"Like other major #telcos, #Lumen, formerly called #CenturyLink, has been upgrading its security and threat intelligence capabilities over the last few years. It named Jason Lish as Chief Security Officer this past April, after rebranding its cybersecurity efforts under the name Black Lotus Labs in 2019. The month before this most recent attack, the Black Lotus team found evidence of a 'watering hole' attack."
#BlackLotus
https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/lumen-s-black-lotus-labs-uncovers-hacktivist-attack

#CenturyLink evolves its #baremetal compute services
"Bare metal servers, also known as white box servers or common-off-the-shelf servers, provide compute resources with no virtualization layer or operating system on top. Users can take the server hardware and put whatever operating system they want on top.

For example, companies such as Packet, which was bought by Equinix earlier this year, provide the orchestration & management software to automate bare metal servers."
https://www.fiercetelecom.com/operators/centurylink-evolves-its-bare-metal-compute-services