The idea of a fully connected digital world is quickly becoming real through the Internet of Things (IoT). This expanding network includes physical devices such as small sensors, autonomous vehicles, and industrial machines that collect and exchange data online.
Protecting this data from tampering is essential, which has led engineers to explore blockchain as a security solution. Although blockchain is widely known for its role in cryptocurrencies, its core function is as a decentralized digital ledger. Instead of data being controlled by a single organization, information is shared and maintained across many computers.
IPIDEA, one of the largest residential proxy networks used by threat actors, was disrupted earlier this week by Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) in collaboration with industry partners.
The action included taking down domains associated with IPIDEA services, infected device management, proxy traffic routing. Additionally, intelligence has been shared on the IPIDEA software development kits (SDK) that distributed the proxying tool.
The operators of IPIDEA advertised it as a VPN service that “encrypts your online traffic and hides your real IP address,” used by 6.7 million users worldwide.
Microsoft has linked recent reports of Windows 11 boot failures after installing the January 2026 updates to previously failed attempts to install the December 2025 security update, which left systems in an “improper state.”
The boot failures were first reported earlier this month after users installed the January 2026 Patch Tuesday cumulative update, KB5074109, on Windows 11 versions 25H2 and 24H2.
After installing the update, impacted systems failed to start and displayed a BSOD crash screen with a stop error of “UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME” code.
A new Android malware campaign is using the Hugging Face platform as a repository for thousands of variations of an APK payload that collects credentials for popular financial and payment services.
Hugging Face is a popular platform that hosts and distributes artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP), and machine learning (ML) models, datasets, and applications.
It is considered a trusted platform unlikely to trigger security warnings, but bad actors have abused it in the past to host malicious AI models.
The Aisuru/Kimwolf botnet launched a new massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 31.4 Tbps and 200 million requests per second, setting a new record.
The attack was part of a campaign targeting multiple companies, most of them in the telecommunications sector, and was detected and mitigated by Cloudflare last year on December 19.
Aisuru is responsible for the previous DDoS record that reached 29.7 Tbps. Another attack that Microsoft attributed to the botnet peaked at 15.72 Tbps and originated from 500,000 IP addresses.