Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts. ” COME, ABUSE WITH US The gold farming reference is fascinating because in 2017 KrebsOnSecurity published Who Ran LeakedSource? An administrator account Xerx3s on Abusewithus.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Subsequent analysis revealed earlier instances of suspicious code dating back to 2017. Importantly, our investigation, which considered binary timestamps, indicated that this exploit was created prior to April 2017. It is worth noting that the EternalBlue exploit was publicly disclosed by the Shadow Brokers group on April 14, 2017.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

“Using the internal router, it would be possible to poison the DNS cache of the LAN router of the infected node, enabling further attacks.” 911’s EULA would later change its company name and address in 2017, to International Media Ltd. In a 2017 discussion on fl.l33t[.]su in the British Virgin Islands.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A not-so-new attack vector Evidence collected and analyzed by GERT suggests that this attack exploited an old vulnerability related to Struts2 (CVE-2017-5638 – Apache Struts2), targeting a financial company. (#dm=@ognl.OgnlContext@DEFAULT_MEMBER_ACCESS).(#_memberAccess?(#_memberAccess=#dm):((#cont _memberAccess?(#_memberAccess=#dm):((#cont

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

After obtaining a valid account, they use this account to access the victim’s VPN, Citrix or another remote service that allows access to the network of the victim. Information regarding these remotes services is taken from the mailbox, cloud drive, or other cloud resources accessible by the compromised account.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

InsightIDR comes with several dashboard views that give administrators visibility into network activity like firewall traffic, blocked traffic by port and IP, total DNS traffic, and DNS queries. These firms include Logentries in 2015, Komand in 2017, and DivvyCloud in 2020. Rapid7 Competitors. billion.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

“We run web hosting business and due to your post we got very serious problems especially no data center was accepting us,” Riaz wrote in a May 2017 email. As I noted in 2015, The Manipulaters Team used domain name service (DNS) settings from another blatantly fraudulent service called ‘ FreshSpamTools[.]eu

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2019

FlawedGrace is a full-featured RAT that we first observed in November 2017.” ” The TA505 group was first spotted by Proofpoint back 2017, it has been active at least since 2015 and targets organizations in financial and retail industries. The support for “.bit” bit, arepos[.]bit).null.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

group_a : from 2016 to August 2017 2. group_b : from August 2017 to January 2018 3. Indeed during the group_a, the main observed delivery techniques where about Phishing (rif.T1193) and Valid Accounts (rif.T1078). Many techniques have been used since August 2017 such as: Command Line Interface (rif. T1027), WebShell (rif.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2019

The Necurs botnet was not active for a long period at the beginning of 2017 and resumed its activity in April 2017 when it was observed using a new technique to avoid detection. Experts pointed out that DGA is a double-edged sword because allows security researchers to analyze DNS and network traffic to enumerate bots.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Other interesting function is “j2aYhH”: Figure 8 – Accounts and emails stealing. This function searches for all email accounts registered on victim machine. Last DNS activity was in December 2018. Figure 14 – previous DNS of C2. This IP is already know at scientific community and labeled as malicious.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

change DNS settings to hijack the traffic, perform MitM attacks). ” In previous research, Kenin discovered similar flaws ( CVE-2017-5521 ) in at tens of models of Netgear routers that were potentially affecting over one million Netgear customers. ” reads the security advisory. ” continues the advisory.

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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. ICYMI, Equifax forced to pull offline a huge database of consumer data guarded only by credentials "admin/admin" [link] — briankrebs (@briankrebs) September 13, 2017.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2019

Security expert uncovered a DNS hijacking campaign targeting organizations in various industries worldwide and suspects Iranian APT groups. “ Experts monitored the activities of threat actors between January 2017 and January 2019. . “ Experts monitored the activities of threat actors between January 2017 and January 2019.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

This included all contacts, sent and received messages with attached files, names of chats/channels, name and phone number of the account owner – the target’s entire correspondence. Upon startup, this backdoor makes a type A DNS request for the <hex-encoded 20-byte string> u.fdmpkg[.]org org domain.

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Malware Ransomware Encryption Energy and Utilities 98

SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

In some cases, we saw what looked like the compromise of an existing registered company and the subsequent use of its resources such as social media accounts, messengers and email to initiate business interaction with the target. We found they generally stick to CVE-2017-0199, using it again and again before trying something else.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2019

Then, depending on the returned value, it runs a couple of privilege escalation exploits able to bypass the UAC (User Account Control) feature, a well known security mechanism introduced since Vista to avoid unauthorized system configuration changes. The first one targets the Windows versions lower than 8.1, 10 IP address located in Russia.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2020

By all accounts it is installed on millions of devices across the world. It looks like the bug was introduced in February 2017, almost three years ago: [link]. The modification to /etc/hosts is required to emulate a man-in-the-middle (or compromised DNS) situation. The OpenWRT package manager. Exploitation. Remediation.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2020

By all accounts it is installed on millions of devices across the world. It looks like the bug was introduced in February 2017, almost three years ago: [link]. The modification to /etc/hosts is required to emulate a man-in-the-middle (or compromised DNS) situation. The OpenWRT Package Manager. Exploitation. Remediation.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 25, 2020

By all accounts it is installed on millions of devices across the world. It looks like the bug was introduced in February 2017, almost three years ago: [link]. The modification to /etc/hosts is required to emulate a man-in-the-middle (or compromised DNS) situation. The OpenWRT Package Manager. Exploitation. Remediation.

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DNS Software Architecture Accountability 52

Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2023

Oftentimes this is credential data, but it can be any data that may have financial value to an adversary; this includes paid online service accounts, cryptocurrency wallets, instant messenger, or email contacts lists, etc. 171:15555 Size ~234 KB Compiler: EP:Microsoft Visual C/C++ (2017 v.15.5-6) Trojan.Mystic.KV 18:13219 142.132.201[.]228:13219

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Valid Accounts [ T1178 ]. Account Discovery [ T1087 ]. Valid Accounts [ T1078 ]. Valid Accounts [ T1078 ]. Valid Accounts [ T1078 ]. Much of this traffic is comprised of suspicious DNS queries, which point to known or likely Command and Control sites. CVE-2017-9841. Percent of. organizations.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

In the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers, Censornet was a Niche Player in 2017 and 2018. For the Forrester Wave for Cloud Security Gateways, Imperva was a Contender in 2016 and 2017, and Forcepoint was a Strong Performer in 2021. Recognition for Censornet. The product is well rated by users and analysts alike.

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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). The attribution of tools used in a cyber-attack can sometimes be a very tricky issue.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The attacker can then define an admin account, setting the home directory to the root of C: drive. In 2017, CyberArk published findings on a new attack vector related to certificate signing. With user account credentials, attackers had a suite of email, documents, and data at their fingertips. Mail DNS controls.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2023

Cybersecurity firm Sucuri has been tracking Balada Injector activity since 2017 but has only recently given this long-running campaign its name. The Elementor Pro and WooCommerce compromise path allows authenticated users to modify WordPress configurations to create administrator accounts or inject URL redirects into website pages or posts.

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Cisco Security

MAY 27, 2022

In addition to the Meraki networking gear, Cisco Secure also shipped two Umbrella DNS virtual appliances to Black Hat Asia, for internal network visibility with redundancy, in addition to providing: . This means that each of our Cisco staff members can have an individual SecureX sign-on account to log into the various consoles.

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

By its second day, Mirai already accounted for half of all Internet telnet scans observed by our collective set of honeypots, as shown in the figure above. In an unexpected development, on September 30, 2017, Anna-senpai, Mirai’s alleged author, released the Mirai source code. C2 domain from DNS expansion. feseli.com.

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IoT DDOS Internet Internet 107

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Compared to its predecessors, the sixth “Hi-Tech Crime Trends” report is the first to contain chapters devoted to the main industries attacked and covers the period from H2 2018 to H1 2019, as compared to the period from H2 2017 to H1 2018. The largest bank card data leaks are related to compromises of US retailers.

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Banking Telecommunications Marketing Internet 84

SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

Further investigation of the Sunburst backdoor revealed several features that overlap with a previously identified backdoor known as Kazuar , a.NET backdoor first reported in 2017 and tentatively linked to the Turla APT group. Stalkerware is the digital tip of a very real-world iceberg. — Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 31, 2020.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The bot infiltrated the devices through the CVE-2017-6079 vulnerability, which allows execution of arbitrary commands. In some cases, DNS amplification was also used. Like CVE-2017-6079, this vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands. For instance, Moobot added a relatively fresh vulnerability to its arsenal.

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DDOS Cryptocurrency Marketing Accountability 110

eSecurity Planet

JULY 28, 2021

More robust security for Domain Name Systems (DNS). Launched in 2017, Mumbai-based Block Armour offers a cybersecurity platform for unifying network access across enterprise and IoT environments. Decentralized data storage that removes the need for a honeypot. Securing edge devices with identity authentication. Block Armour.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2018

Many of the domains used by COBALT DICKENS were registered between May and August 2018, most of them resolved to the same IP address and DNS name server. Department of Justice indicted the Mabna Institute and nine Iranian nationals in connection with COBALT DICKENS activity occurring between 2013 and 2017.”

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Attempts to run malware for stealing money from online bank accounts were stopped on the computers of 99,989 unique users. The former threatened files accessible from the internet over SMB protocol and protected by a weak account password. Web Anti-Virus recognized 251,288,987 unique URLs as malicious. Local threats.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In 2017, more than 300,000 WordPress websites were affected by a malicious plugin that allowed an attacker to place embedded hidden links on victim websites. By obtaining sensitive authentication access, attackers can break into the vendor network or user account. These trojans target the login and user account data of online gamers.

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SecureList

MAY 26, 2021

Attempted infections by malware designed to steal money via online access to bank accounts were logged on the devices of 79,315 users. During the reporting period, Kaspersky solutions blocked attempts to launch one or more malicious programs designed to steal money from bank accounts on the computers of 79,315 users. Threat geography.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 11, 2023

If I have just one user account, I'll do some basic authorization testing, trying to access stuff logged out, but I can only access logged in if there are multiple user accounts, it gets way more complicated. But almost every time there's multiple user accounts, I found, like multiple user roles, I found authorization issues.

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