I need a new 2.5gbps router to stick between my ISP's modem-router and my own network. Something with proper device management, port forwarding, IP bindings, being able to name devices myself instead of seeing "unknown device" and a MAC address etc
If you've ever looked at SSH server logs you know what I'm about to say: Any SSH server connected to the public Internet is getting bombarded by constant attempts to log in. Not just a few of them. A lot of them. Sometimes even dozens per second. And this problem is not going away; it is, in fact, getting worse. And attackers' behavior is changing.
The graph attached to this post shows the number of attempted SSH logins per day to one of @cloudlab s clusters over a four-year period. It peaks at about 3.4 million login attempts per day.
This is part of a study we did on our production system, using logs of more than 640 million login attempts, covering more than 1,500 hosts on our side and observing more than 840 thousand incoming IP addresses.
A paper presenting our analysis and a new, highly effective means to block SSH brute force attacks ("Where The Wild Things Are: Brute-Force SSH Attacks In The Wild And How To Stop Them") will be presented next week at #NSDI24 by @sachindhke . The full paper is at https://www.flux.utah.edu/paper/singh-nsdi24
First things first: everyone "knows" that most brute force attacks are against the "root" account, right? This is certainly what earlier studies have found.
As it turns out, this used to be true, but it's not anymore. This graph shows that the fraction of brute force attacks using the username root was nearly 100% back in 2017, but it's been falling - by mid-2021, only around 20% off the attacks we saw were against root.
So, why? Well, we don't have a hotline to the attackers, but we have an educated guess from our own data and from many others' reporting: a lot of the usernames we see correspond to default usernames for #network#routers, specific #Linux distributions, specific server software, and #IoT devices. Basically, as we connect ever more stuff to the Internet (and generally try to protect the "root" account), attackers seem to be diversifying the accounts they are going after.
(There's a table of the top 100 usernames in the paper.)
UK folks, anybody gone #5G sim based broadband? Any opinions on #routers. Friend in a rural area has great 5G signal but dreadful Internet over the phone line and fibre is years away. What kit will work well for a family of non tech folks?
House has a games console, iPads, Netflix TV etc.
How to keep your home network secure: Smart tricks and settings
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🛜 OpenWrt developers consider launching their first hardware design
ᐅ @liliputing
「 Now some of the developers behind the project have put together a proposal for the first hardware designed specifically for OpenWrt, with full upstream Linux support. It would be called OpenWrt One/AP-24.XY, and the goal is to produce a router board that would sell for less than $100 」
It's been [1] days since I fixed a (multi-year) "slow Internet" problem than both the ISP installing the line, and "computer guy" selling the router and access points have completely ignored by… replacing a cable.
My mother in law has a 500Mbit FTTH connection, but the ONT was connected to the router with a 8p4c (yes) cat 5 Ethernet cable. I realized that as soon as a speed test showed 90/90 results.
📨 Latest issue of my curated #cybersecurity and #infosec list of resources for week #39/2023 is out! It includes the following and much more:
➝ 🔓 #GitHub repos bombarded by info-stealing commits masked as #Dependabot
➝ 🇯🇵 💸 #Sony Investigating After Hackers Offer to Sell Stolen Data
➝ 🔓 #BORN Ontario child registry #databreach affects 3.4 million people
➝ 🇭🇰 🔓 Personal data of 25,000 Hongkongers at risk after #cyberattack against consumer watchdog, up from earlier estimate of 8,000
➝ 🇺🇸 🔓 National Student Clearinghouse data breach impacts 890 #schools
➝ 🇨🇦 ✈️ #AirCanada discloses data breach of employee and 'certain records'
➝ 🇰🇵 🇪🇸 North Korean hackers posed as #Meta recruiter on #LinkedIn
➝ 👥 ShadowSyndicate: A New #Cybercrime Group Linked to 7 #Ransomware Families
➝ 🇷🇺 ✈️ Russian flight booking system suffers ‘massive’ cyberattack
➝ 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 Chinese hackers stole emails from US State Dept in #Microsoft breach, Senate staffer says
➝ 🇨🇳 Chinese Hackers TAG-74 Targets South Korean Organizations in a Multi-Year Campaign
➝ 🇺🇦 🚀 Ukrainian Military Targeted in Phishing Campaign Leveraging #Drone Manuals
➝ 🥷🏻 💰 Hackers steal $200M from #crypto company #Mixin
➝ 🇳🇬 ⚖️ Nigerian man pleads guilty to attempted $6 million BEC email heist
➝ 🇺🇸 ⚖️ ShinyHunters member pleads guilty to $6 million in data theft damages
➝ 🇨🇳 #China-Linked Budworm Targeting Middle Eastern #Telco and Asian Government Agencies
➝ 🇨🇳 🚪 Backdoored firmware lets China state hackers control #routers with “magic packets”
➝ 🇺🇸 👮🏻♂️Security researcher warns of chilling effect after feds search phone at #airport
➝ 🦠 ❗️FBI Warns Organizations of Dual Ransomware, Wiper Attacks
➝ 🤖 🦠 #Bing Chat responses infiltrated by ads pushing #malware
➝ 🏥 🎣 Red Cross-Themed #Phishing Attacks Distributing DangerAds and AtlasAgent Backdoors
➝ 🥷🏻 🐍 #SSH keys stolen by stream of malicious #PyPI and #npm packages
➝ 🏦 🎠 New Variant of #Banking#Trojan BBTok Targets Over 40 Latin American Banks
➝ 🦠 🚪 #Deadglyph: New Advanced Backdoor with Distinctive Malware Tactics
➝ 🚀 #Sysdig Launches Realtime Attack Graph for Cloud Environments
➝ 🐛 📨 Critical vulnerabilities in #Exim threaten over 250k #email servers worldwide
➝ 🔓 Progress warns of maximum severity WS_FTP Server vulnerability
➝ 🩹 🔥 #Google fixes fifth actively exploited Chrome zero-day of 2023
➝ 🩹 🍏 #macOS 14 #Sonoma Patches 60 #Vulnerabilities
➝ 🩹 🦊 #Firefox 118 Patches High-Severity Vulnerabilities
➝ 🤫 ✅ Google quietly corrects previously submitted disclosure for critical #webp 0-day
➝ 👀 🇪🇬 0-days exploited by commercial surveillance vendor in #Egypt
📚 This week's recommended reading is: "Philosophy of Cybersecurity" by @LukaszOlejnik and Artur Kurasinski
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ESET Research Report: How I could’ve stolen your corporate secrets for $100
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Does anyone know why, after rebooting, it takes so long for a Virgin Media router to offer a stable wifi connection?
I've got 2 home networks on ours. They both come and go intermittently during the reboot cycle. As if it initialises them several times, with the more secure network being the flakiest.