Lazarus Group exploits ManageEngine vulnerability to deploy QuiteRAT

Cisco Talos discovered the North Korean state-sponsored actor Lazarus Group targeting internet backbone infrastructure and healthcare entities in Europe and the United States. This is the third documented campaign attributed to this actor in less than a year, with the actor reusing the same...

Internet Backbone Giant Lumen Shuns .RU

Lumen Technologies, an American company that operates one of the largest Internet backbones and carries a significant percentage of the worlds Internet traffic, said today it will stop routing traffic for organizations based in Russia. Lumens decision comes just days after a similar exit by...

A Major Internet Backbone Company Cuts Off Russia

Plus: A ransomware gang leak, an Nvidia hack, and more of the week's top security news...

Surveillance of the Internet Backbone

Vice has an article about how data brokers sell access to the Internet backbone. This is netflow data. Its useful for cybersecurity forensics, but can also be used for things like tracing VPN activity. At a high level, netflow data creates a picture of traffic flow and volume across a network. It...

Russia’s SolarWinds Attack and Software Security

The information that is emerging about Russias extensive cyberintelligence operation against the United States and other countries should be increasingly alarming to the public. The magnitude of the hacking, now believed to have affected more than 250 federal agencies and businesses -- ­primarily...

A Broken Piece of Internet Backbone Might Finally Get Fixed

Efforts to secure the Border Gateway Protocol have picked up critical momentum, including a big assist from Google...

Someone Just Tried to Take Down Internet's Backbone with 5 Million Queries/Sec

Someone just DDoSed one of the most critical organs of the Internet anatomy – The Internet's DNS Root Servers. Early last week, a flood of as many as 5 Million queries per second hit many of the Internet's DNS Domain Name System Root Servers that act as the authoritative reference for mapping...

Launching Forward with IPv6

With the era of freely available IPv4 addresses nearing its end, I'm pleased to see that 2012 appears to be the year when the IPv6 Internet will finally reach maturity and launch into wide-scale commercial use. For over a decade, the groundwork for the migration to version 6 of the Internet...