Day: November 1, 2024

Microsoft credentials pilfered by APT Storm via botnet spray-and-pray router attack

Chinese threat actor Storm-0940 has been stealing credentials from Microsoft customers by leveraging the Quad7 botnet to launch highly-evasive password spray attacks on a broad cross-section of organizations in Europe and North America. In an October 31 blog post, Microsoft Threat Intelligence said Storm-0940 has been active since at least 2021 and typically obtains access […]

CISA Director Easterly seeks to quell concerns about election security

U.S. elections have “never been more secure,” said Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly in public comments days before the 2024 Presidential Election, as officials seek to quell fears about both domestic and foreign interference in the democratic process. Easterly covered topics including ballot security, disinformation campaigns, voter registration data security and physical […]

Ericsson new 5G Advanced software targets programmable networks

Press Release After building out 5G networks, communications service providers (CSPs) are ready to further harness the benefits of this technology. Today, Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) unveils seven 5G Advanced software products designed to empower CSPs with high-performing programmable networks. These innovations will elevate performance, enhance user experience, and drive revenue growth and operational efficiency, opening […]

Yue Wei, Huawei: Intelligence empowers F5.5G premium all-optical network

Viewpoint At the 10th Ultra-Broadband Forum (UBBF) 2024, the Autonomous Driving Networks (ADN) Summit was held under the theme of “Advancing Toward AN L4: Empowering Superior UBB Operations.” At the forum, Yue Wei, President of Huawei’s NCE Optical Network Domain, delivered a keynote speech titled “Intelligence Empowers F5.5G Premium All-Optical Network.” In the speech, he […]

Globe Telecom to manage Philippines landing of MYUS cable

News The 19,000km cable system is set to connect Malaysia to the US This week, Philippines operator Globe Telecom has announced that it has been selected to build and manage the local section of the MYUS cable system, including building a landing station at Davao City. The $720 million MYUS cable system is set to […]

CityFibre sells Lit Fibre ISP to co-founders  

News   Lit Fibre customers will be unaffected by the change of ownership   CityFibre, the UK’s largest independent full-fibre network provider, has sold its ISP subsidiary Lit Fibre consumer internet service back to its co-founders, Tom Williams and Ben Bresler.   CityFibre, which initially acquired Lit Fibre in May 2024, aims to complete integration of […]

Ericsson and MasOrange partner for 5G Open RAN network in Spain 

News  The partnership aims to meet the rising demand for 5G while supporting sustainable, digital growth across Spain  Ericsson has partnered with newly merged MasOrange, Spain’s largest telco, in a five-year project to upgrade its network with Open RAN technology.  Announced this week, the collaboration aims to make MasOrange’s network one of Europe’s most modern […]

Quad7 botnet-compromised credentials tapped by various Chinese hackers

After Quad7’s successful exfiltration of targeted systems’ passwords through a limited number of sign-in attempts meant to evade detection, Storm-0940 immediately utilized the stolen credentials to breach networks, conduct credential dumping, and deploy remote access trojans and proxy tools to ensure persistence as part of a possible cyberespionage attack. Source link

Novel Xiū gǒu phishing kit has global reach

Hackread reports that more than 2,000 phishing websites have utilized the new phishing kit dubbed “Xiū gǒu,” which means “doggo” in Mandarin, to facilitate scams concerning government payments, postal services, and motorists against users in the U.S., Australia, Japan, Spain, and the UK since September. Attacks involved the use of Rich Communication Services messages indicating false payments that […]

New attack techniques utilized by Iranian cyber group Emennet Pasargad

China, the U.S., Canada, and Germany were most targeted by attacks with the Mirai source code-based Gorilla botnet, which involved the exploitation of UDP flood, Valve Source Engine flood, ACK BYPASS flood, ACK flood, and SYN flood techniques, as well as an old Apache Hadoop YARN RPC vulnerability, an analysis from NSFOCUS revealed. Source link