Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

In 2018, security intelligence firm HYAS discovered a malware network communicating with systems inside of a French national power company. When it didn’t hear from French authorities after almost a week, HYAS asked the dynamic DNS provider to “ sinkhole ” the malware network’s control servers.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2022

TrickBot is a popular Windows banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features, including powerful password-stealing capabilities. TrickBot initially partnered with Ryuk ransomware that used it for initial access in the network compromised by the botnet.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 12, 2021

For several years, Cisco Secure provided DNS visibility and architecture intelligence with Cisco Umbrella and Cisco Umbrella Investigate ; and automated malware analysis and threat intelligence with Cisco Secure Malware Analytics (Threat Grid) , backed by Cisco Talos Intelligence and Cisco SecureX. DNS traffic at Record Low.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2019

Roaming Mantis surfaced in March 2018 when hacked routers in Japan redirecting users to compromised websites. Attackers used a new method of phishing with malicious mobile configurations along with previously observed DNS manipulation technique. We have seen increased distribution of sagawa.apk Type A since late February 2019.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 25, 2018

The sextortion email scam last month that invoked a real password used by each recipient and threatened to release embarrassing Webcam videos almost certainly was not the work of one criminal or even one group of criminals. In early June 2018, uscourtsgov-dot-com was associated with a Sigma ransomware scam delivered via spam.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2019

According to Dragos, the Hexane group has been active since at least the middle of 2018, it intensified its activity since early 2019 with an escalation of tensions within the Middle East. Lyceum was observed using password spraying and brute-force attacks to compromise email accounts of targeted individuals.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2021

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

These are, of course, on top of the obviously ominous features such as password retrieval and key logging that are normally seen in Remote Access Trojans.”. ” “I am not your A-typical computer geek, Brian,” he wrote in a 2018 email. “I “This makes it harder for targets to remove it from their systems.

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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. frequently relied on the somewhat unique password, “ plk139t51z.” ” Crypt[.]guru’s

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The Novidade exploit kit leverages cross-site request forgery (CSRF) to change the Domain Name System (DNS) settings of SOHO routers and redirect traffic from the connected devices to the IP address under the control of the attackers. The exploit kit blindly attacks the detected IP address with all its exploits. .

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. 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. The marketing firm Apollo.io

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 21, 2021

Back in 2018, almost two-thirds of the small businesses suffered from cyber security attacks. . All businesses online and brick-and-mortar must have a cyber security plan in place because it is crucial for keeping your user data including passwords, and credit card numbers, secure and protected. . Protecting your data is very simple.

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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. According to our estimate, CoAP can reach up to 32 times (32x) amplification factor, which is roughly between the amplification power of DNS and SSDP.”.

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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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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.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2019

DNS hijacking campaigns target Gmail, Netflix, and PayPal users. Gulf countries came under hackers spotlight in 2018, with more than 130 000 payment cards compromised. WPA3 attacks allow hackers to hack Wi-Fi password. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

Credential theft and password spraying to Cobalt Strike. This adversary starts with obtaining usernames and passwords of their victim from previous breaches. 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.

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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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Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

Hackers were also quick to pounce on the disruption caused by the 2018 shutdown of the U.S. It should include an inventory of who can access registrar accounts, implementation of two-factor authentication, and password hygiene checks. federal government to hijack and tamper with government domain name entries.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

— Privacy 1st (@privacyis1st) August 20, 2018. The expert discovered also that the gathered info was first stored in a password protected zip file named “history.zip”, then it would be uploaded to a remote server. Below a video created by Privacy_1st to show his findings.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

As I noted in 2015, The Manipulaters Team used domain name service (DNS) settings from another blatantly fraudulent service called ‘ FreshSpamTools[.]eu Whoever controlled the Saim Raza cybercriminal identity had a penchant for re-using the same password (“lovertears”) across dozens of Saim Raza email addresses.

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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.” Nor does it require customers to create passwords: Each subscription can be activated just by entering a Mullvad account number (woe to those who lose their account number). ”

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Troy Hunt

JULY 19, 2018

If you have an efficient function that executes quickly it can be extremely cost effective as I recently demonstrated with the Pwned Passwords figures : So here's the hard facts - I'm dipping into my pocket every week to the tune of. for you guys to do 54M searches against a repository of half a billion passwords ??

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The last bit is particularly important as I logon and would firstly, like my password not to be eavesdropped on and secondly, would also like to keep my financial information on the website secure. So what about DNS over HTTPS, or DoH ?

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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.

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Malware Banking Energy and Utilities Accountability 86

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. In the last weeks, a new variant of the infamous Danabot botnet hit Italy. Istead, the function “f4” manages the traffic and performs a Man-In-The-Browser attack. Conclusion.

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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. org domain. Otherwise, the reverse shell is created by the crond backdoor itself.

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SecureList

AUGUST 30, 2023

Since 2018, Lazarus has persistently targeted crypto-currency-related businesses for a long time, using malicious Word documents and themes related to the crypto-currency business to lure potential targets. The threat actor not only develops its own tools, but also uses open source or commercially available implants and offensive tools.

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Malware Spyware Cryptocurrency Government 73

Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

agarwal_mohit) January 5, 2018. I think the URL is right but it seems inaccessible from other countries: [link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) January 9, 2018. Security /= George blocking — Vatsalya Goel (@vatsalyagoel) January 9, 2018. — Khas Mek (@KhasMek) January 10, 2018. FergusInLondon) January 10, 2018.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Normally account take overs are due to insecure passwords or recovery options, this is definitely something different. — Jack Daniel (@jack_daniel) October 10, 2018. jaysonstreet) March 3, 2018. — Kevin Mitnick (@kevinmitnick) January 20, 2018. — Dave Kennedy (@HackingDave) July 15, 2020.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Remote desktop software’s sensitive influence over other devices means identity and access management (IAM), password security , and multi-factor authentication are critical for risk management. Between 2016 and 2018, the malware strain SamSam made brute force RDP attacks an integral part of its attacks on several public organizations.

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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. domainhost.dynamic-dns[.]net. The group is currently active (recent activity was spotted in November 2021). abiesvc.jp[.]net.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 5, 2021

According to SaveBreach , Security Researcher Vinoth Kumar discovered a password that belongs to SolarWinds update server has been leaked to Github since 2018. It is unclear whether the attackers have utilized the weak password in the attacks, but it shows the weakness of SolarWinds security posture.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 3, 2023

However, searching passive DNS records at DomainTools.com for thedomainsvault[.]com In January 2019, Houzz acknowledged that a data breach exposed account information on an undisclosed number of customers, including user IDs, one-way encrypted passwords, IP addresses, city and ZIP codes, as well as Facebook information. 68.35.149.206).

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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. . . . Therefore encryption and hashing passwords, confidential data, and connection strings are of the utmost importance. . Out-of-band. Encryption: Keep Your Secrets Secret.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

We had initially analyzed this Delphi malware in April 2018. In July 2021, we reported the previously unknown Tomiris Golang backdoor , deployed against government organizations within a CIS country through DNS hijacking. We exposed similarities between DarkHalo’s SunShuttle backdoor and the Tomiris implant.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 9, 2023

HCLTech continues to develop the AppScan software , which now offers five different versions: AppScan CodeSweep (free), AppScan Standard (DAST), AppScan Source (SAST), AppScan Enterprise (SAST, DAST, IAST, and risk management), and AppScan on Cloud (SAST, DAST, IAST, and SCA).

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