Nearly 99,000 unique IP addresses interacted with APNIC’s honeynet in just one week, generating 173 million events across SSH, Telnet, SMB, VPN, web, and Android services. The results show that long-known botnets, weak credentials, and unpatched vulnerabilities continue to drive large-scale malicious activity across the Internet.
Vulnerability disclosures are rising sharply, but that does not mean risk is increasing. As AI-driven discovery floods defenders with more data but not more threats, success now depends on identifying what matters and acting faster.
Supporting an effective security community with a collaborative workshop on honeypots and threat hunting.
The Community Honeynet project continues to assist network engineers and security personnel in understanding their online adversaries. What’s next?
APNIC Senior Security Specialist Adli Wahid describes threats the APNIC Honeynet project has observed and how to mitigate them.
CERTs are a crucial pillar of cybersecurity in the Pacific, but they rely on support from teams inside other organizations.
The APNIC security team attended a variety of events last quarter, including the FIRST Cyber Threat Intelligence Summit and the AusCERT 2021 conference.
Its important to get the fundamentals right before considering what automation techniques you want to employ in your cybersecurity program.
The APNIC 50 FIRST TC sessions were one of many recent events attended by the security team.
Some reflections from conducting two virtual training sessions for network operators in Pakistan and Mongolia.
