Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2021

Mozi is an IoT botnet that borrows the code from Mirai variants and the Gafgyt malware , it appeared on the threat landscape in late 2019. According to the researchers, in the last months of 2019, the botnet was mainly involved in DDoS attacks. .” SecurityAffairs – hacking, Mozi botnet). Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. Researchers detected Roaming Mantis-related malware over 6,800 times for more than 950 unique users in the period between February 25 and March 20, 2019. SecurityAffairs – Roaming Mantis, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

China-linked cyberespionage group LightBasin hacked mobile telephone networks around the world and used specialized tools to access calling records. CrowdStrike researchers reported that at least 13 telecommunication companies were compromised by since 2019. ” reads the report published by Crowdstrike.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2019

The campaign uncovered by Avast aimed at silently modifying the Brazilian users’ Domain Name System (DNS) settings to redirect victims to malicious websites mimicking legitimate ones. “ Malware then guesses routers’ passwords , which new research from Avast shows are often weak. ” states the analysis published by Avast.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2021

Experts noticed that the malware also downloads more shell scripts that retrieve brute-forcers that could be used to target devices protected with weak passwords. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Mirai). “The attacks are still ongoing at the time of this writing. “The IoT realm remains an easily accessible target for attackers.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Cisco addresses CVE-2019-12643 critical flaw in virtual Service Container for IOS XE. USBAnywhere BMC flaws expose Supermicro servers to hack. Cyber Defense Magazine – September 2019 has arrived. Some Zyxel devices can be hacked via DNS requests. Twitter temporarily disables feature to tweet via SMS after CEO hack.

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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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Pink botnet). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Shotliff shared an April 2014 password reset email from Black Hat World, which shows he forwarded the plaintext password to the email address legendboy2050@yahoo.com. The only experience listed for Khafagy prior to the TikTok job is labeled “Marketing” at “Confidential,” from February 2014 to October 2019.

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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. SecurityAffairs – Webmin, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Mozi is an IoT botnet that borrows the code from Mirai variants and the Gafgyt malware , it appeared on the threat landscape in late 2019. According to the researchers, in the last months of 2019, the botnet was mainly involved in DDoS attacks. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Mozi botnet). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2019

DNS hijacking campaigns target Gmail, Netflix, and PayPal users. Adobe Patch Tuesday updates for April 2019 address 43 flaws in its products. Microsoft April 2019 Patch Tuesday fixes Windows 0days under attack. SAP April 2019 Security Patch Day addresses High severity flaws in Crystal Reports, NetWeaver. Kindle Edition.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

The expert Bob Diachenko has discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch install belonging to a UK security firm that contained 5 billion records of data leaked in previous incidents that took place between 2012 and 2019. ” wrote Security Discovery’s researcher Bob Diachenko.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

Security expert Marco Ramilli has analyzed the recently leaked APT34 hacking tool tracked as Jason – Exchange Mail BF. This time is the APT34 Jason – Exchange Mail BF project to be leaked by Lab Dookhtegan on June 3 2019. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. Original Leak.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2019

Attackers hacked support agent to access Microsoft Outlook email accounts. Locked Shields 2019 – Chapeau, France wins Cyber Defence Exercise. CVE-2019-0803 Windows flaw exploited to deliver PowerShell Backdoor. RCE flaw in Electronic Arts Origin client exposes gamers to hack. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy.

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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2020

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.”. Another protocol exploited by threat actors in the wild is the Web Services Dynamic Discovery (WS-DD), experts observed large scale DDoS attacks in May and August 2019.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

31, 2019, Rezvesz said his company recently was the subject of an international search warrant executed jointly by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). In an “official press release” posted to pastebin.com on Mar.

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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

The expert Bob Diachenko has discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch install belonging to the security firm Keepnet Labs that contained 5 billion records of data leaked in previous incidents that took place between 2012 and 2019. ” wrote Security Discovery’s researcher Bob Diachenko.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 12, 2021

This case exposed a vast list of Microsoft support records at the end of 2019. The problem occurred because the Microsoft workers modified the privacy settings of the Azure system failing to protect it with passwords or MFA. Malefactors used 45 of the hacked accounts in Bitcoin-based scams. . The leakage lasted for one month.

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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.” su between 2016 and 2019. .” “It also enables the end user to probe the LAN network of the infected node,” the paper continues. A cached copy of flashupdate[.]net

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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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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Shah provides her expertise in hacking, software development, and kernel development and advocates for open source initiatives. lazydocker : A simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose : [link] pic.twitter.com/HsK17rzg8m — Binni Shah (@binitamshah) July 1, 2019. — Jason Haddix (@Jhaddix) July 27, 2019.

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SecureList

JUNE 7, 2023

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. Android malware, used by Roaming Mantis, and discovered a DNS changer function that was implemented to target specific Wi-Fi routers used mainly in South Korea.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

It is sensitive because years of testing shows whoever wields it would have access to an unending stream of passwords, email and other proprietary data belonging to hundreds of thousands of systems at major companies around the globe. Now, facing 70 and seeking to simplify his estate, O’Connor is finally selling corp.com.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Before jumping into the technical details regarding each new malware detected and proper safeguards, here is a brief look at the events to date: Sep 2019. This malware infiltrated SolarWinds in September 2019 with the expert insertion of code to avoid detection. Mail DNS controls. Sunburst compiled and deployed for March update.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

Security expert Marco Ramilli published the findings of a quick analysis of the webmask project standing behind the DNS attacks implemented by APT34 (aka OilRig and HelixKitten ). According to Duo, “ OilRig delivered Trojans that use DNS tunneling for command and control in attacks since at least May 2016. Source: MISP Project ).

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DNS Computers and Electronics Penetration Testing Government 78

Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2019

The infection chain is composed by different stages of password protected SFX (self extracting archive), each containing vbs or batch scripts. Execution of “ winupd.exe ” (SFX) and relative password (uyjqystgblfhs). Information about C2 and relative DNS. This time using the string “ gblfhs ” as password. Malicious e-mail.

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Passwords DNS Engineering Malware 63

Cisco Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

At each conference, we have a hack-a-thon: to create, prove, test, improve and finally put into production new or improved integrations. XDR (eXtended Detection and Response) Integrations At Black Hat USA 2023, Cisco Secure was the official Mobile Device Management, DNS (Domain Name Service) and Malware Analysis Provider.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2019

NCSC report warns of DNS Hijacking Attacks. SAP Patch Day – July 2019 addresses a critical flaw in Diagnostics Agent. CVE-2019-6342 flaw allows hackers to fully compromise Drupal 8.7.4 Slack resetting passwords for roughly 1% of its users. The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy.

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

A41APT is a long-running campaign, active from March 2019 to the end of December 2020, that has targeted multiple industries, including Japanese manufacturing and its overseas bases. The first vulnerability ( CVE-2019-5544 ) can be used to carry out heap overflow attacks. — Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 31, 2020.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The theft of UK-US trade documents leaked before the 2019 General Election. The 2018 hack of the Institute for Statecraft, a UK think tank engaged in initiatives to safeguard democracy against disinformation. Once notified, the DNS provider took action to mitigate actor-controlled domains abusing their service.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The service was obviously rather popular because within days the tech (and mainstream) headlines were proclaiming that thousands of hacked Disney+ accounts were already for sale on hacking forums. So why doesn't every site take away the ability for people to choose their own passwords? passwords ?? Password manager?

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1834 — French Telegraph System — A pair of thieves hack the French Telegraph System and steal financial market information, effectively conducting the world’s first cyberattack. 1870 — Switchboard Hack — A teenager hired as a switchboard operator is able to disconnect and redirect calls and use the line for personal usage. .

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