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A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks

Krebs on Security

government — along with a number of leading security companies — recently warned about a series of highly complex and widespread attacks that allowed suspected Iranian hackers to siphon huge volumes of email passwords and other sensitive data from multiple governments and private companies. PASSIVE DNS.

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Phish of GoDaddy Employee Jeopardized Escrow.com, Among Others

Krebs on Security

PT Monday evening, Escrow.com’s website looked radically different: Its homepage was replaced with a crude message in plain text: The profanity-laced message left behind by whoever briefly hijacked the DNS records for escrow.com. The attacker also obtained free encryption certificates for escrow.com from Let’s Encrypt.

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Best Internet Security Suites & Software for 2022

eSecurity Planet

Antivirus Software WiFi 6 Routers Virtual Private Networks Password Managers Email Security Software Web Application Firewall Bot Management Software. Scheduled scans Encryption Identity theft protection. DNS leak protection Kill switch No log policy. Password Managers. Antivirus Software.

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Does Your Domain Have a Registry Lock?

Krebs on Security

13, 2020, which was the date the fraudsters got around to changing the domain name system (DNS) settings for e-hawk.net. That alert was triggered by systems E-HAWK had previously built in-house that continually monitor their stable of domains for any DNS changes. Dijkxhoorn said his company first learned of the domain theft on Jan.

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2024 State of Cybersecurity: Reports of More Threats & Prioritization Issues

eSecurity Planet

Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches. 583% increase in Kerberoasting [password hash cracking] attacks. 64% of managers and higher admit to poor password practices.

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Intercepting MFA. Phishing and Adversary in The Middle attacks

Pen Test Partners

Therefore, before repacking the credentials back up in TLS encryption, the proxy server has full sight of them from the victim. Here is a basic demo I created to show credential captures from a locally running proxy: Evilginx works by hosting its own DNS server and automatically creating all TLS certificates needed using the Let’sEncrypt API.

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Best Ransomware Removal Tools

eSecurity Planet

Free Kaspersky Password Manager Premium. Bank-grade encryption to help keep information like passwords and personal details secure. Password management that stores and manages passwords, credit card information and other credentials. This tool identifies which ransomware has encrypted the data.