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A court-authorized international law enforcement operation has dismantled a criminal proxy service named SocksEscort that enslaved thousands of residential routers worldwide into a botnet for committing large-scale fraud. “SocksEscort infected home and small business internet routers with malware,” the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said. “The malware allowed SocksEscort to direct internet traffic through the infected routers. SocksEscort sold this access to its customers.” SocksEscort (“socksescort[.]com”) is said to have offered to sell access to about 369,000 different IP addresses in 163 countries since the summer of 2020, with the service listing nearly 8,000 infected routers as of February 2026.…

ABM is not a campaign. It is not a tactic. It is a strategy that requires patience, personalization, and the willingness to engage people who have not asked to hear from you yet. Most SaaS teams are doing a pale imitation of it and wondering why nothing closes. Everyone has heard the ABM success stories. Pipeline quality goes up. Sales cycles shorten. The right accounts start responding. The whole go-to-market motion starts feeling less like shouting into a void and more like a real conversation. So teams invest in it. Buy the intent tools. Build the account lists. Set up…

Characterized by weakened or damaged heart musculature, heart failure results in the gradual buildup of fluid in a patient’s lungs, legs, feet, and other parts of the body. The condition is chronic and incurable, often leading to arrhythmias or sudden cardiac arrest. For many centuries, bloodletting and leeches were the treatment of choice, famously practiced by barber surgeons in Europe, during a time when physicians rarely operated on patients. In the 21st century, the management of heart failure has become decidedly less medieval: Today, patients undergo a combination of healthy lifestyle changes, prescription of medications, and sometimes use pacemakers. Yet heart…

Rivian has a space at Seattle’s University Village where shoppers can look at, sit in, but not drive its electric vehicles. That will change Jan. 1, 2027 when Rivian and Lucid Motors are expected to gain permission in Washington to sell directly to consumers. (GeekWire Photo / Brent Roraback) At the start of next year, Washington state shoppers will for the first time be able to visit showrooms for Rivian and Lucid Motors, take a test drive, discuss financing, and walk out with keys to their new electric vehicle. State lawmakers this week passed Senate Bill 6354, allowing the two…

Fox is expanding the Family Guy universe with a new spinoff centered on one of its most iconic characters. The network has officially ordered ‘Stewie’, a standalone animated series focused on Stewie Griffin, the mischievous baby genius from the long-running comedy show. Seth MacFarlane, the creator of Family Guy, will return as the voice of Stewie and will also serve as an executive producer on the project. Longtime Family Guy writer and producer Kirker Butler will take on the role of showrunner, helping shape the direction of the new series. What the new Stewie spinoff series is about Family Guy…

This blog post focuses on new features and improvements. For a comprehensive list, including bug fixes, please see the release notes. Three-Command CLI Workflow for Model Deployment Getting models from development to production typically involves multiple tools, configuration files, and deployment steps. You scaffold a model locally, test it in isolation, configure infrastructure, write deployment scripts, and then push to production. Each step requires context switching and manual coordination. With Clarifai 12.2, we’ve streamlined this into a 3-command workflow: model init, model serve, and model deploy. These commands handle scaffolding, local testing, and production deployment with automatic infrastructure provisioning, GPU…

America’s AI industry isn’t just divided by competing interests, but also by conflicting worldviews.In Silicon Valley, opinion about how artificial intelligence should be developed and used — and regulated — runs the gamut between two poles. At one end lie “accelerationists,” who believe that humanity should expand AI’s capabilities as quickly as possible, unencumbered by overhyped safety concerns or government meddling.• Leading figures at Anthropic and OpenAI disagree about how to balance the objectives of ensuring AI’s safety and accelerating its progress.• Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei believes that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity, unless AI labs and governments carefully…

Unified Visibility Across Cloud EnvironmentsCentralized view of configurations, workloads, APIs, and data across multi-cloud environments.Prevents blind spots and helps correlate misconfigurations with active threats faster.Check dashboard clarity, correlation capability, and reporting visibility for leadership.Cloud Native Data ProtectionMonitoring where sensitive data lives, how it moves, and who accesses it across cloud workloads.Reduces risk of data leaks, compliance failures, and unauthorized access.Evaluate encryption visibility, data access monitoring, and integration with workload security.Security Operations IntegrationCompatibility with SIEM, XDR, SOAR, endpoint, and cloud monitoring tools.Improves investigation speed and avoids operational silos.Assess API integration, workflow continuity, and automation compatibility.Scalability Across Hybrid Cloud EnvironmentsAbility to support…

John Solly, a software engineer and former member of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is the DOGE operative reportedly accused in a whistleblower complaint of telling colleagues that he stored sensitive Social Security Administration (SSA) data on a thumb drive and wanted to share the information with his new employer, multiple sources tell WIRED.Since October, according to a copy of his résumé, Solly has worked as the chief technology officer for the health IT division of a government contractor called Leidos, which has already received millions in SSA contracts and could receive up to $1.5 billion in contracts…

Phishing has quietly turned into one of the hardest enterprise threats to expose early. Instead of crude lures and obvious payloads, modern campaigns rely on trusted infrastructure, legitimate-looking authentication flows, and encrypted traffic that conceals malicious behavior from traditional detection layers. For CISOs, the priority is now clear: scale phishing detection in a way that helps the SOC uncover real risk before it becomes credential theft, business interruption, and board-level fallout. Why Scaling Phishing Detection Has Become a Priority for Modern SOCs For many security teams, phishing is no longer a single alert to investigate — it is a continuous…