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Throughout my career, I have seen technology achieve unimaginable levels of speed across our data networks. In so many ways, what we once considered network “latency” is quickly becoming a thing of the past. Now the real challenge might be […]
Although I live in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, my favorite sports team plays seven time zones away. I’m a fan of international football in general, and FC Barcelona in particular, because I love the beauty and fluidity of […]
Bolstered by contributions from Black Lotus Labs and others, Microsoft and FS-ISAC recently took court action to disrupt a particularly insidious botnet called TrickBot – a significant source of ransomware and banking credential theft. As the threat intelligence arm of […]
Southern California is a dynamic melting pot of diversity – from cultures to businesses large and small. It’s also my home. I love LA. And San Diego. And everywhere in between. Our network expansions in the area will connect more of this dynamism to the world. In […]
As we’ve previously written, adversaries continue to ramp up DNS-based attacks to support a wide range of criminal activities. As part of our mission to leverage our network visibility to both help protect customers and keep the internet clean, Black […]
Summary The explosion of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has long served as a breeding ground for malware distribution. The inability for users to patch many IoT devices has only compounded this problem, as bad actors continue to evolve tactics […]
Despite the ubiquity of DNS, too many security teams today do not adequately prioritize it as a focus for monitoring and mitigation of risk. As recent security headlines demonstrate, one increasingly common cyberattack employed by malicious actors is DNS tunneling, […]
Over the past several years, Emotet has established itself as a pervasive and continually evolving threat, morphing from a prominent banking trojan to a modular spam and malware-as-a-service botnet with global distribution. After emerging in June 2014 targeting German and […]
Introduction The Necurs botnet has a well-known and sordid history of criminal endeavors. Today, it is regarded as one of the most prolific spam and malware distribution botnets in existence. However, despite its reputation for delivering spam, its operators have […]
Over the past year, CenturyLink Threat Research Labs has been tracking an IoT botnet called “TheMoon”. TheMoon is a modular botnet specifically targeting vulnerabilities in routers within broadband networks. Since its identification in early 2014 [1], the botnet has evolved […]
