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Glupteba botnet is back after Google disrupted it in December 2021

Security Affairs

The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since at least 2011, researchers estimated that the Glupteba botnet was composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world as of December 2021. We also recommend monitoring DNS logs and keeping the antivirus software up to date to help prevent a potential Glupteba infection.”

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Why Malware Crypting Services Deserve More Scrutiny

Krebs on Security

guru’s registration records also are hidden, yet passive domain name system (DNS) records for both cryptor[.]biz has been associated with the user Kerens on the Russian hacking forum Exploit from 2011 to the present day. .” The registration records for the website Cryptor[.]biz ” Crypt[.]guru’s biz and crypt[.]guru

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What is DKIM Email Security Technology? DKIM Explained

eSecurity Planet

A successful DKIM check also verifies ownership of the email by matching the organization in the “from” fields of the email with the DNS associated with the organization. DKIM Fundamentals The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) publishes full information on the DKIM and its standards, which were last updated in 2011.

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Infoblox ups integration across on-premises, cloud and remote office environments

SC Magazine

Visitors crowd a cloud computing presentation at the CeBIT technology trade fair on March 2, 2011 in Hanover, Germany. The combination of all three pieces of information runs on DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM) technology, which delivers this granular data to administrators so they can solve networking and security issues.

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Review: Can We Trust the Waterfox Browser? (Updated 2023)

Security Boulevard

Waterfox came into the browser scene in 2011, coming right out the box with official x64 support (a rarity among browsers at the time) and promoted itself as an "ethical browser." However, many things have changed in the browser landscape, and even the Waterfox project as whole since 2011. Nothing’s changed there.

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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. Malware actor publishes the address of the Bot-A in DNS (or using any other public channel).

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Top Trending CVEs of October 2022

NopSec

The vulnerability traces back to code released in 2011, which is a significant amount of time for a hashing algorithm to find its way into hundreds if not thousands of projects. I wouldn’t be surprised to see this vulnerability make an appearance in future trending CVEs.

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