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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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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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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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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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

JANUARY 20, 2022

. “The FBI has not yet observed Diavol leak victim data, despite ransom notes including threats to leak stolen information.” ” TrickBot is a popular banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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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. 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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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Integrating Security. As the needs of Black Hat evolved, so did the Cisco Secure Technologies in the NOC: Cisco SecureX : Extended Detection and Response actions / Automations. Cisco Umbrella : DNS visibility and security. Since joining the Black Hat NOC in 2016, my goal remains integration and automation.

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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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Lenny Zeltser

MAY 3, 2019

campaigns from around 2016. Enable security options according to your provider’s recommendations (e.g., the G Suite security checklist ). Lock down domain registrar and DNS settings. To understand the basis for these recommendations, read the documents mentioned at the end of the post. government.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

A review of passive DNS records from DomainTools indicates that in 2013 pictrace[.]com But he said he’s currently unemployed and can’t seem to land a job in what he views as his most promising career path: Information security. Pictrace, one of Jordan Bloom’s early IT successes.

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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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Kali Linux

JANUARY 20, 2016

After 5 months of testing our rolling distribution (and its supporting infrastructure), we’re confident in its reliability - giving our users the best of all worlds - the stability of Debian, together with the latest versions of the many outstanding penetration testing tools created and shared by the information security community.

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The attacker may utilize a website such as nwtools.com to look through the target organization’s DNS records. The FBI estimates that from October 2013 to February 2016, whaling attacks were attributed to $2.3 Whaling attacks may be the most costly and damaging of the three types. billion in losses. Who’s Being Targeted?

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

But how exactly will artificial intelligence help bridge the information security skills gap? And even with the help of machine learning algorithms, what kinds of security work is still best left to humans? They won with Mayhem, an assisted intelligence application security testing solution.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

But how exactly will artificial intelligence help bridge the information security skills gap? And even with the help of machine learning algorithms, what kinds of security work is still best left to humans? They won with Mayhem, an assisted intelligence application security testing solution.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

But how exactly will artificial intelligence help bridge the information security skills gap? And even with the help of machine learning algorithms, what kinds of security work is still best left to humans? They won with Mayhem, an assisted intelligence application security testing solution.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Read more: Top IT Asset Management Tools for Security. With deep industry experience, Jeremiah Grossman was the Information Security Officer for Yahoo!,

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SecureList

APRIL 24, 2023

Introduction We introduced Tomiris to the world in September 2021, following our investigation of a DNS-hijack against a government organization in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). KopiLuwak has belonged to Turla Kaspersky first reported on KopiLuwak in 2016. What are the possible explanations for this?

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Cisco Security

MAY 26, 2022

Since 2016, I have been a Technical Solutions Architect at Cisco Meraki and have worked on insanely large Meraki installations – some with twenty thousand branches and more than a hundred thousand access points, so setting up the Black Hat network should be a piece of cake right? About Black Hat.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 11, 2023

Tib3rius from White Oak Security discusses his experience as a web application security pen tester, his OSCP certification, and how he’s giving back to the community with his Twitch , Youtube , and tools he's made available on GitHub. So honestly, every single kind of web app is just a portal to information. VAMOSI: Yeah.

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