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Black Lotus Labs

The mission of Black Lotus Labs is to leverage our network visibility to help protect customers and keep the internet clean.




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Taking the Elevator down to ring 0

Executive Summary The Black Lotus Labs team has discovered a highly unique piece of […]

Black Lotus Labs Posted On November 14, 2023

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No rest for the wicked: HiatusRAT takes little time off in a return to action

Executive Summary    In March 2023, Lumen Black Lotus Labs reported on a complex campaign […]

Black Lotus Labs Posted On August 17, 2023

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Routers from the Underground: Exposing AVrecon

Executive Summary Lumen Black Lotus Labs® identified another multi-year campaign involving compromised routers across […]

Black Lotus Labs Posted On July 12, 2023

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Qakbot: retool, reinfect, recycle

Executive Summary Qakbot (aka Pinkslipbot, Qbot) has persisted as a banking trojan – then […]

Black Lotus Labs Posted On June 1, 2023

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New HiatusRAT router malware covertly spies on victims

Executive Summary Just nine months after discovering ZuoRAT – a novel malware targeting small […]

Black Lotus Labs Posted On March 6, 2023

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CLDAP Reflectors on the Rise Despite Best Practice

Executive Summary The sophistication of threat actors’ DDoS strategy and tactics continues to evolve […]

Black Lotus Labs Posted On October 24, 2022

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Chaos is a Go-based Swiss army knife of malware

Executive Summary The prevalence of malware written in Go programming language has increased dramatically […]

Black Lotus Labs Posted On September 28, 2022

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ZuoRAT Hijacks SOHO Routers to Silently Stalk Networks

Executive Summary The rapid shift to remote work in spring of 2020 presented a […]

Black Lotus Labs Posted On June 28, 2022

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Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL): Threats Still Lurk Below the (Sub)Surface

Executive Summary Last fall, Black Lotus Labs discovered in the wild what had until […]

Black Lotus Labs Posted On March 24, 2022

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Emotet Redux

What Global Network Visibility Reveals about the Resurgence of One of the World’s Most […]

Black Lotus Labs Posted On March 8, 2022

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