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A Look Back at 11 of the Red Report 2026 Featured Threats
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (703+ words) Picus Security, in Red Report 2026, identified the top 10 MITRE ATT&CK techniques in 2025 and named some of the groups that employed them. We zoomed in on 11 attacks featured in their report for six of the 10 ATT&CK techniques with their…...
Africa Can’t Skip IPv4 on the Road to IPv6
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (1308+ words) Africa Can't Skip IPv4 on the Road to IPv6CircleID In almost every debate about AFRINIC, someone eventually reaches for a seemingly elegant solution. Africa should stop fighting over IPv4, they say, and simply move to IPv6. In principle, that is correct. IPv6 is the long-term…...
Securing Digital Brand Borders in a Fragmented World
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (319+ words) For brand managers and IP professionals, the internet has long presented a geographical paradox: while online commerce is seamlessly global, the policies governing it are frustratingly localized. Historically, safeguarding a brand in domain names across international borders meant navigating a…...
The Misinformation War Over Africa’s Internet Registry
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (806+ words) ARIN's President and CEO, John Curran, described the controversy in 2021 as a saga involving "misappropriation" and reported that the overwhelming majority of the approximately 6.2 million addresses were not used within Africa and were predominantly leased to other parties. His account…...
Governing Through Liability: Cox v. Sony and the Fragmentation of the Internet
1+ week, 20+ hour ago (934+ words) Governing Through Liability: Cox v. Sony and the Fragmentation of the Internet'circleid.com The recent decision in Cox Communications, Inc. v. Sony Music Entertainment may appear, at first glance, to be a relatively technical clarification of contributory copyright liability. Yet to read…...
How Many Internet-Service Satellites Will Be in Orbit at the End of China’s Five-Year Plan?
1+ week, 20+ hour ago (355+ words) One could think of the Chinese constellations as a little like "divisions" of a single enterprise with the Chinese government being the "chairman of the board of directors," which meets every five years. China is developing three LEO Internet service…...
IPv4 Buying and Leasing in 2026: A Market Recalibration
1+ week, 1+ day ago (905+ words) The IPv4 market entered 2026 with a noticeable shift. Transfer prices have declined, and the question now is simple: is this a temporary dip or a structural change? The answer points to something deeper. The market is not weakening. It is maturing....
Cyber Threats, Climate Impacts, Internet Sovereignty: CaribNOG 31 Takes It All On
1+ week, 2+ day ago (160+ words) The meeting arrives at a moment of unusual convergence for Caribbean digital infrastructure. Three distinct pressures are pulling the region's technical community toward the same set of questions, and CaribNOG 31 is where those questions get worked on. The meeting is…...
The Growing Role of Threat Intelligence in Internet Infrastructure Security
1+ week, 2+ day ago (488+ words) Threat intelligence is often seen as if it were a polished add-on to operations, a monthly document, a feed of indicators, or an analytical product consumed somewhere downstream from the real work. That framing is out of date. The cybercrime…...
A Close Look under the DNS Hood of CoolClient
1+ week, 3+ day ago (478+ words) Securelist recently uncovered a new HoneyMyte (also known as "Mustang Panda" or "Bronze President") campaign leveraging an updated version of CoolClient. The group has been known to use various sophisticated tools like ToneShell, PlugX, Qreverse, CoolClient, Tonedisk, and SnakeDisk, among…...