250,000 internet-connected devices, about 8,500 of them located in the UK. The compromised devices include enterprise network and security tools such as routers … Read more

Europol provides detail on Ghost encrypted comms platform takedown

A Europol official says the pan-European law enforcement agency is now the “go-to place” for international police investigations into the use of encryption services by criminal networks, following the takedown of the Ghost encrypted communications platform. A three-year international police investigation into the end-to-end encrypted messaging service Ghost has culminated in police raiding and arresting … Read more