Heimadal Security

JUNE 24, 2021

cloud security analysts were searching through Amazon Web Services’ Route53 Domain Name Service (DNS) when they noticed all of a sudden that its self-service domain registration system allowed them to create a new hosted zone with the same name as the authentic AWS name server it was utilizing. Earlier this year, Wiz.io

DNS 54

DNS Government Authentication Cybersecurity 54

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

In July 2018, email users around the world began complaining of receiving spam which began with a password the recipient used at some point in the past and threatened to release embarrassing videos of the recipient unless a bitcoin ransom was paid. That’s according to Ron Guilmette , a dogged anti-spam researcher.

DNS 230

DNS Internet Internet Computers and Electronics 230

SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

The company’s Orion IT, a solution for monitoring and managing customers’ IT infrastructure, was compromised. For four years, the Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) at Kaspersky has been publishing quarterly summaries of advanced persistent threat (APT) activity. Hopefully, further analysis will make things clearer.

Malware 139

Malware Spyware Government Social Engineering 139

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 140

Malware Government Surveillance Spyware 140