Securing your network for the holidays

Enterprise-grade Juniper Networks routers have become the target of a custom backdoor as part of a campaign dubbed J-magic. According to the Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies, the activity is so named for the fact that the backdoor continuously monitors for a “magic packet” sent by the threat actor in TCP traffic.  “J-magic…

Virtualization and networking infrastructure have been targeted by a threat actor codenamed Fire Ant as part of a prolonged cyber espionage campaign. The activity, observed this year, is primarily designed Now to infiltrate organizations’ VMware ESXi and vCenter environments as well as network appliances, Sygnia said in a new report published today. “The threat actor…

It’s called “grokking,” and gives spammers a way to skirt X’s ban on links in promoted posts and reach larger audiences than ever before.

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to an active device code phishing campaign that’s targeting Microsoft 365 identities across more than 340 organizations in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Germany. The activity, per Huntress, was first spotted on February 19, 2026, with subsequent cases appearing at an accelerated pace since then. Notably, the campaign…

Rapid digitization, uneven cybersecurity know-how, and growing cybercriminal syndicates in the region have challenged law enforcement and prosecutors.

Analysts weigh in on how democratizing cybersecurity could benefit organizations, particularly SMBs, as threats increase across the landscape.