International intelligence and cybersecurity agencies jointly issued a warning Thursday about “fast flux,” an advanced technique used by cybercriminals and state-sponsored actors to evade detection and maintain resilient command and control infrastructure. Fast flux involves rapidly changing or swapping out IP addresses linked to a particular domain. These quick changes render malicious activity nearly invisible…
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U.S. sanctions bulletproof hosting provider for supplying LockBit infrastructure
A consortium of U.S., Australian and U.K. officials announced coordinated sanctions Tuesday against Zservers, a Russia-based bulletproof hosting provider. The action targets the company for its role in facilitating ransomware attacks, most notably those conducted by the LockBit ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group. Officials detailed that Zservers has long been linked to cybercriminal forums, where it has…