A homoglyph is a text characters with shapes that identical or similar to each other. Common examples are zero/O and one/l . More complex Homoglyphs are derived from characters used in other languages that are a part of Unicode. In the following, this website converts english text “EtherealMind” into characters that looks similar but use completely different HTML […]
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Every now and then someone actually looks at the VXLAN packet format and eventually figures out that VXLAN encapsulation doesn’t provide any intrinsic security.
TL&DR Summary: That’s old news, the sky is not falling, and deploying VXLAN won’t make your network less secure than traditional VLAN- or MPLS-based networks.
Read more ...Proxying around 5% of the Internet’s requests gives us an interesting vantage point from which to observe malicious behavior. It also make us a target. Aside from the many, varied denial of service attacks that break against our defenses we also see huge number of phishing campaigns. In this blog post I will dissect a recent phishing attack that we detected and neutralized with the help of our friends at Bluehost.
An attack that is particularly interesting as it appears to be using a brand new WordPress 0day.
A Day Out Phishing
The first sign we typically see that shows a new phishing campaign is underway are the phishing emails themselves. There's general a constant background noise of a few of these emails targeting individual customers every day. However when a larger campaign starts up, typically that trickle turns into a flood of very similar messages.
Messages like this one:
Note — We will never send you an email like this. If you see one, its fake and should be reported to our abuse team by forwarding it to [email protected].
In terms of the phishing campaign timeline, these emails aren’t the first event. Much like a spider looking to Continue reading
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