The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2019

Three years later, October 2016, a DDoS attack, dubbed Mirai, topped 600 gigabytes per second while taking aim at the website of cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs. The Spamhaus attacker, for instance, noticed that there were literally millions of domain name system (DNS) resolvers that remained wide open all over the internet.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2021

Security experts disclosed nine flaws, collectively tracked as NAME:WRECK, affecting implementations of the DNS protocol in popular TCP/IP network communication stacks. CVE-2016-20009 IPnet – stack-based overflow on the message decompression function Message compression RCE 9.8 ” reads the analysis published by Forescout.

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DNS Advertising Hacking Ransomware 98

CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Interestingly, the findings state that the threat actors, probably funded by a government, were hiding in the external DNS servers of telcos and conducting espionage through General Packet Radio Services (GPRS) networks. However, no substantial evidence to prove the exact location of hackers has been got till date.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2021

NicheStack (aka InterNiche stack) is a proprietary TCP/IP stack developed originally by InterNiche Technologies and acquired by HCC Embedded in 2016. “The new vulnerabilities allow for Remote Code Execution, Denial of Service, Information Leak, TCP Spoofing, or DNS Cache Poisoning.” ” states the report.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 14, 2020

Top of the heap this month in terms of outright scariness is CVE-2020-1350 , which concerns a remotely exploitable bug in more or less all versions of Windows Server that attackers could use to install malicious software simply by sending a specially crafted DNS request.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 14, 2021

CVE-2021-33771 Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability for Windows Server 2012, Server 2016, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, and Windows Server 2019. and Windows 10. CVE-2021-31979 Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability for Windows 7, Windows 8.1,

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The flaw being exploited in the wild already — CVE-2021-1732 — affects Windows 10, Server 2016 and later editions. A key concern for enterprises is another critical bug in the DNS server on Windows Server 2008 through 2019 versions that could be used to remotely install software of the attacker’s choice.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 20, 2023

What's so special about this individual is the fact that he's also been running a well known money mule recruitment operation since 2016 using the World Issuer LLC money mule recruitment franchise based on my research using public sources where we've got the actual hxxp://worldissuer[.]biz com hxxp://beta-dns[.]net nordexin@ya.ru

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2019

. “the actor moved away from hosting the scripts on dedicated servers and instead started to use Domain Name System (DNS) text records. These records are accessed via normal DNS queries or DNS-over-HTTPs ( DoH ) if the DNS query fails. “Rocke keeps evolving its TTPs in attempts to remain undetected.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

HYAS said it quickly notified the French national computer emergency team and the FBI about its findings, which pointed to a dynamic domain name system (DNS) provider on which the purveyors of this attack campaign relied for their various malware servers. ‘FATAL’ ERROR.

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SecureList

JULY 25, 2022

It is worth noting that the localization of this function, also achieved by searching for hardcoded patterns, is very exhaustive and even contains patterns corresponding to the Redstone 1 release from August 2016. DNS requests are performed in this fashion, using either Google’s DNS server (8.8.8[.]8) 2016-12-27.

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Firmware DNS Malware Technology 144

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2020

TrickBot is a popular banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features. At the end of 2019, researchers spotted a new TrickBot backdoor framework dubbed Anchor that was using the DNS protocol for C2 communications. ” explained Grange.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

This vulnerability should put Windows 10 and Server 2016 and later editions into your priority bucket for remediation this month.”. Security teams should also focus on CVE-2021-24078 , a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Windows DNS Server, Liske said. This critical vulnerability, which Microsoft assigned a CVSS score of 9.8,

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Risk DNS Media Phishing 71

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 30, 2024

If the BOF is used to query logged on users on localhost, the fully qualified computer DNS name from GetComputerNameExW is used. Figure 2 — Sessions Gathered with NetWkstaUserEnum An important note here is that fully qualified DNS names are important when supplying the servername argument. If that fails, the DNS suffix (e.g.,

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The critical bits reside in updates for Microsoft Exchange Server , Sharepoint Server , and Windows 10 and Server 2016 systems. Additionally, Microsoft released an advisory on how to minimize the risk from a DNS spoofing weakness in Windows Server 2008 through 2019.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 1, 2019

What this tells me is that the presidential candidates, at least, actually appear to be heeding lessons learned from the hacking John Podesta’s email account – and all of the havoc Russia was able to foment in our 2016 elections. Let’s not forget how Russia targeted elections in 39 states back in 2016. “We

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Cyber Risk DNS Phishing Backups 160

Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2022

TrickBot is a popular Windows banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features, including powerful password-stealing capabilities. The news wave of attacks aimed at cryptocurrency firms, most of them located in the U.S. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malware DNS Passwords Ransomware 122

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

TrickBot is a popular banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features. In early 2019, researchers spotted a new TrickBot backdoor framework dubbed Anchor that was using the anchor_dns tool for abusing the DNS protocol for C2 communications.

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Healthcare Ransomware Cybercrime DNS 144

Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2022

” TrickBot is a popular banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features. “The Bot ID generated by Diavol is nearly identical to the format used by TrickBot and the Anchor DNS malware, also attributed to Trickbot.”

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Ransomware Banking Malware Encryption 113

Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2019

Experts discovered that since December 2016, the APT15 group has been using the previously undocumented backdoor dubbed Okrum. We first detected Okrum, through ESET telemetry, in December 2016; it targeted diplomatic missions in Slovakia, Belgium, Chile, Guatemala and Brazil throughout 2017.” ” continues the report.

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DNS Malware Advertising Manufacturing 88

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2016, according to the CrowdStrike researchers it is using a very sophisticated toolset. ” The hacking group initially compromised one of the telecommunication companies by leveraging external DNS (eDNS) servers which are part of the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) network. .

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Telecommunications Mobile Hacking Architecture 118

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2020

. “The attacker used several networks to spoof 167 Mpps (millions of packets per second) to 180,000 exposed CLDAP, DNS, and SMTP servers, which would then send large responses to us.” Experts noticed that this attack is bigger than the 2.3 Tbps DDoS attack mitigated by Amazon’s AWS in February.

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DDOS DNS Advertising Engineering 100

Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2023

The attackers attempted to verify outbound network connectivity with a ping command and executed host commands for a subnet-wide DNS lookup. Then threat actors sent data as an image file to a web-accessible path: cp /var/tmp/test.tar.gz /netscaler/ns_gui/vpn/medialogininit.png. Network-segmentation controls blocked this activity too.

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VPN Ransomware DNS Malware 106

Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2019

“Compared to the 2016 variants this sample introduces a configuration file and does not rely on C2 for operation. The experts analyzed four different samples of the Ratsnif RAT, three dated back 2016, and the fourth created in H2 2018. ” reads the analysis published by Cylance. ” continues the analysis.

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Malware Advertising DNS Manufacturing 62

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As Brian Krebs notes, this tactic has been around for some years and was spotted in 2016 being sent out via Skype spam. Malwarebytes DNS filtering blocks malicious websites used for phishing attacks, as well as websites used to spread or control malware. Now they're being used in a scam based on Amazon's popular Prime membership.

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Phishing Passwords Password Management Scams 96

SC Magazine

MARCH 31, 2021

Centripetal’s lawyers claim that in 2016, its CEO and founder held several meetings and telephone calls with Palo Alto executives to discuss a threat intelligence partnership. Many of the innovations deal with specific methods for filtering network traffic data and rule-based network threat detection.

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Firewall Artificial Intelligence Network Security Technology 114

Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

As first detailed by KrebsOnSecurity in July 2016 , Orcus is the brainchild of John “Armada” Rezvesz , a Toronto resident who until recently maintained and sold the RAT under the company name Orcus Technologies. An advertisement for Orcus RAT. In an “official press release” posted to pastebin.com on Mar.

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Advertising Malware Marketing Software 215

Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

guru’s registration records also are hidden, yet passive domain name system (DNS) records for both cryptor[.]biz But Intel 471 finds that after his critical review of VIP Crypt, Kerens did not post publicly on Exploit again for another four years until October 2016, when they suddenly began advertising Cryptor[.]biz.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. “Their attacks, which range from compromising DNS set tings and tabnabbing to creating watering holes and taking advantage of zero-days, have been nothing short of sophisticated. ” concludes the report.

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NopSec

JUNE 16, 2020

LLMNR is derived from DNS protocol, and is intended to enable hosts on a local network to easily perform name resolution. WPAD is a protocol that probes for a WPAD server hosting a proxy configuration file at the DNS address “wpad.domain.com”. In most organizations a WPAD host does not exist.

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DNS Penetration Testing Authentication Passwords 52

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The Iron cybercrime group has been active since at least 2016, is known for the Iron ransomware but across the years it is built various strain of malware, including backdoors, cryptocurrency miners, and ransomware to target both mobile and desktop systems. . ActiveMQ arbitrary file write vulnerability , CVE-2016-3088.”

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Cryptocurrency Malware Ransomware Cybercrime 91

Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2020

The campaign is active since at least April 2020, but experts found some samples that suggest the attacks begun at least December 2016. Researchers published Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) for this threat. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Software 84

Software Malware Banking Advertising 84

SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

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.

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Malware DNS Encryption Cryptocurrency 107

Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2022

In 2016, Verizon had to settle with the FCC over its use of a supercookie, which tracked the websites visited by phones on its network. But I asked German privacy expert Andreas Dewes and he responded: “a device level VPN with integrated DNS should be able to block this kind of tracking.”. We’ll keep you posted.

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Advertising Internet Internet Mobile 111

Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2019

The threat actors use the.bit Top-Level Domain (TLD) for the Domain Name System (DNS) servers. bit” C&C domains was added to protect the C2 infrastructure, this TLD is associated with the cryptocurrency Namecoin and requires special DNS servers that the malware uses (dedsolutions[.]bit, The support for “.bit” bit, arepos[.]bit).null.

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Malware DNS Financial Services Retail 93

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

percent for the 2015-2016 school year to pay for an increase in their IT cybersecurity budget. For comprehensive protection, look for a DDoS protection service that provides web application, infrastructure and DNS protection. Due to the number of cyberattacks, Rutgers was forced to raise tuition and fees by 2.3

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Data breaches DDOS Education Malware 52

Kali Linux

JANUARY 20, 2016

reboot Please note that the Kali sana repositories will no longer be updated and will be EOL’d on the 15th of April 2016. You can quickly select tools by what they do, such as conducting information gathering , cracking passwords , doing DNS enumeration, evaluating wireless networks, and much, much more.

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