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.] us , a site unabashedly dedicated to helping people hack email and online gaming accounts. A review of passive DNS records from DomainTools indicates that in 2013 pictrace[.]com

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2018

Crooks are targeting DLink DSL modem routers in Brazil to redirect users to fake bank websites by carrying out DNS hijacking. Crooks are targeting DLink DSL modem routers in Brazil to redirect users to fake bank websites by changing the DNS settings. D-Link DSL-2740R / Unauthenticated Remote DNS Change Exploit [link].

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2024

Researchers warn of an attack vector in the DNS, called the Sitting Ducks, that exposes over a million domains to hackers’ takeover. Researchers from Eclypsium and Infoblox have identified an attack vector in the domain name system (DNS), dubbed the Sitting Ducks attack. ” continues the report.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 22, 2021

CrowdStrike security researchers have discovered that a hacking group dubbed LightBasin aka UNC1945 has been hiding in the networks of renowned telecom networks from the past 5 years, monitoring all their business operations and sending censorious data to remote servers.

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

Security expert Marco Ramilli published the findings of a quick analysis of the webmask project standing behind the DNS attacks implemented by APT34 (aka OilRig and HelixKitten ). According to Duo, “ OilRig delivered Trojans that use DNS tunneling for command and control in attacks since at least May 2016. Leaked Source code.

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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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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.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, OT).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

China-linked cyberespionage group LightBasin hacked mobile telephone networks around the world and used specialized tools to access calling records. The cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2016, according to the CrowdStrike researchers it is using a very sophisticated toolset.

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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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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

A 2016 screen shot of the Joker’s Stash homepage. ru , which periodically published hacking tools and exploits for software vulnerabilities. Big spenders were given access to the most freshly hacked payment cards, and were offered the ability to get free replacement cards if any turned out to be duds.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2024

Members of the ExCobalt group have been active since at least 2016, the researchers believe that the group is linked to the notorious Cobalt Gang. For secure communication, operators employ DNS/ICMP tunneling, WSS, and QUIC protocols. The communication between GoRed and its C2 server relies on the RPC protocol.

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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.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, distributed denial of service). Experts noticed that this attack is bigger than the 2.3 Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Trickbot).

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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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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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, RouterOS Scanner). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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.” SecurityAffairs – APT15, hacking).

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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.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. In May 2019, the experts noticed that the group started using hacked email addresses of numerous high-profile targets to send credential spam messages. SecurityAffairs – APT28, hacking). ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2019

Indeed we might observe a File-based command and control (a quite unusual solution) structure, a VBS launcher, a PowerShell Payload and a covert channel over DNS engine. According to Duo, “ OilRig delivered Trojans that use DNS tunneling for command and control in attacks since at least May 2016. It is not a TXT request.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

A user reported that its D-Link DNS-320 device was infected by malicious code. The D-Link DNS-320 model is no more available for sale, one of the members of the forum explained that the firmware of its NAS was never updated and its device was exposed to WAN through ports 8080, FTP port 21, and a range of ports for port forwarding.

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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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, tax software). Researchers published Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) for this threat. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

At its peak in September 2016, Mirai temporarily crippled several high-profile services such as. Behind the scenes, many of these turns occurred as various hacking groups fought to control and exploit IoT devices for drastically different motives. Covers the Mirai code release and how multiple hacking groups end-up reusing the code.

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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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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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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1834 — French Telegraph System — A pair of thieves hack the French Telegraph System and steal financial market information, effectively conducting the world’s first cyberattack. 1870 — Switchboard Hack — A teenager hired as a switchboard operator is able to disconnect and redirect calls and use the line for personal usage. .

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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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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Pirozzi explains that cybercriminals already have exploited blockchain in attacks in the wild, for example in the case of the popular carding store Joker’s Stash when they have adopted a peer-to-peer DNS system based on blockchain. The Automated Vending Cart (AVC) website was launched in 2017 using blockchain DNS alongside its Tor (.onion)

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Much of this traffic is comprised of suspicious DNS queries, which point to known or likely Command and Control sites. DNS BIND information disclosure attempts were also commonly encountered. Like ShellShock, the exploit for this vulnerability is present in many automated hacking tools. CVE-2016-3081. CVE-2016-3087.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

group_a : from 2016 to August 2017 2. 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.

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Lenny Zeltser

MAY 3, 2019

campaigns from around 2016. Lock down domain registrar and DNS settings. I formulated the advice above mostly based on the tactics used against 2016 and 2018 election campaigns in the United States, as publicly described by the news media, cybersecurity companies, and the U.S. Similar dynamics apply to other countries.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

We conducted an analysis of the IoT threat landscape for 2023, as well as the products and services offered on the dark web related to hacking connected devices. Another type of service sold on the dark web is IoT hacking. DNS changer Malicious actors may use IoT devices to target users who connect to them.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

This is typical and is often described in hacking forums where users ask for help with the ‘software’ Figure 3: Forum post complaining about issue not receiving logs. The threat actor shared photos of himself back in 2016 and for some reason forgot about them. Figure 2: Test emails sent by the attacker. titan.email (.pw

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

For some reason, the Shelly on my garage door is making a DNS request for api.shelly.cloud once every second! The attacker would have to be on your wi-fi network to do the hack. The growth has been driven by the free and easy availability of certificates, largely due to the emergence of Let's Encrypt in 2016.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 28, 2024

In 2016, following the Democratic National Convention (DNC) hacks, Buzzfeed News reported that cybercriminals had set up fake domains to impersonate legitimate political websites , aiming to trick users into donating to fraudulent causes. dotster.com and ns2.dotster.com. dotster.com.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2019

But if we go on the Akamai blog we can still find a reference to Elknot posted on April 4, 2016 on a topic referred to “ BillGates ”, another DDoS malware whose “ attack vectors available within the toolkit include: ICMP flood, TCP flood, UDP flood, SYN flood, HTTP Flood (Layer7) and DNS reflection floods.

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