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Who’s Behind the NetWire Remote Access Trojan?

Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2023

A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire , a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. NetWire has been sold openly on the same website since 2012: worldwiredlabs[.]com. org , also registered in 2012.

DNS

DNS Cybercrime Passwords Accountability

The Prevalence of DarkComet in Dynamic DNS

Security Boulevard

AUGUST 6, 2024

Threat Intelligence Report Date: August 6, 2024 Prepared by: David Brunsdon, Threat Intelligence - Security Engineer, HYAS Dynamic DNS (DDNS) is a service that automatically updates the Domain Name System (DNS) in real-time to reflect changes in the IP addresses of a domain.

DNS

DNS Malware Social Engineering Phishing

U.S. Indicts 2 Top Russian Hackers, Sanctions Cryptex

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The government believes the brains behind Joker’s Stash is Timur Kamilevich Shakhmametov , an individual who is listed in Russian incorporation documents as the owner of Arpa Plus , a Novosibirsk company that makes mobile games. ru , which periodically published hacking tools and exploits for software vulnerabilities.

Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency Cybercrime Retail Government

China-linked APT group Salt Typhoon compromised some U.S. internet service providers (ISPs)

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In August, Volexity researchers reported that a China-linked APT group, tracked as StormBamboo (aka Evasive Panda , Daggerfly , and StormCloud), successfully compromised an undisclosed internet service provider (ISP) in order to poison DNS responses for target organizations. The company linked the attacks to StormBamboo APT group.

Internet

Internet Internet DNS Telecommunications

A whirlwind adventure: Malwarebytes' 15-year journey in business cybersecurity

Malwarebytes

APRIL 6, 2023

Act I: Humble Beginnings (2008 - 2012) In the late 2000s, Malwarebytes tiptoed into the business sector with corporate licensing for its consumer anti-malware product. Malwarebytes added a DNS/Web Content Filtering Module and a Cloud Storage Scanning Module to the mix, rounding off a delectable buffet of cybersecurity enhancements.

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity Malware Cyber threats Small Business

WinDealer dealing on the side

SecureList

JUNE 2, 2022

In one case we investigated, we noticed that a signed executable qgametool.exe (MD5 f756083b62ba45dcc6a4d2d2727780e4 ), compiled in 2012, deployed WinDealer on a target machine. Full control over the DNS, meaning they can provide responses for non-existent domains.

Malware

Malware Encryption Social Engineering Telecommunications

Facebook May Have Gotten Hacked, and Maybe It’s Better We Don’t Know

Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

Mobile apps send user data to Facebook (even for non-Facebook users): A study by Privacy International showed that several Android apps, including Yelp, Duolingo, Indeed, the King James Bible app, Qibla Connect, and Muslim Pro all transmit users’ personal data back to Facebook.

Hacking

Hacking Data privacy Artificial Intelligence System Administration

10 Best CASB Security Vendors of 2022

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Deployment options by proxy or agents for Windows and macOS and mobile devices. Integration with enterprise mobility management (EMM) solutions for endpoint policies. First defined by Gartner in 2012, they add CASBs “ interject enterprise security policies as the cloud-based resources are accessed.”

Risk

Risk Firewall Authentication Encryption

Versa Unified SASE Review & Features 2023

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Founded in 2012, Versa Networks seeks to deploy a single software operating system, called VOS, to converge and integrate cloud and on-premises security, networking, and analytics. Who is Versa Networks? Using VOS, Versa enables customers and service providers to deploy SASE and software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solutions.

Firewall

Firewall Software Antivirus Internet

Padlocks, Phishing and Privacy; The Value Proposition of a VPN

Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Now let's try the mobile app: What's the encryption story there? What I do know is that years ago I reported a bug to ANZ about their mobile app having turned off certificate validation so even though it made an HTTPS connection, it would trust any certificate returned to the app, including one injected by an attacker.

VPN

VPN Phishing DNS Encryption

NSO mobile Pegasus Spyware used in operations in 45 countries

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

A new investigation of the Citizen Lab revealed that the powerful Pegasus mobile spyware was used against targets across 45 countries around the world over the last two years. “We designed and conducted a global DNS Cache Probing study on the matching domain names in order to identify in which countries each operator was spying.

Spyware

Spyware Mobile Surveillance DNS

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