Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Another interesting issue addressed by Microsoft with Microsoft February 2021 Patch Tuesday security updates is a Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-24078. “This patch fixes a bug in the Windows DNS Server that could allow remote code execution on affected systems.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Cybercriminals are constantly crawling the web for targets, and they’ll often go after websites you might not expect, such as a vegan cooking blog. Joe’s Vegan Blog Cooks Up Comment Spam. Joe is the founder of a widely popular vegan food blog. Why would cybercriminals be interested in hacking a vegan food blog?

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Restoring all infected endpoints from secure backups, eliminating the use of local administrator accounts, and implementing application and DNS filtering to control software usage and web access. Changing all administrative and local passwords three times to fortify security.

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Webroot

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

A multi-layered approach that includes email security, DNS filtering, endpoint protection, and backup and recovery is essential to mitigating risk and exposure from attacks. The post OpenText Security Solutions 2022 Global SMB Ransomware Survey: Fighting More… with Less appeared first on Webroot Blog.

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Webroot

JANUARY 26, 2022

A defense in depth security posture utilizing DNS and endpoint detection as well as a sound backup strategy can give you confidence that you’re prepared to withstand even a successful phishing attack. The post Report: Phishing Attacks Sustain Historic Highs appeared first on Webroot Blog. Download the IDG report.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2019

this blog) will follow as soon as possible. Unfortunately, users that have no backups of their encryption keys will be not able to read their previous conversations. “The rebuilt infrastructure itself is secure, however, and the DNS issue has been solved without further abuse.

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Cisco Security

MAY 24, 2021

million ransom and spending a long week restoring backups, Colonial was able to resume operations. Enforce security at the DNS layer. Cisco Umbrella analyses DNS queries to block requests to malicious domains, suspicious files or direct IP connections from command-and-control callbacks. Have backups ready. Twitter.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 17, 2024

This blog post describes methods that SpecterOps consultants have researched to successfully circumvent this technology during offensive assessments. This can be accomplished in a couple of different ways depending on the capabilities and configuration of the RBI implementation using either DNS C2 or Third-Party C2.

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Webroot

MAY 25, 2021

Be sure to choose vendors who provide the type of guidance, support, and enablement resources you need; who can and will advise you on how best to configure your cybersecurity and backup and disaster recovery systems; and who are invested in helping you ensure maximum return on the investment you and your customers are making in these solutions.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

McAfee customers are protected from the malware/tools described in this blog. A more detailed blog with specific recommendations on using the McAfee portfolio and integrated partner solutions to defend against this attack can be found here. The hardcoded 208.67.222.222 resolves to a legitimate OpenDNS DNS server.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2022

The enterprise software and cloud giant said in a blog post this week that during the last six months of the year, there was a 40 percent increase in the number of DDoS attacks worldwide over the first half of 2021, with an average of 1,955 attacks per day and a maximum of 4,296 on Aug. Two Other Big DDoS Attacks.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 4, 2022

On September 15, 2021, the DNS records for acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org CA agility with flexibility to add and support backup CAs. You can read all about the key points of how ACME works in this blog. Today the protocol has become a standard ( RFC 8555 ). ACME v2 is the current version of the protocol, published in March 2018.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 12, 2022

The CA will issue challenges (DNS or HTTPS) requiring the agent to take an action that demonstrates control over said domain(s). In addition, ACME can make the process of choosing a backup CA a fairly easy one. For that reason, having a backup CA is always a good idea,” he explains in a blog of his. .

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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.

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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. If it exists, it validates if the current loaders file path is the same as the one that has already been set in the registry value’s data (BackUp Mgr). Identified DNS IPs. C&C IPs. 34.222.222[.]126. 71.191.52[.]192.

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SecureList

JUNE 15, 2022

There is access data to 2-3 domains of that network, the total number is 3-4, I don’t know exactly, see the screenshot below for DNS servers! There is access to a network, admin-level access, direct connection to SSH servers, access to backups. Blackmailer blog: auction price of stolen data. Screenshot translation.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

This research project covers the fingerprinting of Cobalt Strike servers and is described in Fox-IT blog “ Identifying Cobalt Strike team servers in the wild ”. Besides using the Cobalt Strike beacon, the adversary also searches for VPN and firewall configs, possibly to function as a backup access into the network.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2023

You decide to take a look at their DNS cache to get a list of internal resources the user has been browsing and as you look through the list, there are several that you recognize based on naming conventions. Introduction Let me paint a picture for you. One in particular might be interesting: Atlassian.

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Kali Linux

OCTOBER 12, 2022

This blog post will be a brief overview of how to get started using the web interface, setting up a trigger as well as installing additional packages found in Kali Linux. port=53 --secret=5672ddb107fe2f33e490a83e8d1036ca Creating DNS driver: domain = (null) host = 0.0.0.0 let’s put the information we have gained into practice.

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Fox IT

JUNE 23, 2020

Of course, these choices will also be heavily influenced by what we may term their ‘business model’ – which also means they should be able to disable or disrupt backup applications and related infrastructure. CobaltStrike C&C Domains. adsmarketart.com advancedanalysis.be CobaltStrike Beacon config. ptr SETTING_USERAGENT: Mozilla/5.0

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