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The malware threat landscape: NodeStealer, DuckTail, and more

Engineering at Meta

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. NodeStealer is custom-written in JavaScript and bundles the Node.js An example of malware hosted on a third-party website disguised as a ChatGPT download.

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A Brief History of the Internet’s Biggest BGP Incidents

Kentik

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.