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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The Last Watchdog

JULY 1, 2019

Related: Why not train employees as phishing cops? 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. Phishing campaigns directed at election officials.

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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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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. ActsBlue Phishing Site Now, this tactic seems to be active again. The domain actsblue[.]com

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Over the last few days, scammers have been sending out phishing mails that disguise bogus URLs with something called Slinks— shortened Linkedin URLs. For example, in February of last year Slinks were being used to send people to IRS and PayPal phishes. How to avoid phishing attacks Block known bad websites.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2019

Proofpoint analyzed two strains of malware tracked as ServHelper and FlawedGrace distributed through phishing campaigns by the TA505 crime gang. Security researchers at Proofpoint researchers discovered two strains of malware tracked as ServHelper and FlawedGrace distributed through phishing campaigns by the TA505 crime gang.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

We attribute the campaign, named SnatchCrypto, to the BlueNoroff APT group, the threat actor behind the 2016 attack on Bangladesh’s central bank. The group uses various malware families, including Wroba, and attack methods that include phishing, mining, smishing and DNS poisoning. The phishing kit market.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

This vulnerability should put Windows 10 and Server 2016 and later editions into your priority bucket for remediation this month.”. Security teams should also focus on CVE-2021-24078 , a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Windows DNS Server, Liske said. This critical vulnerability, which Microsoft assigned a CVSS score of 9.8,

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

group_a : from 2016 to August 2017 2. Indeed during the group_a, the main observed delivery techniques where about Phishing (rif.T1193) and Valid Accounts (rif.T1078). T1386) and spread over spear phishing campaigns as shown on delivery section. group_b : from August 2017 to January 2018 3. Delivery Technique Over Time.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Cobalt crime gang has been active since at least 2016, it targeted banks worldwide. Cobalt hackers leverage spear-phishing emails to compromise target systems, messages spoof emails from financial institutions or a financial supplier/partner. 2831589 - ETPRO TROJAN Cobalt Group Downloader (apstore.info in DNS Lookup) (trojan.rules).

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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. The workflows create accounts in SecureX, Secure Malware Analytics (Threat Grid), Umbrella DNS and Meraki dashboard, all using SecureX Single Sign-On. Integrating Security.

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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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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Phishing [ T1566 ]. 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. CVE-2016-3081. CVE-2016-3087. Techniques seen. (in in order of frequency). Initial Access.

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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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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). 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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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

For the Forrester Wave for Cloud Security Gateways, Imperva was a Contender in 2016 and 2017, and Forcepoint was a Strong Performer in 2021. For the Forrester Wave for Cloud Security Gateways, Bitglass has been a Contender in the three reports released between 2016 and 2021. The product is well rated by users and analysts alike.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

DNS changer Malicious actors may use IoT devices to target users who connect to them. A 2022 campaign known as Roaming Mantis, or Shaoye, spread an Android app whose capabilities included modifying DNS settings on Wi-Fi routers through the administration interface. The practice has not become widespread due to relative inefficiency.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

A review of passive DNS records from DomainTools indicates that in 2013 pictrace[.]com The street address listed in the registration records for qksnap.com — 204 Beverley Glen Blvd — also shows up in the registration records for leakadvisor[.]com Pictrace, one of Jordan Bloom’s early IT successes.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

2002 – Internet Attack — By targeting the thirteen Domain Name System (DNS) root servers, a DDoS attack assaults the entire Internet for an hour. Justice Department announces more than 70 indictments and 125 convictions or arrests for phishing, hacking, spamming and other Internet fraud as part of Operation CyberSweep. .

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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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eSecurity Planet

JULY 28, 2021

More robust security for Domain Name Systems (DNS). Custodian of the MediLedger Network, Chronicled first started deploying their blockchain platform in 2014 before zeroing in on life sciences in late 2016. Distributed PKI and multi-signature login capabilities. Verifying and logging software updates and downloads. Chronicled.

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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. It retrieves the DNS names of all the directory trees in the local computer’s forest.

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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

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. abiesvc.jp[.]net. atom.publicvm[.]com. att.gdrvupload[.]xyz.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Important CVE-2024-49040 | Microsoft Exchange Server Spoofing Vulnerability CVE-2024-49040 is a spoofing vulnerability affecting Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 and 2019. While this feature can be disabled, Microsoft strongly recommends leaving it enabled to provide further protection from phishing attempts and malicious emails.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

— Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) February 17, 2016. " — Paul Asadoorian (@securityweekly) June 7, 2016. DNS over HTTPS is a sensitive info grab by whomever Web browsers partner with, yet it's sold as a "privacy enhancement." Katie Moussouris | @k8em0. " me: "Is that Windows 98?!?"

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Attackers often use botnets to send out spam or phishing campaigns to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. In 2016, the Mirai botnet attack left most of the eastern U.S. Phishing and Social Engineering. More targeted efforts at specific users or organizations are known as spear phishing. Phishing Type.

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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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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 4, 2023

Now that being said, the second probably most common way is through phishing and credential stuffing. But when I was there, one of the first projects I worked on was auth systems for mostly DNS. And figuring out how we could route sellers’ custom websites to our website, and have the DNS records match up, and handle SSL.

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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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