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Darktrace Blog
Company blog · darktrace.com/blogsecurity
Darktrace Blog is the company blog at darktrace.com, writing about security. Since 2018, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts from a cybersecurity company's blog on incidents such as the casino fish-tank thermometer breach, cited in HN threads on security topics. Commenters mostly cite them for their facts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Darktrace AI interrupts in-progress cyber-attacks in seconds, including ransomware, email phishing, and threats to cloud environments and critical infrastructure.
What Hacker News says?
There's also the risk that VS Code is a "trusted" application in many enterprises because developers force it to be. VS Code's node runtime (and plugin system) executing somewhat arbitrary Javascript means that any dev servers become vulnerable to exploits you otherwise might not have prepared to defend against [1]. Otherwise, you could see Javascript running on a server and instantly know something was odd, dependi…
Comment linking /blog/darktrace-identifies-campaign-targeting-south-korea-leveraging-vs-code-for-remote-access
on “VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)”Submitted The Growing Threat of Docusign Phishing Attacks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe original source[1] claims that the casino did take some precautions (a VPN) but still doesn't clearly explain how the failure occurred: "A North American casino recently installed a high-tech fish tank as a new attraction, with advanced sensors that automatically regulate temperature, salinity, and feeding schedules. To ensure these communications remained separate from the commercial network, the casino configu…
Comment linking /resources/wp-global-threat-report-2017.pdf
on “Casino high-roller database stolen through a thermometer in the lobby fish tank”Submitted Post-mortem: Financial firm breached via unpatched SQL Server as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI studied the photo to see if I could spot the Internet-connected thermometer, and then finally noticed that the caption said "Ethan Miller/Getty Images", and only after that saw that it also said, "An aquarium at a casino — not the one in question." Forbes who wrote an earlier story did the same thing, but with a Shutterstock photo[1]. At least the original source of the story (the cyber defense company) used an il…
Comment linking /resources/wp-global-threat-report-2017.pdf
on “Casino high-roller database stolen through a thermometer in the lobby fish tank”Air-gapped, the only way to go. https://www.welivesecurity.com/2021/12/01/jumping-air-gap-15... There are still several vectors even with the top security clearance procedures. They routinely miss things at security checkpoints. “Even a perfect air gap will be vulnerable to a variety of different attack vectors, including (but not limited to) the following: Physical compromise: An adversary bypasses physical securit…
Comment linking /blog/why-the-air-gap-is-not-enough
on “Nation state backdoor found in Cisco firewalls (again..?) [video]”