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PlugX malware deleted from thousands of systems by FBI

Malwarebytes

PlugX has been around since at least 2008 but is under constant development. With control of the sinkhole, a specially configured DNS server can simply route the requests of the bots to a fake C2 server. We dont just report on threatswe remove them Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline.

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Patch Tuesday, Good Riddance 2020 Edition

Krebs on Security

Additionally, Microsoft released an advisory on how to minimize the risk from a DNS spoofing weakness in Windows Server 2008 through 2019. The critical bits reside in updates for Microsoft Exchange Server , Sharepoint Server , and Windows 10 and Server 2016 systems.

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Prioritize updates based on risk, not vendor ratings, experts warn after ‘important’ zero-day

SC Magazine

After Microsoft assigned an “important” rating to a zero-day vulnerability being exploited in the wild as part of this month’s Patch Tuesday, security experts are urging security teams to prioritize updates based on risk rather than vendor severity ratings. impacts Windows Server 2008 through 2019.

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Episode 233: Unpacking Log4Shell’s Un-coordinated Disclosure Chaos

The Security Ledger

Back in 2008, the late, great security researcher Dan Kaminsky discovered a serious security flaw in a ubiquitous Internet technology: the domain name system, or DNS. Vendors worldwide were able to take steps that largely mitigated the risk of attack before any details of the flaw became publicly known. .

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Google Public DNS’s approach to fight against cache poisoning attacks

Google Security

Tianhao Chi and Puneet Sood, Google Public DNS The Domain Name System (DNS) is a fundamental protocol used on the Internet to translate human-readable domain names (e.g., When a user enters a domain name in their browser, the DNS resolver (e.g. Google Public DNS). www.example.com) into numeric IP addresses (e.g.,

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Patch now! PrintNightmare over, MSHTML fixed, a new horror appears … OMIGOD

Malwarebytes

DNS elevation of privilege vulnerability. This vulnerability was listed as CVE-2021-36968 and affects systems running Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, SP2 and Windows 7 SP1. It exists due to an application that does not properly impose security restrictions in Windows DNS.

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

2002 – Internet Attack — By targeting the thirteen Domain Name System (DNS) root servers, a DDoS attack assaults the entire Internet for an hour. Gonzales is later involved in a string of hacking crimes, again stealing credit and debit card details, from around 2006 until he is arresting in 2008. billion dollars in damages.