Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The list includes Amazon (banned in 2018), Google (2018), Microsoft (2022), and Cloudflare (2015). For a “normal” connection to a website, a Domian Name System (DNS) finds the IP address for the requested domain name. They are also known as content distribution networks.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Russia successfully disconnected from the internet. Russia’s government announced that it has successfully concluded a series of tests for its RuNet intranet aimed at country disconnection from the Internet. One of them is checking the integrity and security of the Internet as a result of external negative influences.”

Internet 81

Internet Internet DNS Surveillance 81

Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

PT Monday evening, Escrow.com’s website looked radically different: Its homepage was replaced with a crude message in plain text: The profanity-laced message left behind by whoever briefly hijacked the DNS records for escrow.com. Running a reverse DNS lookup on this 111.90.149[.]49 Image: Escrow.com.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

Russia plans to disconnect the country from the internet as part of an experiment aimed at testing the response to cyber attacks that should isolate it. Russia plans to conduct the country from the Internet for a limited period of time to conduct a test aimed at assessing the security of its infrastructure. ” reported ZDNet.

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Internet Internet DNS Cyber Attacks 89

Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2021

The Windows botnet has been active since late 2017, it was mainly used to mine cryptocurrency, but it was also involved in DDoS attacks in 2018. The module that implements the warm capabilities was spotted scanning the internet and performing password brute-force attacks against Windows systems with SMB port open online.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 20, 2018

” For one thing, the booter services targeted in this takedown advertised the ability to “resolve” or determine the true Internet address of a target. Some resolvers also allowed customers to determine the Internet address of a target using nothing more than the target’s Skype username. Attorney Schroeder said.

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DNS Computers and Electronics Government Internet 176

Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2018

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) announced the presence of a serious flaw in the BIND DNS software that can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2018-5740 was discovered by Tony Finch of the University of Cambridge. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 12, 2018

In one of many robust internet debates (as is prone to happen on Twitter), the discussion turned to the value proposition of HTTPS on a static website. — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) July 5, 2018. This is from CVE-2018-12529 and the sample exploit was taken from the SecurityResearch101 blog. DNS Hijacking. Is it needed?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In early 2019, researchers spotted a new TrickBot backdoor framework dubbed Anchor that was using the anchor_dns tool for abusing the DNS protocol for C2 communications. Ryuk first appeared in the threat landscape in August 2018 as a derivative of the Hermes 2.1

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Healthcare Ransomware Cybercrime DNS 144

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The flaw discovered by SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab researchers has been tracked as CVE-2018-9195, the experts also published a proof-of-concept (PoC) code to trigger it. “ Fortinet products, including FortiGate and Forticlient regularly send information to Fortinet servers (DNS: guard.fortinet.com) on.

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Encryption Antivirus DNS Advertising 117

eSecurity Planet

MAY 24, 2023

A successful DKIM check also verifies ownership of the email by matching the organization in the “from” fields of the email with the DNS associated with the organization. DKIM Fundamentals The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) publishes full information on the DKIM and its standards, which were last updated in 2011.

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Technology DNS Encryption Authentication 101

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 27, 2018

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continue to erupt all across the Internet showing not the faintest hint of leveling off, much less declining, any time soon. Related video: How DDoS attacks leverage the Internet’s DNA. This is borne out by Akamai Technologies’ Summer 2018 Internet Security/Web Attack Report.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 12, 2021

This requires a robust connection to the Internet (Lumen and Gigamon), firewall protection (Palo Alto Networks), segmented wireless network (Commscope Ruckus) and network full packet capture & forensics and SIEM (RSA NetWitness); with Cisco providing cloud-based security and intelligence support. DNS traffic at Record Low.

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DNS Firewall Phishing Mobile 136

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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Scams Internet Internet Passwords 122

Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

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VPN Computers and Electronics Antivirus Software 296

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 Snugy backdoor uses a DNS tunneling channel to run commands on the compromised server. ” reads the analysis published by the experts. <C2 domain>.

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DNS Accountability Government Cyber Attacks 115

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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Hacking Social Engineering Phishing Scams 260

Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2019

Between September and December 2018 the experts observed a variant of the Redaman banking malware that was in Russian language and that was distributed via spam campaigns. “Since September of 2018, Redaman banking malware has been distributed through malspam. . ” Palo Alto Networks concludes.

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Banking Malware Advertising DNS 87

Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2020

In December 2018, security experts from Trend Micro discovered that some machine-to-machine (M2M) protocols can be abused to attack IoT and industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems. Some of the attacks observed by the experts peaked more than 350 Gigabits per second (Gbps, according to open-source reporting.

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DDOS IoT Internet Internet 110

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

This week a controversial law entered into effect in Russia, it would allow the government to cut internet traffic from the global Internet. This week a controversial law entered into effect in Russia, it would allow the Russian government to disconnect the country from the global Internet.

Internet 48

Internet Internet DNS Government 48

Cisco Security

AUGUST 11, 2021

We looked at REvil, also known as Sodinokibi or Sodin, earlier in the year in a Threat Trends blog on DNS Security. In it we talked about how REvil/Sodinokibi compromised far more endpoints than Ryuk, but had far less DNS communication. Figure 1-DNS activity surrounding REvil/Sodinokibi. Figure 19-Generic ransomware detection.

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Ransomware DNS Encryption Backups 126

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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2019

“To compromise targeted networks, GALLIUM target unpatched internet-facing services using publicly available exploits and have been known to target vulnerabilities in WildFly/JBoss.” ” The GALLIUM threat actor is active, but its activity was more intense between 2018 and mid-2019. ” continues the analysis.

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Telecommunications DNS Malware Advertising 68

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. The registration records for the website Cryptor[.]biz ” Crypt[.]guru’s biz and crypt[.]guru

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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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Technology Authentication DNS Phishing 95

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Hackers defaced Linux.org with DNS hijack. New threat actor SandCat exploited recently patched CVE-2018-8611 0day. Which are the worst passwords for 2018? A new Mac malware combines a backdoor and a crypto-miner. Duke-Cohan sentenced to three years in prison due to false bomb threats and DDoS. WordPress version 5.0.1

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DNS Advertising DDOS Government 51

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 107

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In April 2018, while monitoring public data feeds, we noticed an interesting and previously unknown backdoor using HackingTeam’s leaked RCS source code.” The scanner component also scans the Internet for servers that run services that have been left online exposed without a password or are using weak credentials.

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Cryptocurrency Malware Ransomware Cybercrime 91

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. A review of passive DNS records from DomainTools indicates that in 2013 pictrace[.]com Jordan Evan Bloom, posing in front of his Lamborghini.

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Hacking Accountability Data breaches Marketing 187

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. You’re a bank, this is precisely the sort of phishing pattern you should tell people not to fall for!

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VPN Phishing DNS Encryption 359

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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Hacking Retail Cyber Insurance Authentication 130

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Security firms such as Proofpoint and Eset analyzed other samples of the same threat targeting the Australian landscape back in May 2018 and, more recently, in Italy. This way, it inspects all incoming and outgoing internet traffic. In the last weeks, a new variant of the infamous Danabot botnet hit Italy. Man in the Browser.

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Banking Malware Internet Internet 75

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. This specific document described how to access the internet facing company portal and the web-based VPN client into the company network.

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VPN Accountability Passwords DNS 68

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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Malware Banking Energy and Utilities Accountability 86

IT Security Guru

APRIL 12, 2021

It is here when we add the fifth dimension in the form of OSINT, that we see the clear advantage of an extra layer of Intelligence which is derived from traversing and scraping the Internet open sources. These snippets may take the form of Data Leaks , P2P Communications , Metadata extractions , GPRS and EXIF image associated data.

Technology 54

Technology Penetration Testing Education DNS 54

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 87

Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2019

Few weeks ago, Unit42 discovered another active campaign , compatible with the Roma225 one we tracked on December 2018, pointing to some interesting changes into the attackers TTPs. HTAs are standalone applications that execute using the same models and technologies of Internet Explorer, but outside of the browser. ”. The Hidden HTA.

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