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The completion of Infoblox's acquisition of Axur, announced on 5 May, is less interesting as a corporate transaction than as a strategic admission. For a company built on the premise that the Domain Name System is enterprise security's most powerful control point, the decision to acquire a Brazilian firm specialising in dark web monitoring, brand impersonation detection and social platform takedowns represents a meaningful shift in logic. DNS, as a security layer, catches threats when they arrive. What Infoblox is buying, in Axur, is the ability to find them while they are still being built.

“Despite heavy pushes from Apple, Google, Microsoft, CISA, and us (Sophos) encouraging stronger authentication methods, compromised credentials remain our most observed root cause in identity-related attacks last year. Attackers will take advantage of password breaches from popular sites and apps we use as consumers," Kopacko said, pointing out that attackers can easily use stolen passwords for 'spray and pray' attempts or building a dictionary of a person's password history.

Cloaking has shifted from a supporting tactic into a central layer of cybercriminal infrastructure, and commercial tools are now widely embedded in cybercrime operations at scale.

Infoblox, a leader in hybrid, multi-cloud networking and preemptive security, today announced it has completed its acquisition of Axur, a global provider of AI-powered external threat discovery and digital risk protection.

“On World Password Day, updating an old password is a sensible step. But the bigger challenge is changing how we think about digital safety,” said Philip Weiner, Chief Executive Officer, APAC, bolttech. “Despite years of public awareness campaigns and security guidance from governments, banks and technology companies, poor password practices remain widespread.”

Infoblox has completed the acquisition of Axur. With this move, the DNS company is adding protection against external digital threats to its portfolio. Axur is a Brazilian company specializing in detecting and removing threats outside the network perimeter. Infoblox is launching a new service, Digital Risk Protection Services (DRPS), immediately.

A coordinated international operation involving U.S. and Chinese authorities has arrested at least 276 suspects and shut down nine scam centers used for cryptocurrency investment fraud schemes targeting Americans, resulting in millions of dollars in losses.

The rise of large language models has made Generative AI a global phenomenon almost overnight. Despite the term first being coined in the 1950s, generative AI is everywhere now – dinner parties, billboards, podcasts and even your local supermarket.

CAPTCHAs, the simple tests we use to prove we are human, are increasingly being weaponized to trigger actions with hidden costs. Infoblox Threat Intel has uncovered fake CAPTCHA pages that trick users into sending high volumes of international text messages, fueling a long-running fraud category called international revenue share fraud (IRSF).

Fake CAPTCHAs are not just about copying and pasting links to malware - they can also be about sending an SMS to an international number and being charged a whole lot for the privilege.