Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The Winnti group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, according to the researchers the gang has been active since 2007. malware was used by threat actors to establish a backdoor in MSSQL Server 11 and 12 servers, allowing them to access to any account on the server using a “magic password.” The skip-2.0

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

This is a little project I started whilst killing time in a hotel room in late 2013 after thinking "I wonder if people actually know where their data has been exposed?" If I'm honest, I'm constantly surprised by the extent of how far Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) is reaching these days.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

” The IT network of The Manipulaters, circa 2013. As I noted in 2015, The Manipulaters Team used domain name service (DNS) settings from another blatantly fraudulent service called ‘ FreshSpamTools[.]eu Regarding phishing, whenever we receive complaint, we remove the services immediately. Image: Facebook.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Upon startup, this backdoor makes a type A DNS request for the <hex-encoded 20-byte string> u.fdmpkg[.]org After parsing the response to the DNS request, the backdoor launches a reverse shell, using the secondary C2 server for communications. org domain. Otherwise, the reverse shell is created by the crond backdoor itself.

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Malware Ransomware Encryption Energy and Utilities 91

NopSec

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The attacker may utilize a website such as nwtools.com to look through the target organization’s DNS records. The FBI estimates that from October 2013 to February 2016, whaling attacks were attributed to $2.3 The passwords were then used to deposit future paychecks into the attacker’s account. billion in losses.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Normally account take overs are due to insecure passwords or recovery options, this is definitely something different. Tabriz has led Google Chrome’s security since 2013, which extends to managing Product, Engineering, and UX today. We're on a mission to encourage unique passwords stored in a password manager with MFA on.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 3, 2023

However, searching passive DNS records at DomainTools.com for thedomainsvault[.]com In January 2019, Houzz acknowledged that a data breach exposed account information on an undisclosed number of customers, including user IDs, one-way encrypted passwords, IP addresses, city and ZIP codes, as well as Facebook information. 68.35.149.206).

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Remote desktop software’s sensitive influence over other devices means identity and access management (IAM), password security , and multi-factor authentication are critical for risk management. Partnering with SentinelOne , N-able launched its endpoint detection and response (EDR) and password management solutions in 2019.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2019

The group was first discovered by Symantec and TrendMicro in 2015 but evidence of its activities has been dated back to 2013. The infection chain is composed by different stages of password protected SFX (self extracting archive), each containing vbs or batch scripts. Information about C2 and relative DNS. Malicious e-mail.

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Passwords DNS Engineering Malware 61

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 10, 2021

The least common of SQL injection attacks, the out-of-band method relies on the database server to make DNS or HTTP requests delivering data to an attacker. . . . Therefore encryption and hashing passwords, confidential data, and connection strings are of the utmost importance. . Out-of-band. Encryption: Keep Your Secrets Secret.

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Penetration Testing Firewall Software Accountability 117

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

vSkimmer malware, a successor to Dexter, dates back to 2013. Backoff malware, which also dates back to 2013, scrapes memory for track data, logs keystrokes, and connects to a command and control server to upload stolen data and download additional malware. Errors to avoid. And that’s not just true for your security team.

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Retail Encryption Malware Artificial Intelligence 52

Cisco Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

XDR (eXtended Detection and Response) Integrations At Black Hat USA 2023, Cisco Secure was the official Mobile Device Management, DNS (Domain Name Service) and Malware Analysis Provider. SCA detected 289 alerts including Suspected Port Abuse, Internal Port Scanner, New Unusual DNS Resolver,and Protocol Violation (Geographic).

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 15, 2023

We can't touch DNS. And so on and so forth until my inbox looked like this: This was Azure auto-scale doing its thing and it was one of the early attractions for me building HIBP on Microsoft's PaaS offering way back in 2013. We don't have any of those 4 aliases on our domain. We can't add a meta tag.

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Accountability Small Business InfoSec DNS 231

Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

I've implemented CAA on HIBP and it's simply a matter of some DNS records and a check with a CAA validator : Unfortunately, there are no such records for Aadhaar: Now in fairness to Aadhaar, CAA is very new and the take-up is low ; we cannot be critical of them for not having implemented it yet. Let them paste passwords!

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SecureList

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Threat actors can decrypt these files and dump the usernames, password hashes, computer names, groups, and other data. Web sessions and user passwords saved in the browser are available in hVNC sessions. This module is a password stealer module. dat” q q. reg save HKLMSAM %TEMP%<random>1.dat aexecDll32. tdpwgrab32.

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Banking Passwords VPN Internet 136

SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

We have previously seen DustSquad use third-party post-exploitation tools, such as the password dumping utility fgdump; but we have now observed new custom C modules, a first for DustSquad, and Delphi downloaders acting as post-exploitation facilitators, able to gather documents of interest for the actor.

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Malware Firmware Government Phishing 131

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1962 — Allan Scherr — MIT sets up the first computer passwords, for student privacy and time limits. Student Allan Scherr makes a punch card to trick the computer into printing off all passwords and uses them to log in as other people after his time runs out. She connects him to any phone number he requests for free.

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Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135