Engineering at Meta

MAY 3, 2023

Building custom malware to target specific internet platforms Our industry continues to detect and disrupt custom-built novel malware that targets business for advertising fraud. With the decryption key now extracted, the malware decrypts the encrypted data read from the “Login Data” file using AES decryption.

Cookie 116

Cookie Internet JavaScript Media 116

CATO Networks

AUGUST 17, 2021

Source: Market Trends: How to Win as WAN Edge and Security Converge Into the Secure Access Service Edge, 29 July 2019, Joe Skorupa, Neil MacDonald VPN Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions provide an encrypted link between a network and a remote user or network. DNS The Domain Name Service (DNS ) is the address book of the Internet.

Networking 52

Networking Network NaaS SASE 52

Kentik

JUNE 5, 2023

Disruptions and attacks caused by BGP incidents In BGP parlance, the term “routing leak” broadly refers to a routing incident in which one or more BGP advertisements are propagated between ASes in a way they were not intended to. In 2018, attackers employed a BGP hijack that redirected traffic to Amazon’s authoritative DNS service.

IP Address 145

IP Address DNS Internet Routers 145

Kentik

MAY 29, 2019

Unfortunately, packet capture is becoming less feasible with the abstraction of networks via overlays and encryption. It could even be at the host level with configuration of DNS, or external to the network at the load balancing layers. Network Visibility in the Age of Overlays.

Networking 75

Networking Network DNS Advertising 75

CloudFaire

JANUARY 21, 2025

Only 6% was plaintext HTTP (not encrypted). HTTP vs. HTTPS in legitimate traffic and DDoS attacks: 2024 Q4 Layer 3/Layer 4 DDoS attacks The top three most common Layer 3/Layer 4 (network layer) attack vectors were SYN flood (38%), DNS flood attacks (16%), and UDP floods (14%).

IP Address 121

IP Address Networking Network Server 121