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. Sea Turtle also used code from a publicly accessible GitHub account, which is likely under the control of the threat actor.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

Other Privnote phishing domains that also phoned home to the same Internet address as pirwnote[.]com com is currently selling security cameras made by the Chinese manufacturer Hikvision , via an Internet address based in Hong Kong. Searching DomainTools for domains that include both of these terms reveals pirwnote[.]com.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

BitSight researchers found significant overlap in the Internet addresses used by those domains and a domain called BHproxies[.]com. The account didn’t resume posting on the forum until April 2014. Reached via LinkedIn, Mr. Shotliff said he sold his BHProxies account to another Black Hat World forum user from Egypt back in 2014.

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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

The nation-state hackers are scanning the entire internet, in search of vulnerable webmail and Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover servers that expose TCP ports 445 and 1433. In May 2019, the experts noticed that the group started using hacked email addresses of numerous high-profile targets to send credential spam messages.

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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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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. ARI is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Internet Draft authored by Let’s Encrypt as an extension to the ACME protocol.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 21, 2022

ESG Research says 69% of organizations have suffered a cyberattack that began with the exploitation of an unknown, unmanaged, or misconfigured internet-facing asset. While these aren’t generally the most critical assets, if these are exposed to the internet, they are easily available to attack by threat actors. What can be done.

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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 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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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. 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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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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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. Only version 1.890 is affected also in the default configuration.

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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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SecureList

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Notably, no other intelligence was shared until 2021, which led us to speculate on a possible shift by the threat actor to more fileless/LOLBINS techniques, and the use of known/common offensive tools publicly available on the internet that allows them to blend in. Display DNS resolver cache. Contact us: intelreports@kaspersky.com.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2019

Security expert uncovered a DNS hijacking campaign targeting organizations in various industries worldwide and suspects Iranian APT groups. “ Experts monitored the activities of threat actors between January 2017 and January 2019. . “ Experts monitored the activities of threat actors between January 2017 and January 2019.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The vulnerability is in MSHTML, the Internet Explorer engine. We started detecting some suspicious backdoored installer packages (including TeamViewer, VLC Media Player and WinRAR); then in the middle of 2019 we found a host that served these installers along with FinSpy Mobile implants for Android.

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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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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

At issue is a problem known as “ namespace collision ,” a situation where domain names intended to be used exclusively on an internal company network end up overlapping with domains that can resolve normally on the open Internet. INSTANT CORPORATE BOTNET, ANYONE? Department of Homeland Security. Control corp.com.”

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The PlugX families we observed used DNS [ T1071.001 ] [ T1071.004 ] as the transport channel for C2 traffic, in particular TXT queries. Another clue that helped us was the use of DNS tunneling by Winnti which we discovered traces of in memory. The hardcoded 208.67.222.222 resolves to a legitimate OpenDNS DNS server.

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SecureList

JUNE 7, 2023

MotW is a Windows security measure — the system displays a warning message when someone tries to open a file downloaded from the internet. Roaming Mantis implements new DNS changer We continue to track the activities of Roaming Mantis (aka Shaoye), a well-established threat actor targeting countries in Asia.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Group-IB, has analyzed key recent changes to the global cyberthreat landscape in the “Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2019/2020” report. According to Group-IB’s experts, the most frustrating trend of 2019 was the use of cyberweapons in military operations. As for 2019, it has become the year of covert military operations in cyberspace.

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The spam folder: that dark and disregarded corner of every email account, full of too-good-to-be-true offers, unexpected shipments, and supposedly free giveaways. Credit card fraud amounted to $172 million in 2021 and has been climbing continuously at a conservative rate of 15-20 percent since 2019. Problems with your account.

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Scams Phishing Malware Internet 143

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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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Also read : Best Internet Security Suites & Software. Meanwhile, the suspect server was connected to the CDOT domain with an administrator account and the internet. Additional security features include IP login restrictions, session timeouts, 2FA, and account lockouts for brute force attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

with no internet. By obtaining sensitive authentication access, attackers can break into the vendor network or user account. For malicious keyloggers outside your organization, initial access to a device or user’s account would be necessary. In 2016, the Mirai botnet attack left most of the eastern U.S. Browser Hijacker.

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SecureList

JUNE 15, 2022

I will buy accounts for access to corporate VPNs or firewalls (FortiGate, SonicWall, PulseSecure, etc.) A special mention should be made of the method for capturing legitimate accounts based on stealers. 2TB of 2020-2021 data: credentials related to banking accounts and the most popular services. Screenshot translation.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

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. Ensure enterprise data transfers remain in native cloud accounts and are protected at rest. Identify account takeovers. Recognition for Forcepoint. iboss Features.

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

For example, before making the first internet connection to its C2s, the Sunburst malware lies dormant for up to two weeks, preventing easy detection of this behaviour in sandboxes. The first vulnerability ( CVE-2019-5544 ) can be used to carry out heap overflow attacks.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It targets the storage databases of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge. The browsers Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge are targeted. However, in early 2019 an updated module was released. cookiesDll32. The module steals cookie data from web browsers. domainDll32. fscanDll32.

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Banking Passwords VPN Internet 136

Cisco Security

AUGUST 29, 2022

I looked at the equipment list from 2019, that was documented in the Bart and Grifter presentation, and estimated we needed to source an additional 150 Cisco Meraki MR AP (with brackets and tripods) and 70+ Cisco Meraki MS switches to build the Black Hat USA network in just a few weeks. Umbrella DNS : Christian Clasen and Alejo Calaoagan.

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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. 19, 2019 and currently serves over 50 paying customers, according to the company. Time-to-value: Allow 30 minutes for initial account setup and team configuration.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

The new ransomware dubbed JCry (extension used to rename encrypted files.jcry ) is part of the OpIsrael 2019 — an annual coordinated cyber attack against the Israeli government and private websites created with the stated goal of “erasing Israel from the Internet” in protest against the Israeli government’s conduct in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

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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.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

The new ransomware dubbed JCry (extension used to rename encrypted files.jcry ) is part of the OpIsrael 2019 — an annual coordinated cyber attack against the Israeli government and private websites created with the stated goal of “erasing Israel from the Internet” in protest against the Israeli government’s conduct in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

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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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