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DNS over HTTPS, DNS over TLS explained: Encrypting DNS traffic

CSO Magazine

Being the backbone of the internet, the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol has undergone a series of improvements and enhancements over the past few years. To read this article in full, please click here (Insider Story)

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China-Linked APT15 group is using a previously undocumented backdoor

Security Affairs

APT15 has been active since at least 2010, it conducted cyber espionage campaigns against targets worldwide in several industries, including the defense, high tech, energy, government, aerospace, and manufacturing. Once executed the command the backdoor returns output through DNS.

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Previously undocumented Aoqin Dragon APT targets entities in Southeast Asia and Australia

Security Affairs

Other techniques employed by the APT group include DLL hijacking, Themida-packed files, and DNS tunneling to evade post-compromise detection. Between 2012 and 2015, the Aoqin Dragon actors heavily relied on exploits for CVE-2012-0158 and CVE-2010-3333 vulnerabilities. The loader will check the file path first and decrypt the payloads.

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Ramnit is back and contributes in creating a massive proxy botnet, tracked as ‘Black’ botnet

Security Affairs

Ramnit is one of the most popular banking malware families in existence today, it was first spotted in 2010 as a worm, in 2011, its authors improved it starting from the leaked Zeus source code turning the malware into a banking Trojan. The second STAGE-1 C&C server is used for controlling malware via an encrypted connection.

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Is India's Aadhaar System Really "Hack-Proof"? Assessing a Publicly Observable Security Posture

Troy Hunt

We are rapidly approaching a "secure by default" web and the green padlock is becoming the norm ( about two thirds of all browser traffic is now encrypted ). A great resource for getting a quick snapshot of how a site implements their SSL / TLS / HTTPS ("encryption of traffic", for the masses) is SSL Labs.

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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. 2010 — The Stuxnet Worm — A malicious computer virus called the world’s first digital weapon is able to target control systems used to monitor industrial facilities.

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Best Network Monitoring Tools for 2022

eSecurity Planet

AES-256 encryption for data at rest and TLS v1.2 Founded in 2010 by veteran SaaS and DevOps industry leaders, Datadog specializes in optimizing the service-oriented architecture, helping organizations monitor user journeys and explore service relationships. Auvik Features. Catchpoint Features. LogicMonitor.

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