New, from me: Who Operates the Badbox 2.0 Botnet? The cybercriminals in control of Kimwolf -- a disruptive botnet that has infected more than 2 million devices -- recently shared a screenshot indicating they'd compromised the control panel for Badbox 2.0, a vast China-based botnet powered by malicious software that comes pre-installed on many Android TV streaming boxes. Both the FBI and Google say they are hunting for the people behind Badbox 2.0, and thanks to bragging by the Kimwolf botmasters we may now have a much clearer idea about that.

Who Operates the Badbox 2.0 Botnet? – Krebs on Security

Had way more fun that I should have watching doggo try to do her business this morning. Blew off the driveway yesterday, only to have about 2.5 inches of sleet freeze on top of a light layer of snow. Hard enough to for a 170 lb person walk on without leaving a footprint. She got to the side yard and started sliding backwards all the way down the hill, all while frantically trying to gain her footing. She's fine, but poor thing was really scared while I was on the ground laughing my ass off.

After reluctantly catching up on the news during my snooze, this was the first bit I've read this morning that actually made me smile out loud (when you grin so wide and suddenly that your mouth actually makes noise): via @npub189h3...stm6 "He was an audio engineer whose kid went to school in the area. No way in hell was he going to let anyone come for the kids on his watch." "Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" A...

Politico writes: "Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls, the Justice Department revealed in newly disclosed court papers." "Elizabeth Shapiro, a top Justice Department official, said SSA referred both DOGE employees for potential violations of the Hatch Act, which bars government employees from using their official positions for political purposes. "Shapiro’s previously unreported disclosure, dated Friday, came as part of a list of “corrections” to testimony by top SSA officials during last year’s legal battles over DOGE’s access to Social Security data. They revealed that DOGE team members shared data on unapproved “third-party” servers and may have accessed private information that had been ruled off-limits by a court at the time." Kind of makes you wonder about the rest of the departments where DOGE had access. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/20/trump-musk-doge-social-security-00737245?cid=apn