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The message arrived on a Tuesday morning, a wrong number, apparently, followed by an apology and then a brief, friendly exchange. The person on the other end seemed harmless, interesting even. They mentioned travel, asked thoughtful questions, and remembered details from one conversation to the next. Months passed, and a trust was built – this was of the kind that takes time. Then came the mention, almost as an afterthought, of a trading platform that had been performing quietly and reliably for years.

Researchers at Infoblox uncovered a 14,000-device botnet dubbed Mikro Typo, hijacking MikroTik routers as email proxies. Exploiting misconfigured SPF DNS records, the botnet relays spam and phishing campaigns that bypass authentication checks — a stealthy, service-oriented operation that went undetected for months.

Cybersecurity leaders gathered for the second annual Women in Cyber Security Summit at Australian Parliament House on 12 March, bringing together senior figures from government, industry, education and advocacy to address one of the sector’s most pressing challenges: improving diversity in the cyber workforce.

Cyber security leaders from government, industry and academia gathered at Parliament House this week for the second annual Women in Cyber Security Summit, where speakers called for stronger action to improve diversity across the country’s rapidly growing cyber workforce.

A threat actor has found a new way to evade phishing detection defenses: Manipulate the .arpa top-level domain (TLD) and IPv6-to-IPv4 tunneling to host phishing content on domains that shouldn’t resolve to an IP address.

A threat actor has been abusing the internet infrastructure top-level domain (TLD) .arpa to host phishing content on domains that should not resolve to IP addresses, Infoblox reports.

There’s a difference between supporting women and backing them. The former is often verbal and the latter is measurable. For Dr Renée Burton, Vice President of Threat Intelligence at Infoblox, the phrase “rising women worth backing now” resonates because it demands action... not admiration.

Threat actors are abusing the special-use ".arpa" domain and IPv6 reverse DNS in phishing campaigns that more easily evade domain reputation checks and email security gateways.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how organizations across the Middle East think about IT operations and cybersecurity.

ARPANET. If you know your internet history, ARPANET was the forerunner of the internet. Dating back to 1969, it gave birth to the World Wide Web decades later. Far from being an obscure crumb of history, it lives on in ways that fly under the radar day to day.