Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2019

In August 2018, three members of the notorious cybercrime gang have been indicted and charged with 26 felony counts of conspiracy, wire fraud, computer hacking, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. . The messages sent to the victims were also dropping the backdoor DNSbot that primarily operates over DNS traffic.

Identity Theft 75

Identity Theft Hacking Advertising DNS 75

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. As of 2023, it is trading at around $150.

Malware 107

Malware DNS Encryption Cryptocurrency 107

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

— Privacy 1st (@privacyis1st) August 20, 2018. Patrick Wardle by redirecting DNS resolution was able to capture the exfiltrated data: The history.zip file is exfiltrated to a remote to dscan.yelabapp.com that is hosted on Amazon AWS servers, but the analysis of the DNS entries confirms that it is administered by an entity in China.

Adware 49

Adware DNS Malware Advertising 49

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The common acronym in nearly all of Saim Raza’s domains over the years — “FUD” — stands for “ F ully U n- D etectable,” and it refers to cybercrime resources that will evade detection by security tools like antivirus software or anti-spam appliances.

Software 232

Software Phishing Cybercrime Accountability 232

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. org domain. We also published a report on a new version of the Lumma stealer.

Malware 91

Malware Ransomware Encryption Energy and Utilities 91

SecureList

NOVEMBER 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 86

Malware Banking Energy and Utilities Accountability 86

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 8, 2023

It can be time consuming to establish these protocols on an organization’s DNS servers, but doing so will provide two key benefits. Email security tools offer features that screen emails for malicious content using antivirus, anti-spam, DNS, attachment, and other analytics.

Firewall 79

Firewall DNS Authentication Malware 79

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Sometimes, antivirus products will detect the presence of these malicious scripts and block users from visiting compromised sites, but for better or worse none of the sites I mentioned here currently are flagged as malicious by any of the more than five dozen antivirus tools at the file-scanning service virustotal.com.

Antivirus 224

Antivirus Hacking DNS Internet 224

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Russian software engineer Eugene Kaspersky’s frustration with the malware of the 80s and 90s led to the founding of antivirus and cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky Lab. Graham Cluley started as a videogame developer and antivirus programmer three decades ago before serving in senior roles at Sophos and McAfee.

Accountability 139

Accountability Cybersecurity Penetration Testing InfoSec 139

Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2019

Firefox finally addressed the Antivirus software TLS Errors. Sodin Ransomware includes exploit for Windows CVE-2018-8453 bug. Godlua backdoor, the first malware that abuses the DNS over HTTPS (DoH). A cyberattack took offline websites of the Georgia agency. After 2 years under the radars, Ratsnif emerges in OceanLotus ops.

Scams 48

Scams Spyware DNS Advertising 48

SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

Although Lyceum still prefers taking advantage of DNS tunneling, it appears to have replaced the previously documented.NET payload with a new C++ backdoor and a PowerShell script that serve the same purpose. Moreover, the malware mentioned by Google matched ThreatNeedle – malware that we have been tracking since 2018.

Malware 139

Malware Spyware Government Social Engineering 139

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. trump-email.com).

Banking 360

Banking DNS Internet Internet 360