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Threat Intelligence
FBI Pulls Plug on Chinese Espionage 'Quartermaster' That Rented Out Hacking Kit
A commercial-style service sold reconnaissance, proxy routing, and relay networks to China-linked spies targeting US critical infrastructure. Lumen's Black Lotus Labs helped map it.
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Threat Intelligence
Outsider Enterprise: the phishing-as-a-service mill that wasn't really 'AI-powered'
FBI, Google and Black Lotus Labs took down a Chinese PhaaS operation running close to a million phishing URLs. The 'AI' part is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
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Threat Intelligence
JDY Botnet Turns 1,500 Compromised SOHO Devices Into a Nation-State Targeting Engine
Lumen's Black Lotus Labs links the scanning network to Volt Typhoon. The threat isn't the botnet itself — it's the reconnaissance data it harvests before you've even read the CVE advisory.
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Threat Intelligence
Showboat: A Modular Linux Backdoor Quietly Camped in a Middle East Telco Since 2022
Lumen's Black Lotus Labs ties the SOCKS5-capable implant to a years-long intrusion at a regional carrier, with an in-memory loader and ELF payloads that sidestep most host telemetry.
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