Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. Most of APT28s’ campaigns leveraged spear-phishing and malware-based attacks, the recent mass scanning activity represents a change in the modus operandi of the group. ” reads the report published by Trend Micro.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Attack vectors There are two main IoT infection routes: brute-forcing weak passwords and exploiting vulnerabilities in network services. A successful password cracking enables hackers to execute arbitrary commands on a device and inject malware. Unfortunately, users tend to leave these passwords unchanged.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

While looking for threats targeting Ukraine, we identified a group we call “Nigerian Tesla” that has been dabbling into phishing and other data theft activities for a number of years. One of their preferred scams was phishing for Adobe login pages. hackforums.net exploit.in titan.email (.pw pw accounts, various scams).

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Do you feel confident that everyone in your organization could identify a phishing email that contained ransomware? In today’s post, we share information with the goal that it will help everyone in your organization protect themselves from phishing attacks.

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Cisco Umbrella : DNS visibility and security. Since joining the Black Hat NOC in 2016, my goal remains integration and automation. This reduces the confusion of managing multiple accounts and passwords. The last call is to send a password reset email for the Malware Analytics user. Integrating Security.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Normally account take overs are due to insecure passwords or recovery options, this is definitely something different. — Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) February 17, 2016. " — Paul Asadoorian (@securityweekly) June 7, 2016. — Dave Kennedy (@HackingDave) July 15, 2020. Eugene Kaspersky | @e_kaspersky.

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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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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1962 — Allan Scherr — MIT sets up the first computer passwords, for student privacy and time limits. Student Allan Scherr makes a punch card to trick the computer into printing off all passwords and uses them to log in as other people after his time runs out. She connects him to any phone number he requests for free.

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Lenny Zeltser

MAY 3, 2019

campaigns from around 2016. Campaign attackers have been highly effective at fooling victims into revealing their logon credentials to copycat websites (phishing). Use a password vault, avoiding password reuse. Change default passwords for devices and apps. Lock down domain registrar and DNS settings.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. A review of passive DNS records from DomainTools indicates that in 2013 pictrace[.]com I advise anyone who is using an old NR [Near Reality] password for anything remotely important should change it ASAP.”

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Organizations can help prevent their computers from becoming part of a botnet by installing anti-malware software, using firewalls , keeping software up-to-date, and forcing users to use strong passwords. Always change the default passwords for any IoT devices you install before extended use. Phishing and Social Engineering.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Trickbot (aka TrickLoader or Trickster), is a successor of the Dyre banking Trojan that was active from 2014 to 2016 and performed man-in-the-browser attacks in order to steal banking credentials. Trickbot was first discovered in October 2016. Web sessions and user passwords saved in the browser are available in hVNC sessions.

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SecureList

AUGUST 30, 2023

Tomiris called, they want their Turla malware back We first reported Tomiris in September 2021, following our investigation into a DNS hijack against a government organization in the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States). Turla is happy to use a tool that was burned in 2016; and is still using it in current operations along with new tools.

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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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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Upon startup, this backdoor makes a type A DNS request for the <hex-encoded 20-byte string> u.fdmpkg[.]org After parsing the response to the DNS request, the backdoor launches a reverse shell, using the secondary C2 server for communications. LokiBot first surfaced in 2016 and remains active today. org domain.

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SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

BlueNoroff is the name of an APT group coined by Kaspersky researchers while investigating the notorious attack on Bangladesh’s Central Bank back in 2016. domainhost.dynamic-dns[.]net. A mysterious group with links to Lazarus and an unusual financial motivation for an APT. Archive file and its contents. abiesvc.jp[.]net.

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