Google dismantles massive botnet hidden in Android TV boxes

The overwhelming majority of the infected devices in the X.CPE botnet are Android TV set-top boxes, Google said, adding that they observed a number of other infected Android-based IoT devices, including telehealth devices, karaoke machines and digital signage devices.

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British businesses caught in Europe-wide supermarket fridge attacks

Supermarket and grocery store refrigerator controls across Europe were hacked in the early hours of Monday in the second such wave of attacks in recent weeks — following a first wave in France — with unidentified perpetrators defrosting fridges and causing stock to spoil.

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USN-8994-1: libvips vulnerabilities

It was discovered that libvips incorrectly handled certain PDF files with a page that defines a width but not a height. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libvips to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2025-59933) It was discovered that libvi…