Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The Linux.org website was defaced last week via DNS hijack, attackers breached into associated registrar account and changed the DNS settings. The defacement page also includes links and a Twitter account (@kitlol5) believed to be under the control of the attacker. DNS was simply pointing to another box.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2020

The Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck announced that threat actors have accessed their account at the Oname.com domain registrar and hijacked one of its domain names. ” According to the Japanese security expert Masafumi Negishi, threat actors modified the primary DNS entry for the coincheck.com domain. ????????????

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The popular encrypted email service Tutanota was hit with a series of DDoS attacks this week targeting its website fist and its DNS providers later. Encrypted email service, Tutanota suffered a series of DDoS attacks that initially targeted the website and later its DNS providers. “As a result these providers went down.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2020

Linksys has reset passwords for all its customers’ after learning on ongoing DNS hijacking attacks aimed at delivering malware. Hackers compromise D-Link and Linksys routers and change DNS settings to redirect users to bogus sites proposing a fake COVID-19 information app from the World Health Organization. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

HYAS said it quickly notified the French national computer emergency team and the FBI about its findings, which pointed to a dynamic domain name system (DNS) provider on which the purveyors of this attack campaign relied for their various malware servers. There is a third Skype account nicknamed “Fatal.001”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

In December 2017, the popular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta was hacked, attackers conducted a DNS attack that allowed to steal at least 308 ETH ($266,789 at the time of the hack) as well as a large number of tokens. Clearly the access to the CEO account allowed the hacker to breach the company. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2020

Hackers compromiseD -Link and Linksys routers and change DNS settings to redirect users to bogus sites proposing a fake COVID-19 information app from the World Health Organization. Experts from BleepingComputer reported that attackers would change the configured DNS servers to 109 [. 234.35.230 and 94 [. 103.82.249. com winimage.com.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the owner of Defiant Tech, a 32-year-old Ontario man named Jordan Evan Bloom , was hired in late 2014 as a developer for the marital infidelity site AshleyMadison.com. us , a site unabashedly dedicated to helping people hack email and online gaming accounts. pleaded guilty to running LeakedSource[.]com

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

Trend Micro investigated waves of the APT28’s targeted credential phishing attacks and collected thousands of email samples sent out by the group since 2014. The group was observed using this scheme between 2019 and 2020, and according to the experts, most of the compromised email accounts belong to defense companies in the Middle East.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2020

Let’s consider mybrowser.microsoft.com, it might have resolved by the DNS to something like webserver9000.azurewebsites.net. But experts discovered that Microsoft did not take care of DNS entries for the sub-domains that for some reason it stops to update. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2023

Gamaredon has been active since 2014 and its activity focus on Ukraine, the group was observed using the multistage backdoor Pteranodon / Pterodo. The cyberspies often use accounts that have been previously compromised. ini), which will contain the hash sums of the stolen files (taking into account some meta-data).

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2019

But when accounts at those CRM providers get hacked or phished, the results can be damaging for both the client’s brand and their customers. Salesforce told KrebsOnSecurity that this was not a compromise of Pardot, but of a Pardot customer account that was not using multi-factor authentication.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

As detailed in my 2014 book, Spam Nation , Spamdot was home to crooks controlling some of the world’s nastiest botnets, global malware contagions that went by exotic names like Rustock , Cutwail , Mega-D , Festi , Waledac , and Grum. bank accounts. I can not provide DNS for u, only domains. The domain wmpay.ru

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Malwarebytes

MAY 10, 2022

Also known as OilRig/COBALT GYPSY/IRN2/HELIX KITTEN, APT34 is an Iranian threat group that has targeted Middle Eastern countries and victims worldwide since at least 2014. Calls the “eNotif’ function which is used to send a notification of each steps of macro execution to its server using the DNS protocol.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2019

Lyceum was observed using password spraying and brute-force attacks to compromise email accounts of targeted individuals. “LYCEUM initially accesses an organization using account credentials obtained via password spraying or brute-force attacks. The malware uses DNS and HTTP-based communication mechanisms.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

guru’s registration records also are hidden, yet passive domain name system (DNS) records for both cryptor[.]biz Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 reports that obelisk57@gmail.com was used to register an account on the forum Blacksoftware under the nickname “ Kerens.” .” Crypt[.]guru’s biz and crypt[.]guru

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2019

Attackers hacked support agent to access Microsoft Outlook email accounts. Gnosticplayers round 5 – 65 Million+ fresh accounts from 6 security breaches available for sale. Gnosticplayers round 5 – 65 Million+ fresh accounts from 8 security breaches available for sale. Analyzing OilRigs malware that uses DNS Tunneling.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

One million cracked Poshmark accounts being sold online. Some Zyxel devices can be hacked via DNS requests. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Crooks stole €1.5 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

Agent Tesla is a well-known data stealer written in.NET that has been active since 2014 and is perhaps one of the most popular payloads observed in malspam campaigns. pw accounts, various scams). Based on these profiles, we can see this threat actor has an extensive criminal record starting at least from 2014. Test successful!

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Google Security

MAY 25, 2023

Google Trust Services now offers our ACME API to all users with a Google Cloud account (referred to as “users” here), allowing them to automatically acquire and renew publicly-trusted TLS certificates for free. The ACME API is free and available to anyone with a Google Cloud account. How do I use it? Please see the Public CA Tutorial.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

According to FireEye, APT34 has been active since 2014. Jason is a graphic tool implemented to perform Microsoft exchange account brute-force in order to “harvest” the highest possible emails and accounts information. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Original Leak.

Computers and Electronics 81

Computers and Electronics Penetration Testing DNS Passwords 81

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

change DNS settings to hijack the traffic, perform MitM attacks). This could allow an attacker to access the ISP account or the router itself if they admins reused the same credentials.” An attacker-controlled router can manipulate how your users resolve DNS hostnames to direct your users to malicious websites.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2019

It allows users using web browsers to set up user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – Webmin, hacking).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2019

Alleged Iran-linked APT groups behind global DNS Hijacking campaign. Reddit locked Down accounts due to alleged security breach. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2020

Our findings show that both Telenor and MPT block websites using DNS tampering. MPT is ignoring the DNS requests to the blocked domains, while Telenor is redirecting them to an IP address outside of the country. The mail account hostmaster@urlblocked.pw, published as contact details in DNS, bounces all incoming mails.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

It allows users using web browsers to set up user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” reads the analysis. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2019

The threat actors use the.bit Top-Level Domain (TLD) for the Domain Name System (DNS) servers. bit” C&C domains was added to protect the C2 infrastructure, this TLD is associated with the cryptocurrency Namecoin and requires special DNS servers that the malware uses (dedsolutions[.]bit, ” continues Proofpoint. bit, arepos[.]bit).null.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

OilRig Description : According to MITRE , OilRig is a threat group with suspected Iranian origins that has targeted Middle Eastern and international victims since at least 2014. Indeed during the group_a, the main observed delivery techniques where about Phishing (rif.T1193) and Valid Accounts (rif.T1078). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2019

. “Most recently, Necurs has been seen pushing out infostealers and RATs, like AZOrult and FlawedAmmyy , to targeted hosts based on specific information found on infected hosts and deploying a new sophisticated.NET spamming module which can send spam using a victim’s email accounts.” ” continues the blog post.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Other interesting function is “j2aYhH”: Figure 8 – Accounts and emails stealing. This function searches for all email accounts registered on victim machine. Last DNS activity was in December 2018. Figure 14 – previous DNS of C2. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2018

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

The unwanted behavior was spotted by a security researcher that goes online with Twitter account Privacy 1st , he discovered that Adware Doctor would gather browsing history from the Safari, Chrome, and the Firefox browsers, the search history on the App Store, and a list of running processes. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2019

malware was used by threat actors to establish a backdoor in MSSQL Server 11 and 12 servers, allowing them to access to any account on the server using a “magic password.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2020

At the time of the report, the threat actor carried out a cyber espionage campaign by redirecting DNS traffic from domains owned by the Lebanon government to target entities in the country. The Group likely exploited or brute-forced a Lebanon related mail account with another tool of its arsenal, the JASON tool. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

During that wave, we also observed OilRig leveraging additional compromised email accounts at the same government organization to send spear phishing emails delivering the OopsIE trojan as the payload instead of QUADAGENT.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2020

At the time of the report, the threat actor carried out a cyber espionage campaign by redirecting DNS traffic from domains owned by the Lebanon government to target entities in the country. The Group likely exploited or brute-forced a Lebanon related mail account with another tool of its arsenal, the JASON tool. Pierluigi Paganini.

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