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.” ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Adobe, Last.

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. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

DDOS 78

DDOS System Administration Advertising DNS 78

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The new IoT malware borrows code from the Xor.DDoS and Mirai bots, it also implements fresh evasion techniques, for example, the authors have encrypted both the main component and its corresponding Lua script using the ChaCha stream cipher. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

IoT 78

IoT DDOS Architecture Malware 78

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

PoSeidon malware, discovered by Cisco researchers in 2015, installs a keylogger and searches the POS device’s memory for number sequences that match credit card data — then uploads that data to an exfiltration server. Multi-factor authentication is also required for remote access. Three steps to an ideal POS security solution.

Retail 52

Retail Encryption Malware Artificial Intelligence 52

Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

Credential theft and password spraying to Cobalt Strike. This adversary starts with obtaining usernames and passwords of their victim from previous breaches. These credentials are used in a credential stuffing or password spraying attack against the victim’s remote services, such as webmail or other internet reachable mail services.

VPN 68

VPN Accountability Passwords DNS 68

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

APRIL 9, 2019

Stealer and CryptoStealer module to steal cryptocurrency wallets and saved passwords. The malware command and control infrastructure abuses the Pastebin service to ensure resilience, in fact the malware dynamically retrieves the real C2 destination address from a pastie over an encrypted HTTPS channel. C2 retrieval. 1986[@gmail[.com”,

Malware 68

Malware Advertising DNS Antivirus 68

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The malware tries to connect to the remote host 149.154.157.104 (EDIS-IT IT) through an encrypted SSL channel, then it downloads other components and deletes itself from the filesystem. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Technical Analysis. Listening proxy in execution. Pierluigi Paganini.

Banking 69

Banking Malware Internet Internet 69

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2019

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”. The “Dns” Plugin. Initialization of basic malware information.

Malware 57

Malware DNS Architecture Advertising 57