Webroot

MAY 6, 2024

Keep all devices updated with the latest security patches, and use reputable antivirus solutions that can block suspicious downloads and identify malicious software. For businesses, this means implementing strong antivirus software, endpoint protection solutions, and regular software updates.

Antivirus 89

Antivirus Education Cyber threats Phishing 89

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Germany-based independent security evaluators AV-TEST found that HYAS Protect Protective DNS is the most effective operational resiliency solution on the market today to drive business continuity and continued operations. While businesses’ entire security stacks do matter, it’s impossible to stop all nefarious activity beforehand.

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DNS Architecture Marketing Cyber threats 69

Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2022

“Network telemetry can be used to detect anomalous DNS requests, and security tools such as antivirus and endpoint detection and response (EDR) should be statically linked to ensure they are not “infected” by userland rootkits.” Since the malware operates as a userland level rootkit, detecting an infection may be difficult.”

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Malware DNS Antivirus Passwords 142

Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2022

Please vote for Security Affairs as the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS Vote for me in the sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog” and others of your choice. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IoT DNS Antivirus DDOS 78

Webroot

JUNE 21, 2021

It may be as simple as the deployment of antivirus plus backup and recovery applications for your end users, or a more complex approach with security operations center (SOC) tools or managed response solutions coupled with network security tools such as DNS and Web filtering, network and endpoint firewalls, VPNs, backup and recovery and others.

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Backups DNS Ransomware Antivirus 119

Security Boulevard

MAY 17, 2023

Most of these steps could’ve been blocked with the aid of DNS protection. It was an old strain that would normally be detected by most antivirus and endpoint detection and response (EDR) vendors. There are still many opportunities to thwart an attack at the DNS level. The malware itself wasn’t particularly sophisticated, either.

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Data breaches DNS Malware Phishing 52

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 17, 2024

This blog post describes methods that SpecterOps consultants have researched to successfully circumvent this technology during offensive assessments. Antivirus Inspection Not all RBI products will prioritize this time factor.

DNS 64

DNS Penetration Testing Passwords Encryption 64

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Krebs wrote for The Washington Post between 1995 and 2009 before launching his current blog KrebsOnSecurity.com. Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp [link] — Schneier Blog (@schneierblog) August 1, 2019. " Instead of keeping DNS for most consumers at their ISP, the DoH providers now seize a Web usage goldmine.

Accountability 139

Accountability Cybersecurity Penetration Testing InfoSec 139

Security Boulevard

MARCH 3, 2023

MalVirt loaders use multiple techniques to evade detection by antivirus software, endpoint detection and response (EDR) software, and other common security tools. Next-gen protective DNS. So what is the missing layer of defense in this real-world scenario?

Phishing 59

Phishing DNS Malware Antivirus 59

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

Patrick Wardle by redirecting DNS resolution was able to capture the exfiltrated data: The history.zip file is exfiltrated to a remote to dscan.yelabapp.com that is hosted on Amazon AWS servers, but the analysis of the DNS entries confirms that it is administered by an entity in China. Antivirus”, and ‘Dr.

Adware 46

Adware DNS Malware Advertising 46

SecureList

APRIL 24, 2023

Introduction We introduced Tomiris to the world in September 2021, following our investigation of a DNS-hijack against a government organization in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Tomiris (Golang implant) Backdoor Golang Described in our original blog post. Some samples contain traces of Russian language.

Malware 95

Malware DNS Government Software 95

Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2019

Moreover, querying the services behind the latest associated DNS record the host responds with “403 Forbidden” message too, indicating the infrastructure may still be operative. Information about C2 and relative DNS. Technical details, including IoCs and Yara Rules, are available in the analysis published in the Yoroi blog.

Passwords 59

Passwords DNS Engineering Malware 59

Webroot

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

To sleep at night, MSPs feel they must enhance or expand their security offerings beyond the standard layers, like; firewalls, firewall filtering, active directory protocols, DNS Filtering and antivirus/malware detection. The post Fools Rush in: 5 Things MSPs Should Know Before Adopting EDR appeared first on Webroot Blog.

Insurance 69

Insurance Firewall Cybersecurity DNS 69

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

. “Based on the analysis of the available data, the entire network of Lord & Taylor and 83 Saks Fifth Avenue locations have been compromised,” the firm wrote in a blog post examining the breach. Evolving threats. Errors to avoid. Multi-factor authentication is also required for remote access.

Retail 52

Retail Encryption Malware Artificial Intelligence 52

Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2019

The installed payload actually is a Base64 encoded PE32 file, file-lessly stored within the registry hive to avoid antivirus detection. Also, the attacker behind this sample leans on the Dynamic DNS service “warzonedns.com”, pointing to the 213.183.58[.10 Figure 5: Final payload written in the registry key in base64 Format.

Malware 68

Malware Advertising DNS Antivirus 68

Fox IT

JUNE 2, 2020

The purpose of this blog post is to describe the functionality of the two components, the loader and the backdoor. The download process is the same with the previous variant, the loader resolves the command and control server IP address using a hardcoded list of DNS servers and then downloads the corresponding file. Identified DNS IPs.

Malware 48

Malware DNS Architecture Backups 48

SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

In November and December 2020, two public blog posts were published about this campaign. Although Lyceum still prefers taking advantage of DNS tunneling, it appears to have replaced the previously documented.NET payload with a new C++ backdoor and a PowerShell script that serve the same purpose. Other interesting discoveries.

Malware 141

Malware Spyware Government Social Engineering 141

ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. Years ago, I was the lead security software reviewer at ZDNet and then at CNET.

Software 52

Software Passwords Internet Internet 52

ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. Years ago, I was the lead security software reviewer at ZDNet and then at CNET.

Software 52

Software Passwords Internet Internet 52