Smoke over Rio de Janeiro: Deadly anti-gang raid leaves 64 dead, including 4 police officers — watch video

A massive police operation targeting the Comando Vermelho gang in Rio de Janeiro resulted in at least 64 deaths, including four officers, marking the deadliest raid in the city’s history. The operation, involving 2,500 security personnel, occurred days…

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Aisuru Botnet Shifts from DDoS to Residential Proxies

Aisuru, the botnet responsible for a series of record-smashing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks this year, recently was overhauled to support a more low-key, lucrative and sustainable business: Renting hundreds of thousands of infected Internet of Things (IoT) devices to proxy services that help cybercriminals anonymize their traffic. Experts says a glut of proxies from Aisuru and other sources is fueling large-scale data harvesting efforts tied to various artificial intelligence (AI) projects, helping content scrapers evade detection by routing their traffic through residential connections that appear to be regular Internet users.

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