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The technology world has a habit of shifting underfoot, faster than many organizations can run. In the wake of the first two blogs in our three-part series on ransomware, the problem has escalated dramatically. In this post, we want to […]
Executive Summary In early June 2021, Black Lotus Labs identified ReverseRat, a remote access trojan (RAT) operated by a suspected Pakistani actor that was targeting government and energy sector organizations in South and Central Asia. After publishing our initial research, […]
This blog was co-written with Mark Ramach, Principal Software Developer. The federal cloud migration is well underway. Additionally, our federal customers are requesting increasing levels of automation via system-to-system interactions. Because of this, our portals and products are becoming increasingly […]
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 […]
By delivering the fastest, most secure platform for applications and data to help businesses, government and communities deliver amazing experiences, Lumen plays a critical role in the communications and technology ecosystem that can help protect the cybersecurity of all things. […]
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 […]
Cybersecurity is more important than ever these days, which is why it’s imperative that government agencies’ data be protected by the highest level of government security standards. To ensure that agencies receive the highest level of cybersecurity protections under a […]
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 […]
