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NPM, encryption, and the challenges ahead: Part 1 of 2

Kentik

It’s interesting to observe how encryption and network performance monitoring (NPM) have evolved over time. When I first entered the networking industry right out of college, many applications sent passwords over the network in clear text, unencrypted. Encrypted passwords came along as did token authentication. What is NPM?

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How to find applications with NetFlow

Kentik

Natively, it can’t tell us with a high degree of certainty the actual application behind the flow. Natively, it can’t tell us with a high degree of certainty the actual application behind the flow. NetFlow v5), let’s explore different methods that have been used to determine the application behind a flow. Don’t rely on ports.

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EP147: The Ultimate API Learning Roadmap

ByteByteGo

Youtube video) The Ultimate API Learning Roadmap 30 Useful AI Apps That Can Help You in 2025 10 Essential Components of a Production Web Application How do we design effective and safe APIs? Here’s a roadmap that covers the most important topics: Introduction to APIs API is a set of protocols and tools for building applications.

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The malware threat landscape: NodeStealer, DuckTail, and more

Engineering at Meta

As part of this effort, we submitted takedown requests to third-party registrars, hosting providers, and application services such as Namecheap, which were targeted by these threat actors to facilitate distribution and malicious operations. These actions led to a successful disruption of the malware. For context, Node.js

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WannaCry II: How to Stop NotPetya Infections with the Cato Cloud

CATO Networks

Other attack vectors that were found in the wild are Microsoft Office documents armed with embedded HTAs (HTML Applications) that are designed to exploit CVE-2017-0199 , first discovered in April 2017. The machine is then forced to reboot, encrypting the files and locking the computer.

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A SASE Approach to Enterprise Ransomware Protection

CATO Networks

Double Extortion: Double extortion ransomware both steals and encrypts sensitive and valuable data on an infected system. Lateral Movement: Ransomware rarely immediately lands on a device containing the high-value data that it plans to encrypt. This model increased the number of companies infected with high-quality ransomware.

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The Evolution of Qakbot: How Cato Networks Adapts to the Latest Threats 

CATO Networks

The first stage of the Qakbot infection process begins when a user clicks on a link inside a malicious email attachment. Typically, MSHTA.exe is used legitimately to execute HTML applications, and that is why this process usually evades detection as being malicious. Wermgr.exe is a legitimate Windows Event Log application.

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