Mysterious Hack Destroyed 600,000 Internet Routers
Briefly

A pair of researchers revealed how they cracked an 11-year-old password to a crypto wallet containing roughly $3 million in bitcoins by uncovering a flaw in RoboForm password manager's password generation, allowing them to access the hidden fortune.
Police in Western countries are now using trolling tactics to disrupt cybercriminals, such as leaving messages on seized websites to create distrust among criminal hackers who already have reasons to distrust each other.
A graduate student at the University of Minnesota faces charges under the Espionage Act for taking photos with a drone of a shipyard in Virginia where the US Navy builds classified nuclear submarines, marking the first such prosecution in the US.
The US disrupted what might be the 'largest botnet ever,' referred to as 911 S5, which had 19 million hijacked IP addresses globally, involved in activities like Covid-19 relief fraud, bomb threats, child sexual abuse material trafficking, among others.
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