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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Krebs on Security

“Using the internal router, it would be possible to poison the DNS cache of the LAN router of the infected node, enabling further attacks.” The 911 user interface, as it existed when the service first launched in 2016. Another domain tied to the ustraffic@qq.com email in 2016 was ExeClean[.]net com , cleantraffic[.]net

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StripedFly: Perennially flying under the radar

SecureList

DNS resolutions for pool servers are cleverly concealed behind DNS over HTTPS requests to the Cloudflare DoH (DNS over HTTPS) service , adding an extra layer of stealth to its operations. August 2016: Initial leak by the Shadow Brokers group. This is the only task that works in the Linux version of the malware.

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IoT Unravelled Part 3: Security

Troy Hunt

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. For some reason, the Shelly on my garage door is making a DNS request for api.shelly.cloud once every second!

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BOFHound: Session Integration

Security Boulevard

One of the biggest pitfalls of BOFHound’s prior usage strategies was the total absence of user session and local group membership data. If the BOF is used to query logged on users on localhost, the fully qualified computer DNS name from GetComputerNameExW is used. If that fails, the DNS suffix (e.g.,

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Indictment, Lawsuits Revive Trump-Alfa Bank Story

Krebs on Security

In October 2016, media outlets reported that data collected by some of the world’s most renowned cybersecurity experts had identified frequent and unexplained communications between an email server used by the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank , one of Russia’s largest financial institutions. trump-email.com).

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