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IT threat evolution Q3 2021

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In June, more than six months after DarkHalo had gone dark, we observed the DNS hijacking of multiple government zones of a CIS member state that allowed the attacker to redirect traffic from government mail servers to computers under their control – probably achieved by obtaining credentials to the control panel of the victims’ registrar.

Malware 85
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Security Affairs newsletter Round 221 – News of the week

Security Affairs

Firefox finally addressed the Antivirus software TLS Errors. China installs a surveillance app on tourists phones while crossing in the Xinjiang. Godlua backdoor, the first malware that abuses the DNS over HTTPS (DoH). Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Bangladesh Cyber Heist 2.0:

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APT trends report Q1 2021

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It was first publicly documented in 2014, in the aftermath of the Gamma Group hacking incident. Although Lyceum still prefers taking advantage of DNS tunneling, it appears to have replaced the previously documented.NET payload with a new C++ backdoor and a PowerShell script that serve the same purpose.

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