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Addressing Remote Desktop Attacks and Security

eSecurity Planet

For the generation of remote work and operations, Check Point Remote Access VPN offers central management and policy administration for controlling access to corporate networks. The Remote Access VPN enables more robust security with the encryption of transmitted data, system compliance scanning, and multi-factor authentication.

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Black Hat USA 2023 NOC: Network Assurance

Cisco Security

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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Trickbot module descriptions

SecureList

It retrieves the DNS names of all the directory trees in the local computer’s forest. EMBEDDED SYS MODULE timestamp:2013-03-25 InternalName:RwDrv.sys. This module uses an RAS (Remote Access Service) API to establish a VPN (Virtual Private Network) connection. < The vpnDll32 module establishes a VPN connection.

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

Troy Hunt

Blocking legitimate users is part of that problem, blocking users wanting to protect their traffic with a VPN is another: This has been there for the past year now. They also blacklist vpn IP addresses. Geo-blocking is a really weak, easily circumvented control that often does more harm than good. Blocking Paste.

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Phishing: What Everyone in Your Organization Needs to Know

NopSec

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 Whaling attacks may be the most costly and damaging of the three types. billion in losses. Who’s Being Targeted?

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APT trends report Q1 2021

SecureList

The attackers used vulnerabilities in an SSL-VPN product to deploy a multi-layered loader we dubbed Ecipekac (aka DESLoader, SigLoader and HEAVYHAND). We have discovered new evidence showing that Domestic Kitten has been using PE executables to target victims using Windows since at least 2013, with some evidence that it goes back to 2011.

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