Thread regarding Lumen Technologies layoffs

"They are restructuring and putting some security groups under BLL, calling them the Black Lotus Labs Security Group. It will make it easier to sell off if "Black Lotus Labs" is more than just some threat intelligence group which makes no money.
2 days ago by Anonymous | 1 reaction (+1/-0)
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Is that the plan by SLT, to sell off another piece of Lumen that is not making money? Makes sense.

They are restructuring and putting some security groups under BLL, calling them the Black Lotus Labs Security Group. It will make it easier to sell off if "Black Lotus Labs" is more than just some threat intelligence group which makes no money.

Lumen leadership is going crazy to look for stories to tell on the products and sales made. Every week get pressure from our direct leadership to come up and provide a good story to tell

"It's not impossible that a regulatory "defensive fee" or "clean sweep" charge could be implemented due to Lumen's IP and ability to prevent, protect and defend these attacks once fully implemented across networks in and out domestically.
16 hours ago by Anonymous | 2 reactions (+1/-1)
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More delusional thoughts Mr Anonymous. The Lumen Lotus Labs report has a bunch of bad info in it! The Lotus Labs forensics work was done via anecdotal methods and it took many many months to formulate an incomplete conclusion. There's 1,000 high-school groups out there who do the same type of analysis on incidents that happened long ago.

The units needed replacing because the end-users were simply just not savvy enough to follow instructions written for first graders. The units failed to boot, they were not bricked and could have been re-flashed by end user.

Again, it's just noise from Lotus Labs at this point. Lotus Labs is not preventing any attacks and it never will. It's nothing more than Lumen wasting bandwidth by publishing old useless info via PRNewswire. Windstream already knows what happened because FBI and NSA had already completed their investigations.

This came after October, so maybe they're accumulating data and building new learning models along the way.

This was huge no matter how you slice it.

https://cyberscoop.com/chinese-cyber-threats-fbi-operation-botnet/

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lumen-finds-and-disrupts-malicious-botnet-targeting-critical-networks-in-us-and-asia-302014128.html

It's not impossible that a regulatory "defensive fee" or "clean sweep" charge could be implemented due to Lumen's IP and ability to prevent, protect and defend these attacks once fully implemented across networks in and out domestically.

More color ORANGE on The Pumpkin Eclipse.

First, this campaign resulted in a hardware-based replacement of the affected devices, which likely indicates that the attacker corrupted the firmware on specific models. The event was unprecedented due to the number of units affected—no attack that we can recall has required the replacement of over 600,000 devices. In addition, this type of attack has only ever happened once before, with AcidRain used as a precursor to an active military invasion.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/mystery-malware-destroys-600000-routers-from-a-single-isp-during-72-hour-span/

Lest one forgets, they designed their own "router" in addition which imagine if that becomes "universal"?

https://news.lumen.com/2024-01-08-Lumen-is-first-in-the-industry-to-achieve-a-Wi-Fi-CERTIFIED-7-TM-device

F-in BS from Stansbury. The market is to believe Lumen has something big in the oven and the popper will come in fall? That's the same 'ol BS Lumen has been using for years, they always have something coming which is continually 5 years late to the playing field. Sorry to say Lumen Defender is junk and Lumen is again just wasting money. Share holders really need to stomach their loss and move that money into a Tech portfolio that will make money. Nobody should ever believe what the company execs are saying, just go read what the analysts say about Lumen. This applies to any company.

Lumen CFO comments to analyst, Greg Williams today:

Greg Williams

That's a great way of saying because there's a concern that maybe this AI, from a network perspective, there's like a sort of a two-year stint when you connect all the training data centers with new network then what, but to your point, you're going up the stack and you're providing solutions for multiple verticals that will…

Chris Stansbury

That's exactly right and we're doing it in a deeply embedded way in the network and in a very secure way and things like Black Lotus Labs allow us to bring a level of security around that, that others don't have.

On the innovation piece, by the fall, we will have launched Lumen Defender, which is our Black Lotus Labs based IP blocking a security product and we may be able to provide some color around that, but I think giving confidence to the market, not necessarily through an Investor Day, but certainly through an update on what we see coming on the free cash flow side is a starting point and then obviously providing more metrics around customer adoption on the innovation.

Chris Stansbury

I would say we're excited about two things in the near term. The first is again big connectivity deals. There's a lot of conversation going on right now across large enterprise and hyperscalers. The second is our security product. Black Lotus Labs is a unique asset that is ours and we blocked a nation-state threats since the beginning of the year. We see $200 billion net flows a day and we know who the bad guys are and continue to identify new ones.

So I think our ability to monetize that and bring value to enterprise near term is probably one of the faster to scale products you'll see.