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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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

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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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

guru’s registration records also are hidden, yet passive domain name system (DNS) records for both cryptor[.]biz has been associated with the user Kerens on the Russian hacking forum Exploit from 2011 to the present day. has been associated with the user Kerens on the Russian hacking forum Exploit from 2011 to the present day.

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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

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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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

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

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

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

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

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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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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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Some of the most common attacks cybercriminals use to breach higher education institutions are hacking, malware and DDoS attacks. Hacking Your College Campus. Hacking and malware were the cause of 36 percent of data breaches in the education sector in 2015. Expelling Malware from School. Protect Your Campus from DDoS Attacks.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

Which brings us back to Aadhaar and some rather unpleasant headlines of late, particularly the likes of The World's Largest Biometric ID System Keeps Getting Hacked. They claim that they're hack-proof. But claiming the service is "hack-proof", that's something I definitely have an issue with. Can you prove otherwise?

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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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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 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

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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SecureList

JULY 28, 2021

In particular, Gafgyt’s authors copied its implementation of various DDoS methods, such as TCP, UDP and HTTP flooding, as well as its brute-force functionality for hacking IoT devices via the Telnet protocol. It is linked to a vulnerability in DNS resolvers that allows amplification attacks on authoritative DNS servers.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Shah provides her expertise in hacking, software development, and kernel development and advocates for open source initiatives. Lots of accounts including Bezos, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Mr Beast, and a ton more getting hacked for a bitcoin scheme. — Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) February 17, 2016.

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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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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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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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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In 2016, Professor Brumley and a team of students from CMU were victorious in DARPA's first ever Cyber Grand Challenge that pitted automated cyber defense technologies against one another. One of the unique things about how they did this is they judged it in a full spectrum hacking contest. but they never actually checked that.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In 2016, Professor Brumley and a team of students from CMU were victorious in DARPA's first ever Cyber Grand Challenge that pitted automated cyber defense technologies against one another. One of the unique things about how they did this is they judged it in a full spectrum hacking contest. but they never actually checked that.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In 2016, Professor Brumley and a team of students from CMU were victorious in DARPA's first ever Cyber Grand Challenge that pitted automated cyber defense technologies against one another. One of the unique things about how they did this is they judged it in a full spectrum hacking contest. but they never actually checked that.

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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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