Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Crooks were able to trick GoDaddy staff into handing over control of crypto-biz domain names in a classic DNS hijacking attack. Crooks were able to hijack traffic and email to various cryptocurrency-related websites as a result of a DNS hijacking attack on domains managed by GoDaddy. SecurityAffairs – hacking, DNS hijacking).

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Your Web browser knows how to find a Web site name like example.com thanks to the global Domain Name System (DNS), which serves as a kind of phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly Web site names (example.com) into numeric Internet address that are easier for computers to manage. ” SAY WHAT? 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

Between 2017 and 2019, the APT group mainly used DNS hijacking in its campaigns. Sea Turtle also used code from a publicly accessible GitHub account, which is likely under the control of the threat actor. Create and enforce a password policy with adequate complexity requirements for specific accounts.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

HYAS said it quickly notified the French national computer emergency team and the FBI about its findings, which pointed to a dynamic domain name system (DNS) provider on which the purveyors of this attack campaign relied for their various malware servers. There is a third Skype account nicknamed “Fatal.001”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The account didn’t resume posting on the forum until April 2014. A search on jesus.fn.christ@gmail.com at Constella Intelligence , a company that tracks compromised databases, shows this email address is tied to an account at the fundraising platform omaze.com, for a Brian Shotliff from Chesterland, Ohio. com on Mar.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

In May 2019, the experts noticed that the group started using hacked email addresses of numerous high-profile targets to send credential spam messages. The group was observed using this scheme between 2019 and 2020, and according to the experts, most of the compromised email accounts belong to defense companies in the Middle East.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

For example, this account at Medium has authored more than a dozen blog posts in the past year singing the praises of Tornote as a secure, self-destructing messaging service. A review of the passive DNS records tied to this address shows that apart from subdomains dedicated to tornote[.]io, io seem like a legitimate website.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 18, 2021

During the live program, we presented our research into the Lyceum group (also known as Hexane), which was first exposed by Secureworks in 2019. As in the older DanBot instances, both variants supported similar custom C&C protocols tunneled over DNS or HTTP.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

And in May of this year, GoDaddy disclosed that 28,000 of its customers’ web hosting accounts were compromised following a security incident in Oct. 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020. “This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. .

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Brian Krebs shared this on Twitter this morning: Confirmed: The DNS records that tell systems how to find [link] or [link] got withdrawn this morning from the global routing tables. FB alone is in control over its DNS records.". "To That's per @DougMadory , who knows a few things about BGP/DNS.". Why is Facebook down?

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2019

But when accounts at those CRM providers get hacked or phished, the results can be damaging for both the client’s brand and their customers. Salesforce told KrebsOnSecurity that this was not a compromise of Pardot, but of a Pardot customer account that was not using multi-factor authentication.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts. In a legal settlement that is quintessentially Canadian, the matter was resolved in 2019 after Defiant Tech agreed to plead guilty.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 30, 2024

If the BOF is used to query logged on users on localhost, the fully qualified computer DNS name from GetComputerNameExW is used. Targeting the lab’s Server 2019 host ( OXENFURT ) with the BOF (where our simulated initial access user has admin rights) reveals several users logged in, either interactively or via a service (Figure 2).

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The number of infected devices is impressive, on 2019-11-30 a trusted security partner in the US informed Qihoo 360’s Netlab Cybersecurity reported to have observed 1,962,308 unique daily active IPs from the Pink botnet targeting its systems. According to the experts, Pink is the largest botnet they have observed in the last six years.

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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 As I noted in 2015, The Manipulaters Team used domain name service (DNS) settings from another blatantly fraudulent service called ‘ FreshSpamTools[.]eu Bilal Waddaich).

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

NCC Group and Fox-IT observed this threat actor during various incident response engagements performed between October 2019 until April 2020. 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

JUNE 5, 2023

Satacom downloader, also known as LegionLoader, is a renowned malware family that emerged in 2019. It is known to use the technique of querying DNS servers to obtain the base64-encoded URL in order to receive the next stage of another malware family currently distributed by Satacom. To do so, it performs a DNS request to don-dns[.]com

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Cisco addresses CVE-2019-12643 critical flaw in virtual Service Container for IOS XE. One million cracked Poshmark accounts being sold online. Cyber Defense Magazine – September 2019 has arrived. Some Zyxel devices can be hacked via DNS requests. CVE-2019-15846 Exim mail server flaw allows Remote Code Execution.

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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.” However there are two cybercriminal identities on the forums that have responded to individual 911 help requests, and who promoted the sale of 911 accounts via their handles.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2019

Attackers hacked support agent to access Microsoft Outlook email accounts. Gnosticplayers round 5 – 65 Million+ fresh accounts from 6 security breaches available for sale. Gnosticplayers round 5 – 65 Million+ fresh accounts from 8 security breaches available for sale. Analyzing OilRigs malware that uses DNS Tunneling.

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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. Between 2019 and 2020, Rapid7’s gross revenue increased by more than 26%, from $326 million to $411 million. Rapid7 Competitors.

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Google Security

MAY 25, 2023

Google Trust Services now offers our ACME API to all users with a Google Cloud account (referred to as “users” here), allowing them to automatically acquire and renew publicly-trusted TLS certificates for free. The ACME API is free and available to anyone with a Google Cloud account. How do I use it? Please see the Public CA Tutorial.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2019

Nine 2019 Cybersecurity Predictions. First Google security patches for Android in 2019 fix a critical flaw. Microsoft January 2019 Patch Tuesday updates fix 7 critical vulnerabilities. Alleged Iran-linked APT groups behind global DNS Hijacking campaign. Reddit locked Down accounts due to alleged security breach.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

This time is the APT34 Jason – Exchange Mail BF project to be leaked by Lab Dookhtegan on June 3 2019. Although there was information about APT34 prior to 2019, a series of leaks on the website Telegram by an individual named “ Lab Dookhtegan ”, including Jason project, exposed many names and activities of the organization.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2019

It allows users using web browsers to set up user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. News of the day is that Webmin contained a remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-15107, for more than a year. ehakkus) August 11, 2019.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

“Fast forwarded to October 11, 2019, our Anglerfish honeypot captured another suspicious ELF sample, and it turned out to be the Downloader of the previous suspicious ELF sample.” It allows users using web browsers to set up user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 12, 2021

But do you know that a good deal of the danger accounts for insiders? This case exposed a vast list of Microsoft support records at the end of 2019. The information contained reservation info, guests’ contact details, and account data. These accounts, compromised in July 2020, included both private and corporate users.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In the JPMorgan Chase case, it was an exposed database from an acquired subsidiary that was compromised, ultimately resulting in 83 million accounts being exposed. Most of these third-party connections come via domain name system (DNS) canonical name (CNAME) records or application programming interface (API) calls. They’re simply not.

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McAfee

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

In this case, SolarWinds knew as far back as 2018, early 2019, that they had a registration domain registered for it already. And they didn’t even give it a DNS look up until almost a year later. But the code application 2019 was weaponization in 2020. They knew they were going after a very specific vendor.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

group_d : from March 2019 to August 2019 The evaluation process would take care of the following Techniques: Delivery , Exploit , Install and Command. Indeed during the group_a, the main observed delivery techniques where about Phishing (rif.T1193) and Valid Accounts (rif.T1078). group_a : from 2016 to August 2017 2.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

Today’s columnist, Raj Badhwar of Voya Financial, says to prevent cloud-based breaches like the one that happened to Capital One in 2019, security teams need to develop an enterprise cloud operating model based on a cloud-first approach. CreativeCommons CC BY-NC 2.0. Core Cloud Native Services: Consists of core cloud services (e.g.,

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2020

At the time of the report, the threat actor carried out a cyber espionage campaign by redirecting DNS traffic from domains owned by the Lebanon government to target entities in the country. In April 2019, Cisco Talos discovered evidence of the link between APT34 ( codename Helix Kitten or OilRig ) and the “ DNSEspionage” operation.

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Spinone

AUGUST 12, 2019

Legal hold, both in Google and in O365, is included in the most expensive subscription plans, making it unreasonable to pay around $12/month per account for keeping that data. Using Spinbackup for these purposes would be the most cost-effective option to save the archived data without migrating them to the new O365 account.

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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. lazydocker : A simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose : [link] pic.twitter.com/HsK17rzg8m — Binni Shah (@binitamshah) July 1, 2019. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2020

At the time of the report, the threat actor carried out a cyber espionage campaign by redirecting DNS traffic from domains owned by the Lebanon government to target entities in the country. In April 2019, Cisco Talos discovered evidence of the link between APT34 ( codename Helix Kitten or OilRig ) and the “ DNSEspionage” operation.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 3, 2022

originate from a GitHub account , and are either used as is or are slightly modified. Display DNS resolver cache. We’ve barely seen Explosive RAT since 2019. More information about DeftTorero is available to customers of Kaspersky Intelligence Reporting. Contact us: intelreports@kaspersky.com. cmd.exе /c sеt. PathProcess.

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