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Cybercriminals move deeper into networks, hiding in edge infrastructure

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Cybercriminals move deeper into networks, hiding in edge infrastructure 2026-04-08 at 08:12 By Sinisa Markovic Attack activity is moving toward infrastructure outside endpoint visibility. Proxy networks support a wide range of operations, edge devices serve as initial access points, and GenAI speeds up how attackers assemble and rebuild their tooling. Lumen’s 2026 Threatscape Report describes […]

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Lumma Stealer Malware-as-a-Service operation disrupted

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Lumma Stealer Malware-as-a-Service operation disrupted 2025-05-21 at 21:21 By Zeljka Zorz A coordinated action by US, European and Japanese authorities and tech companies like Microsoft and Cloudflare has disrupted the infrastructure behind Lumma Stealer, the most significant infostealer threat at the moment. What is Lumma Stealer? Lumma Stealer is Malware-as-a-Service offering beloved by a wide

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Law enforcement takes down proxy botnets used by criminals

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Law enforcement takes down proxy botnets used by criminals 2025-05-12 at 21:11 By Zeljka Zorz US and Dutch law enforcement, with the help of Lumen researchers, have disrupted 5socks and Anyproxy, two proxy-for-rent services that were used by criminals for ad fraud and DDoS and brute-force attacks (among other things). The domain seizure notice The

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Juniper enterprise routers backdoored via “magic packet” malware

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Juniper enterprise routers backdoored via “magic packet” malware 2025-01-23 at 20:05 By Zeljka Zorz A stealthy attack campaign turned Juniper enterprise-grade routers into entry points to corporate networks via the “J-magic” backdoor, which is loaded into the devices’ memory and spawns a reverse shell when instructed to do so. “Our telemetry indicates the J-magic campaign

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FBI forced Flax Typhoon to abandon its botnet

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FBI forced Flax Typhoon to abandon its botnet 2024-09-19 at 14:16 By Zeljka Zorz A botnet operated by the Chinese state-sponsored threat actor known as Flax Typhoon has been disrupted by the law enforcement agency and abandoned by the group, FBI Director Chris Wray confirmed on Wednesday. “We executed court-authorized operations to take control of

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Versa Director zero-day exploited to compromise ISPs, MSPs (CVE-2024-39717)

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Versa Director zero-day exploited to compromise ISPs, MSPs (CVE-2024-39717) 2024-08-27 at 19:01 By Zeljka Zorz Advanced, persistent attackers have exploited a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2024-39717) in Versa Director to compromise US-based managed service providers with a custom-made web shell dubbed VersaMem by the researchers. The malware harvests credentials enabling the attackers to access the providers’ downstream

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New SOHO router malware aims for cloud accounts, internal company resources

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New SOHO router malware aims for cloud accounts, internal company resources 2024-05-02 at 14:46 By Zeljka Zorz Cuttlefish, a new malware family that targets enterprise-grade small office/home office (SOHO) routers, is used by criminals to steal account credentials / secrets for AWS, CloudFlare, Docker, BitBucket and other cloud-based services. “With the stolen key material, the

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Hackers backdoored Cisco ASA devices via two zero-days (CVE-2024-20353, CVE-2024-20359)

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Hackers backdoored Cisco ASA devices via two zero-days (CVE-2024-20353, CVE-2024-20359) 2024-04-24 at 21:31 By Zeljka Zorz A state-sponsored threat actor has managed to compromise Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) used on government networks across the globe and use two zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-20353, CVE-2024-20359) to install backdoors on them, Cisco Talos researchers have shared on Wednesday.

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Lumen Data Protect defends critical business data from corruption

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Lumen Data Protect defends critical business data from corruption 10/08/2023 at 20:33 By Industry News Lumen is introducing Lumen Data Protect, a service for companies battling the growing risks associated with data corruption and security failure. Lumen Data Protect is an enterprise grade, fully managed data protection service built on the Lumen edge and backed

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Qakbot: The trojan that just won’t go away

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Qakbot: The trojan that just won’t go away 02/06/2023 at 11:33 By Helga Labus Qakbot (aka Qbot) – banking malware-turned-malware/ransomware distribution network – has been first observed in 2007 and is active to this day. The neverending adaptability of this threat is key to its long-term survival and success. “Qakbot operators tend to reduce or

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