KV-Botnet: Don’t call it a Comeback
Executive Summary On December 13, 2023, Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs reported our findings on […]
Routers Roasting on an Open Firewall: the KV-botnet Investigation
Executive Summary The Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies is tracking a small […]
Taking the Elevator down to ring 0
Executive Summary The Black Lotus Labs team has discovered a highly unique piece of […]
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 […]
Routers from the Underground: Exposing AVrecon
Executive Summary Lumen Black Lotus Labs® identified another multi-year campaign involving compromised routers across […]
Qakbot: retool, reinfect, recycle
Executive Summary Qakbot (aka Pinkslipbot, Qbot) has persisted as a banking trojan – then […]
New HiatusRAT router malware covertly spies on victims
Executive Summary Just nine months after discovering ZuoRAT – a novel malware targeting small […]
CLDAP Reflectors on the Rise Despite Best Practice
Executive Summary The sophistication of threat actors’ DDoS strategy and tactics continues to evolve […]
Chaos is a Go-based Swiss army knife of malware
Executive Summary The prevalence of malware written in Go programming language has increased dramatically […]
ZuoRAT Hijacks SOHO Routers to Silently Stalk Networks
Executive Summary The rapid shift to remote work in spring of 2020 presented a […]
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