Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The hackers were able to change the Domain Name System (DNS) records for the transaction brokering site escrow.com so that it pointed to an address in Malaysia that was host to just a few other domains, including the then brand-new phishing domain servicenow-godaddy[.]com.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Experts attribute the attack to a known threat actor tracked as xHunt , aka Hive0081, which was first discovered in 2018. The TriFive backdoor uses an email-based channel that uses Exchange Web Services (EWS) to create drafts within the Deleted Items folder of a compromised email account.” <C2 domain>.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

guru’s registration records also are hidden, yet passive domain name system (DNS) records for both cryptor[.]biz guru show that in 2018 the domains were forwarding incoming email to the address obelisk57@gmail.com. .” Crypt[.]guru’s biz and crypt[.]guru ” Meanwhile, the Jabber address masscrypt@exploit.im

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

15, 2018, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) charged then 27-year-old Bloom, of Thornhill, Ontario, with selling stolen personal identities online through the website LeakedSource[.]com. LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 25, 2018

On August 7, 2018, a user on the forum of free email service hMailServer posted a copy of the sextortion email he received, noting that it included a password he’d formerly used online. All of those two-name domains used domain name servers (DNS servers) from uscourtsgov-dot-com at the time these emails were sent. uscourtsgov[.]com.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 21, 2021

Back in 2018, almost two-thirds of the small businesses suffered from cyber security attacks. . One of the most common mistakes made by small businesses is that they adopt all new IT equipment and computers but leave their internet and Wi-Fi susceptible to external threats. Ensure Network Security . Final Thoughts. .

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Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

A whopping 97 percent failed to use DNSSEC , a domain security protocol designed to address core vulnerabilities in the foundations of the internet itself. Hackers were also quick to pounce on the disruption caused by the 2018 shutdown of the U.S. A Prime Target for Hackers.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2023

The standard enables email security solutions and internet service providers (ISPs) to filter in “good” emails and improve their ability to filter out “bad” emails. Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance is a protocol that was first proposed in January 2012 and widely adopted in 2018 by the U.S.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

These credentials are used in a credential stuffing or password spraying attack against the victim’s remote services, such as webmail or other internet reachable mail services. 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.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This archive is discreetly hosted on legitimate websites, cleverly disguised as firmware binaries for enigmatic devices labeled “m100” The Bitbucket repository was created on June 21, 2018, under the account of Julie Heilman, and it remains the sole repository associated with this profile. 8, 10.0.0.0/8, 8, 100.64.0.0/10,

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Malware DNS Encryption Cryptocurrency 108

Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

I want a "secure by default" internet with all the things encrypted all the time such that people can move freely between networks without ever needing to care about who manages them or what they're doing with them. Maybe they're plugging into the API directly from the account page there?

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The vulnerability is in MSHTML, the Internet Explorer engine. After 2018, we observed falling detection rates for FinSpy for Windows. Melcoz had been active in Brazil since at least 2018, before expanding overseas. The following timeline sums up the different steps of the campaign.

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SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

We reported about the first variant of such software back in 2018, but there were many other samples to be found, which was later reported by the US CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) in 2021. A compromised LinkedIn account of an actual company representative was used to approach a target and engage with them.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 3, 2023

However, searching passive DNS records at DomainTools.com for thedomainsvault[.]com Searching on ubsagency@gmail.com in Constella Intelligence shows the address was used sometime before February 2019 to create an account under the name “ SammySam_Alon ” at the interior decorating site Houzz.com. Thedomainsvault[.]com

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The new “ Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2019/2020 ” report describes attacks on various industries and critical infrastructure facilities, as well as campaigns aimed at destabilization of the Internet in certain countries. Internet destabilization at state level. As for 2019, it has become the year of covert military operations in cyberspace.

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Banking Telecommunications Marketing Internet 85

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Also read : Best Internet Security Suites & Software. Between 2016 and 2018, the malware strain SamSam made brute force RDP attacks an integral part of its attacks on several public organizations. On a Sunday in February 2018, the Colorado CISO’s office set up a temporary server to test a new cloud-based business process.

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VPN Software Authentication Encryption 111

SC Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

This approach extends far beyond assets with an IP address, however, including everything from certificates to S3 buckets to DNS misconfigurations. Bit Discovery was founded in February 2018 by CEO, Jeremiah Grossman, and CTO, Robert “RSnake” Hansen. All you need is an account. Company background. The company raised a $2.7m

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Marketing DNS Technology Internet 61

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

In the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers, Censornet was a Niche Player in 2017 and 2018. In the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers, Forcepoint was a Niche Player in 2018 and 2019 before becoming a Visionary in 2020. Recognition for Censornet. Forcepoint. Recognition for Forcepoint.

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Risk Firewall Authentication Encryption 128

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 10, 2021

The least common of SQL injection attacks, the out-of-band method relies on the database server to make DNS or HTTP requests delivering data to an attacker. . . . Because the Windows process generated by xp_cmdshell has the same security privileges as the SQL Server service account, the attacker can cause severe damage. .

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Penetration Testing Firewall Software Accountability 116

SC Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

This approach extends far beyond assets with an IP address, however, including everything from certificates to S3 buckets to DNS misconfigurations. Randori was founded in 2018 by Brian Hazzard, CEO, and David “moose” Wolpoff, CTO. When an account is created, the necessary resources are provisioned automatically.

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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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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. In 2020, when much of life shifted online, internet resources repeatedly suffered from surges in totally legitimate activity.

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DDOS Cryptocurrency Marketing Internet 129

Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2020

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DNS 78

DNS Advertising Surveillance Malware 78

SecureList

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In June, more than six months after DarkHalo had gone dark, we observed the DNS hijacking of multiple government zones of a CIS member state that allowed the attacker to redirect traffic from government mail servers to computers under their control – probably achieved by obtaining credentials to the control panel of the victims’ registrar.

Malware 140

Malware Government Surveillance Spyware 140

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

They hack into their teacher’s account and leave messages making fun of him. 1988 — The Morris Worm — Robert Morris creates what would be known as the first worm on the Internet. Air Force research facility, discover a password “sniffer” has been installed onto their network, compromising more than 100 user accounts.

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Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

After retrieving this information, the malware attempts to extract additional information like access tokens, account IDs, etc. To get more information about a user’s Facebook account, Disbuk queries Facebook Graph API. Stolen credentials can later be used to run ads from the compromised account.

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Malware Cryptocurrency Passwords Software 109

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Since 2018, access to an exhaustive report commissioned by the U.S. The data at issue refers to communications traversing the Domain Name System (DNS), a global database that maps computer-friendly coordinates like Internet addresses (e.g., DNS lookups from Alfa Bank constituted the majority of those requests.

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Banking DNS Internet Internet 361