Introduction “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know […]
Introduction Last August, Black Lotus Labs participated in the DEF CON Red Team Village CTF. If that sentence reads as gobbledygook to you, read on as we unpack it. This blog will introduce CTFs and related security concepts, then show […]
Lumen Technologies is in the data business. Our primary goal is to make sure our customers remain connected to their applications and data no matter where they reside while providing solutions that provide flexibility, security, collaboration, and low latency. But […]
Executive Summary Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs detected a new remote access trojan we’re calling ReverseRat. Based on our global telemetry and analysis, we identified that the actor is targeting government and energy organizations in the South and Central Asia regions […]
The Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies recently discovered a hacktivist campaign affecting internet-exposed routers and switches that occurred primarily on May 13, 2021. During this campaign, the threat actor abused the victims’ misconfigured Cisco Smart Install protocol, which […]
It would be easy to keep important things secure from prying eyes if you sealed them in a box and chained the box to the bottom of the ocean. The tradeoff, of course, is that you would completely lose the […]
In recent years, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) events have become an ever-present threat, featuring attack traffic pushing to levels measured in terabits per second (Tbps). One of the key tools in the hands of cybercriminals seeking to increase the […]
Lumen has once again demonstrated our commitment to innovation, leading a series B round of funding for Section.io, a start-up focused on accelerating applications at the Edge. We are proud to support Section’s continued growth through this investment. The company, […]
I ask myself that question a lot. After all, we have made a commitment to be a company that will enable human progress through the technologies we deliver. Progress can’t happen without care and responsibility. The 2020 Environmental, Social and […]
Like many of us who started out in telecommunications, I have spent most of my sales career in the fulfillment business. My teams would work with enterprises of all sizes to identify which solutions met their voice and data needs. […]
