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5 pro-freedom technologies that could change the Internet

Malwarebytes

DNS encryption. DNS encryption plugs a gap that makes it easy to track the websites you visit. The domain name system (DNS) is a distributed address book that lists domain names and their corresponding IP addresses. FIDO2 is a specification that uses public key encryption for authentication.

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Why We Still Haven’t Learned From the Target Data Breach a Decade Later

Security Boulevard

Most of these steps could’ve been blocked with the aid of DNS protection. It would be easy to chalk up this increase to the development and introduction of new advanced types of malware, but the surprising fact is that many of the same threats and exploits used in data breaches in 2013 are still being successfully employed 10 years later.

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

Security Affairs

The group has been active since at least 2013, the Aoqin Dragon was observed seeking initial access primarily through document exploits and the use of fake removable devices. Other techniques employed by the APT group include DLL hijacking, Themida-packed files, and DNS tunneling to evade post-compromise detection.

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InvisiMole group targets military sector and diplomatic missions in Eastern Europe

Security Affairs

The group has been active since at least 2013, ESET experts linked the group to the Gamaredon Russian APT group Gamaredon despite considers the two crews independent. They use DNS tunneling for stealthier C&C communications, and place execution guardrails on the malicious components to hide the malware from security researchers.”

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IT threat evolution Q3 2023

SecureList

For most implants, the threat actor uses similar implementations of DLL hijacking (often associated with ShadowPad malware) and memory injection techniques, along with the use of RC4 encryption to hide the payload and evade detection. libssl.dll or libcurl.dll was statically linked to implants to implement encrypted C2 communications.

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Russia-linked Gamaredon group targets Ukraine officials

Security Affairs

The group was first discovered by Symantec and TrendMicro in 2015 but evidence of its activities has been dated back to 2013. Upon reboot, the VBScript performs an HTTP GET request to fetch an encrypted stage from a dynamic DNS domain. The Gamaredon group. ” continues the analysis.

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DeathStalker targets legal entities with new Janicab variant

SecureList

Janicab was first introduced in 2013 as malware able to run on MacOS and Windows operating systems. cab.cabzipContentpythonLib<77 python libraries for system, network, and encryption/encoding> Below are noteworthy dropped files and their descriptions: Filename. Dropped files: cab.cabzipContentK.dll. cab.cabzipContentmap.txt.

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