In April, Chelan County, Washington, shut down its entire network, phone lines, and public websites after a malware attack, and officials had no timeline for when normal service would return. That is not a hypothetical scenario from a conference slide. That is six months into 2026, and it is one of 10 stories that tell […]
Cyber Security Weekly Roundup: Week of June 29 – July 5, 2026
1. FBI Dismantles NetNut, One of the World’s Largest Residential Proxy Networks On July 3, the FBI and private-sector partners took down NetNut, a residential proxy service built on roughly 2 million secretly hijacked home devices. The network had quietly routed criminal traffic — from credential stuffing to fraud — through ordinary people’s routers and […]