InfoSec News Nuggets 01/06/2026

RondoDox Botnet Exploits Critical React2Shell Flaw to Hijack IoT Devices and Web Servers Cybersecurity researchers disclosed a persistent nine-month campaign targeting Internet of Things devices and web applications to enroll them into the RondoDox botnet, which has recently weaponized the critical React2Shell vulnerability (CVE-2025-55182, CVSS 10.0). The campaign evolved through three phases starting in March 2025, progressing from reconnaissance to daily mass vulnerability probing of WordPress, Drupal, and IoT devices, and ultimately to hourly automated…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 01/02/2025

European Space Agency Confirms Cyber Breach After Hacker Claims System Access The European Space Agency acknowledged a security incident involving servers outside its corporate network after a threat actor known as '888' claimed on BreachForums to have accessed ESA systems for approximately one week. The affected servers supported unclassified collaborative engineering activities within the scientific community, and ESA says only a very small number of external systems were compromised. The agency is conducting forensic investigations…
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