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

MARCH 20, 2020

The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. 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. SecurityAffairs – APT28, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2023

Sophos X-Ops is currently tracking a campaign by threat actors targeting unpatched Citrix NetScaler systems exposed to the internet. The attackers attempted to verify outbound network connectivity with a ping command and executed host commands for a subnet-wide DNS lookup. Network-segmentation controls blocked this activity too.

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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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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

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. Or are they just the same old risks we've always had with data stored on the internet?

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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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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

This post provides a retrospective analysis of Mirai — the infamous Internet-of-Things botnet that took down major websites via massive distributed denial-of-service using hundreds of thousands of compromised Internet-Of-Things devices. At its peak in September 2016, Mirai temporarily crippled several high-profile services such as.

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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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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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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security) protocol is used to establish secure connections over UDP, through which most DNS queries, as well as audio and video traffic, are sent. Dear players, The PUBG MOBILE team are currently actively working to resolve the DDoS attacks against our systems and the new hacking issues.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. Mashable: Move over Heartbleed and welcome to shell shock, the latest security threat to hit the internet. used vulnerabilities in sendmail and the fingerd protocol to construct unintentionally what would become the first internet worm.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. Mashable: Move over Heartbleed and welcome to shell shock, the latest security threat to hit the internet. used vulnerabilities in sendmail and the fingerd protocol to construct unintentionally what would become the first internet worm.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 11, 2023

Hacking websites is perhaps often underestimated yet is super interesting with all its potential for command injections and cross site scripting attacks. In fact, the word “hack” simply means to take things apart. It’s about challenging out expectations about the people who hack for a living.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

I first met Dan when he was literally saving the world; okay, at least saving the internet as we know it today by disclosing to the major ISPs in the world a flaw he’d found in the Domain Name System or DNS. Dan found a flaw that could have crippled the internet. CODEN: From 2016 to 2021. I hope you stick around.

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The Security Ledger

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Even worse: we stand on the made up of webcams and other Internet of things as technologies like 5G bring greater bandwidth to connected endpoints. Even worse: we stand on the made up of webcams and other Internet of things as technologies like 5G bring greater bandwidth to connected endpoints. Read the whole entry. »

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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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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

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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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

forced the issue of cybersecurity into the political spotlight in 2016. All information used in the audit is available publicly through resources such as Google, campaign websites, DNS lookup, news articles and websites that allow internet users to check if their personal data has been compromised by data breaches.

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