Packets, Please #01 - Breaches Please.

Welcome to the first issue of "Packets, Please". In this issue, we discuss;

• Breaches that affected CloudFlare, Palo Alto and ZScaler
• CloudFlare blocking a 11.5Tbps DDoS attack
• Juniper Networks acquisition being cleared
• and much more..

Art of Infra's Posts This Week

Proxmox Cheat sheet - General Commands

We’ve created a handy list and PDF cheat sheet of the most useful Proxmox VE CLI commands covering VMs, containers, firewall, backups, and more. Yours to keep as a quick reference for everyday admin tasks.

Art of InfraDan Jones

What are Reverse Proxies?

Discover how a reverse proxy acts like a helpful doorman for your servers by improving security, handling traffic, off‑loading encryption, and making your site more resilient.

Art of InfraDan Jones

Top News You May Have Missed!

CloudFlare, Palo Alto & ZScaler Breached!

Cloudflare (to name one) confirmed that the Salesloft‑Drift breach allowed a threat actor (GRUB1) to exfiltrate support case data from its Salesforce instance, including customer contact details and possibly sensitive tokens or logs. While no Cloudflare services or infrastructure were compromised, they (CloudFlare) rotated the exposed API tokens and alerted affected customers.

The impact of the Salesloft Drift breach on Cloudflare and our customers

An advanced threat actor, GRUB1, exploited the integration between Salesloft’s Drift chat agent and Salesforce to gain unauthorized access to Salesforce tenants of Cloudflare and many other companies.

The Cloudflare BlogSourov Zaman

Cloudflare hit by data breach in Salesloft Drift supply chain attack

Cloudflare is the latest company impacted in a recent string of Salesloft Drift breaches, part of a supply-chain attack disclosed last week.

BleepingComputerSergiu Gatlan

CloudFlare (Not Breached!) Blocked a 11.5 Tbps DDoS Attack

Meta Signs $10 billion with Google Cloud

Meta signed a $10 billion, six-year contract with Google Cloud to support it's ever-expanding AI Infra needs.

Google strikes big win with $10 billion Meta cloud deal

As Meta continues its AI drive, the company is looking outside for the necessary infrastructure

IT ProEmma Woollacott

Huawei Open-source UB-Mesh Interconnect for AI Data Centres

cHuawei launched its UB-Mesh system, an open-source high-performance interconnect system designed to unify processor, memory, and networking communication in AI-scale data centres.

Huawei just revealed an ambitious UB-Mesh plan aiming to replace scattered standards in giant AI clusters powering global data centers

Huawei claims UB-Mesh lowers costs as system sizes rapidly expand

TechRadarEfosa Udinmwen

Unauthorised Issuance of TLS Certificates for 1.1.1.1 (CloudFlare, again)

Rogue TLS certificates were issued for 1.1.1.1 by a Cert Authority without permission from CloudFlare. Although these have now been revoked, this article is worth a read through to see how this could affect you.

Addressing the unauthorized issuance of multiple TLS certificates for 1.1.1.1

Unauthorized TLS certificates were issued for 1.1.1.1 by a Certification Authority without permission from Cloudflare. These rogue certificates have now been revoked. Read our blog to see how this could affect you.

The Cloudflare BlogJoe Abley

Juniper Networks Acquisition Cleared

The U.S. DOJ approved HPE’s acquisition of Juniper Networks after intervention from intelligence agencies, positioning the move as strategic in countering Huawei’s influence in AI-equipped networking.

HPE gets approval for $14B acquisition of Juniper, to defend AI networking edge against China’s Huawei — White House stepped in after agencies flagged national security concerns

The fight for AI continues.

Tom's HardwareHassam Nasir

Articles from the Community

Building out Simple Network Labs using Netlab

Suresh discusses how Netlab simplifies and speeds up building network labs.

Netlab - The Fastest Way to Build Network Labs

Netlab then takes care of creating the topology, assigning IP addresses, configuring routing protocols, and even pushing custom configs.

PacketswitchSuresh Vina

Automating Network Lab Tasks with ContainerLab, MCP & LLMs

Visnu describes how integrating an MCP server with ContainerLab and LLMs (via Claude) enables conversational control over network lab tasks.

Automating Network Lab Tasks with an MCP Server and LLM Assistance (Chapter 2)

Network engineers have many automation tools at their disposal today — from scripting with Python to fully-fledged orchestration platforms…

MediumVisnu R

Next Week (or so) from Art of Infra

• Setting up an AWS VPN tunnel with Unifi/ Ubiquiti
• Protecting your hosted services with CloudFlare
• Routing and Connectivity in AWS, Part 2 - A Guide for Network Engineers

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