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On September 4, Rapid7 Labs published research on a Linux espionage toolkit found at two organizations in South Korea. The centerpiece is a backdoor the researchers call "Ted," which was hidden inside a modified HAProxy build running on the victims' load balancers. Rapid7 attributes the campaign to North Korean state-sponsored actors with medium confidence. The same toolkit tampered with multiple tools across the victims' systems, including an SSH keylogger.

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Why does the VPN work for most of the company while one branch office, or a handful of remote staff, reports that it won't connect or crawls the moment they sign in? The difficulty with VPN troubleshooting is that the tunnel relies on every layer below it. If the laptop, home Wi-Fi, internet route, gateway, or security policy on either end misbehaves, the connection suffers. One complaint about a slow file share could originate at any of those points.

If your network has been feeling sluggish, connections keep dropping, or you're getting alerts that don't point to an obvious cause, high bandwidth usage is one of the most common culprits and one of the hardest to pin down without the right visibility. The tricky part is that "slow network" can mean a dozen different things depending on where the congestion is actually happening.

India is the world's fourth-largest economy and accelerating fast. Here's why it should be on your network roadmap. Few markets combine scale, speed, and government intent the way India does right now. With a digital economy on track to reach USD $1 trillion by 2030, hyperscalers committing tens of billions in fresh investment, and connectivity infrastructure undergoing a generational upgrade, India has become one of the most consequential expansion decisions a technology business can make.

Improvements to the Progress Flowmon product family continue, and we are pleased to announce the release of Flowmon 13.1. The latest 13.1 release builds on the strong foundations we laid in Flowmon 13. Headline enhancements include a rebuilt visualization layer, automated investigation workflows and a set of AI-assisted capabilities in the Flowmon Anomaly Detection System (ADS). And the Flowmon team is eager to share how your team can utilize these new capabilities.

Users report that an internal application has gone slow, the server dashboards look normal, and the network group says nothing changed on their side. So where between the user and the application does the time actually go? Much of that answer comes from traceroute. The command lists every router a packet crosses on the way to its destination, with a timing figure set against each one. Arguments about ownership then come down to a single device on a single route.