Security Boulevard

AUGUST 12, 2022

The CA will issue challenges (DNS or HTTPS) requiring the agent to take an action that demonstrates control over said domain(s). Back in 2015, when Let’s Encrypt was was just emerging as a certificate-authority force, Josh Aas, the ISRG's executive director said that "Encryption should be the default for the web. Related posts.

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SecureList

APRIL 24, 2023

Introduction We introduced Tomiris to the world in September 2021, following our investigation of a DNS-hijack against a government organization in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The following map shows the countries where we detected Tomiris targets (colored in green: Afghanistan and CIS members or ratifiers).

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Fox IT

JUNE 23, 2020

We believe those changes were ultimately caused by the unsealing of indictments against Igor Olegovich Turashev and Maksim Viktorovich Yakubets , and the financial sanctions against Evil Corp in December 2019. WastedLocker aims to encrypt the files of the infected host. This is described in more detail in the String encryption section.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

During the 2019 holiday season, the Barracuda research team analyzed 4,200 Android apps related to shopping, Santa, and games. Moving away from trying to trick users, pharming leverages cache poisoning against the DNS , using malicious email code to target the server and compromise web users’ URL requests. RAM Scraper.

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Veracode Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The FBI first began tracking TrickBot modules in early 2019 as it was used by cyberattackers to go after large corporations. Researchers found that TrickBot developers created a tool called anchor_dns which uses a single-byte X0R cipher to obfuscate communications and, once de-obfuscated, is discoverable in DNS request traffic.

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SecureList

JUNE 15, 2022

Complex attacks almost invariably feature several phases, such as reconnaissance, initial access to the infrastructure, gaining access to target systems and/or privileges, and the actual malicious acts (data theft, destruction or encryption, etc.). Revenue: 8kk+$ (information is current as of 2019). Country: France. Price: 300$.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

It was on a project that Dan Kaminsky presented at Discourse 2019. I first met Dan when he was literally saving the world; okay, at least saving the internet as we know it today by disclosing to the major ISPs in the world a flaw he’d found in the Domain Name System or DNS. When was the backup made? CODEN: Exactly.

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