Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2019

The campaign uncovered by Avast aimed at silently modifying the Brazilian users’ Domain Name System (DNS) settings to redirect victims to malicious websites mimicking legitimate ones. ” reads a blog post published by Avast. Most recently, Netflix became a popular domain for DNS hijackers.” concludes Avast.

DNS 73

DNS Passwords Advertising Banking 73

Google Security

DECEMBER 1, 2022

From 2019 to 2022 the annual number of memory safety vulnerabilities dropped from 223 down to 85. From 2019 to 2022 it has dropped from 76% down to 35% of Android’s total vulnerabilities. We’ve migrated VM firmware in the Android Virtualization Framework to Rust. There are approximately 1.5

DNS 145

DNS Accountability Firmware Risk 145

SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

MoonBounce: the dark side of UEFI firmware. Late last year, we became aware of a UEFI firmware-level compromise through logs from our firmware scanner (integrated into Kaspersky products at the start of 2019). Targeted attacks. Since 2018, we have been tracking Roaming Mantis – a threat actor that targets Android devices.

Phishing 115

Phishing Spyware Firmware Malware 115

SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security) protocol is used to establish secure connections over UDP, through which most DNS queries, as well as audio and video traffic, are sent. After the attacks came to light, the manufacturer promptly released a firmware update for configuring verification of incoming requests. Statistics.

DDOS 134

DDOS Cryptocurrency Marketing Internet 134

SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

On March 1, ESET published a blog post related to wipers used in Ukraine and to the ongoing conflict: in addition to HermeticWiper, this post introduced IsaacWiper, used to target specific machines previously compromised with another remote administration tool named RemCom, commonly used by attackers for lateral movement within compromised networks.

Malware 135

Malware Firmware Government Phishing 135

SecureList

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In June, more than six months after DarkHalo had gone dark, we observed the DNS hijacking of multiple government zones of a CIS member state that allowed the attacker to redirect traffic from government mail servers to computers under their control – probably achieved by obtaining credentials to the control panel of the victims’ registrar.

Malware 143

Malware Government Surveillance Spyware 143