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 […]
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 […]
