Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The operators leverage on low cost and easy to replace infrastructure using dynamic-DNS domains and regularly reused hop points. “MSTIC analysis indicates the use of dynamic DNS providers as opposed to registered domains is in line with GALLIUM’s trend towards low cost and low effort operations.”

Telecommunications 63

Telecommunications DNS Malware Advertising 63

eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2021

Ransomware: Encryption, Exfiltration, and Extortion. Ransomware perpetrators of the past presented a problem of availability through encryption. Nickels suggests organizations follow this guidance: Also Read: How Zero Trust Security Can Protect Against Ransomware. Detect Focus on encryption Assume exfiltration.

Software 116

Software Firmware DNS VPN 116

Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

. “On March 16th I have found an unprotected and thus publicly available Elasticsearch instance which appeared to be managed by a UK-based security company, according to the SSL certificate and reverse DNS records.” ” wrote Security Discovery’s researcher Bob Diachenko. Adobe, Last. Pierluigi Paganini.

Data breaches 58

Data breaches DNS Advertising Engineering 58

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

.” The analysis of the bot revealed that it supports seven functions: reverse shell, self-uninstall, gather process’ network information, gather Bot information, execute system commands, run encrypted files specified in URLs, DDoS attack, etc. ” reads the analysis. Pierluigi Paganini.

DDOS 78

DDOS System Administration Advertising DNS 78

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2019

Security experts at FireEye Mandiant discovered that the FIN7 hacking group has added new tools to its arsenal, including a new loader and a module that hooks into the legitimate remote administration software used by the ATM maker NCR Corporation. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Identity Theft 73

Identity Theft Hacking Advertising DNS 73

Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2020

Our findings show that both Telenor and MPT block websites using DNS tampering. MPT is ignoring the DNS requests to the blocked domains, while Telenor is redirecting them to an IP address outside of the country. Adding this information to the block page would increase the transparency and trustworthiness of Telenor Myanmar.

Internet 70

Internet Internet Telecommunications DNS 70

Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

Criminals used UPX packer to protect malware code written in Go and a RSA public certificate is hardcoded inside malware to encrypt all user’s target files. This finding results in a simple “key” to encrypt all the infected victims. However, the RSA public key used to encrypt the target files is static and hardcoded inside ransomware.

Ransomware 79

Ransomware Encryption Malware Cyber Attacks 79

Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2020

Pavel explained that attackers could also collect information even when the traffic is encrypted. The analysis of DNS could reveal the user’s Internet browsing history while the analysis of TLS certificates could allow fingerprinting the servers the user connected.

Internet 87

Internet Internet Advertising Encryption 87

Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

T1094) mainly developed using DNS resolutions (which is actually one of the main characteristic of the attacker group). They begun development by introducing crafted communication protocol over DNS and later they added, to such a layer, encoding and encryption self build protocols. Pierluigi Paganini.

Computers and Electronics 79

Computers and Electronics Penetration Testing DNS Phishing 79

Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

Criminals used UPX packer to protect malware code written in Go and a RSA public certificate is hardcoded inside malware to encrypt all user’s target files. This finding results in a simple “key” to encrypt all the infected victims. However, the RSA public key used to encrypt the target files is static and hardcoded inside ransomware.

Ransomware 40

Ransomware Encryption Malware Cyber Attacks 40

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).

Wireless 60

Wireless DNS Mobile Technology 60

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

An encrypted snippet of code, for instance, has high entropy associated. The malware tries to resolve the DNS: sameerd.net. As shown, the DNS has not been resolved. Figure 31: Available ports of the malicious DNS. Figure 3: Passive DNS replication. Pay attention. The.text section is packed and has high entropy.

Malware 76

Malware Phishing DNS Engineering 76

Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2019

The Trojan is used during the lateral movement stage and is designed to control compromised systems by performing tasks through the command shell and tunneling traffic using the DNS protocol. Silence has also changed its encryption alphabets, string encryption, and commands for the bot and the main module. Pierluigi Paganini.

Banking 53

Banking Cybercrime Cybersecurity Advertising 53

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Initialization of basic malware information. Continuing to analyze the code, we reconstructed the approach used by the attacker to obfuscate the payload: all the necessary information has been encrypted, splitted, and then encoded in Base64 chunks stored into different structures named as “ta” , “t_ep” , “t_eq”.

Malware 57

Malware DNS Architecture Advertising 57