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Infoblox

Infoblox is a networking and security company known for DNS, DHCP, and IP management tools, and for its threat intelligence research into DNS-based attacks.

Known aliases

  • Infoblox Threat Intel

Current stories

securityOne report1 publisher

Infoblox traces Help TDS tech support scams to Hotejka, an apparent ROI777 rebrand

Infoblox ties the Help TDS traffic distribution system, active since at least 2017, to a Russian-language affiliate program called Hotejka. The Hacker News reports the scams run on more than 20,000 Cloudflare Pages domains and aim to put remote desktop tools on victims' machines.

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption50
Hype gap+10
Incentives45
Confidence62
productOne report1 publisher

Google paid up to triple the going rate for fiber that routes around the Red Sea

Google paid two to three times the roughly 6 million euro going rate for backup fiber across Turkey, according to a person familiar with the deal. Most Europe-Asia cloud traffic still crosses the contested Red Sea strait, so the premium buys a route for the day a cable breaks.

Publishers:restofworld.org

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption35
Hype gap+15
Incentives55
Confidence45
buildOne report1 publisher

Synthient wants residential proxy flags on IPs to carry a provider and a timestamp

Synthient says residential proxy traffic it observed in May 2026 touched about 9.2 million domains through household IPs that real users also share. Its answer is to timestamp each proxy sighting and set friction by what the session is trying to do.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives85
Confidence45
securityConfirmed4 publishers

Ten cents a call: Activation Lock bypass now ships with its own voice agent

SOCRadar's teardown of the AnonyMousKIT service found 200 AI-voiced calls at about $0.10 each, most of them to Brazil. The skill in phone social engineering is now a script file.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 19%
Operator
Operator 76%
Investor
Investor 5%

Reality

Evidence70
Adoption40
Hype gap+35
Incentives40
Confidence65
securityConfirmed6 publishers

FBI seizes NightmareStresser again, three years after the brand's first takedown

The Justice Department seized this service's original domain in December 2022 and arrested six people. The FBI has now taken two more of its domains, and the warrant affidavit counts hundreds of thousands of attacks since 2022.

Perspective Coverage

6 publishers
Builder
Builder 18%
Operator
Operator 74%
Investor
Investor 8%

Reality

Evidence70
Adoption60
Hype gap+25
Incentives40
Confidence70
leadershipConfirmed4 publishers

Stolen infrared and UV scans put the document check itself inside the IDScan.net breach

IDScan.net is notifying people about names and ID numbers and offering credit monitoring, while the records Brian Krebs examined each carried infrared and ultraviolet captures, the layer that document authentication actually tests.

Publishers:fox8live.com krebsonsecurity.com nola.com techtimes.com

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 22%
Operator
Operator 59%
Investor
Investor 19%

Reality

Evidence82
Adoption68
Hype gap+12
Incentives55
Confidence76
securityOne report1 publisher

GTA VI leak: extortion leverage moves from the regulator to the fanbase

CyberLeek's drip-feed of stolen footage carries no notification clock. Take-Two's answer has been DMCA subpoenas, and researchers read the case as an insider threat investigation.

Publishers:cyberscoop.com

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption45
Hype gap+22
Incentives68
Confidence48
securityOne report1 publisher

A free graph of ads.txt now shows which data brokers your own site authorised

DecryptAds cross-references ads.txt, app-ads.txt and sellers.json into one searchable view. In ESPN's files it counts 143 ad partners and 19 registered data broker domains.

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption20
Hype gap+18
Incentives70
Confidence55