Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2019

The latest wave of attacks aimed at spreading phishing links via SMS messages (SMiShing), most of the victims were users in Russia, Japan, India, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Iran, and Vietnam. Attackers used a new method of phishing with malicious mobile configurations along with previously observed DNS manipulation technique.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

Most of APT28s’ campaigns leveraged spear-phishing and malware-based attacks, the recent mass scanning activity represents a change in the modus operandi of the group. Trend Micro investigated waves of the APT28’s targeted credential phishing attacks and collected thousands of email samples sent out by the group since 2014.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In March, a voice phishing scam targeting GoDaddy support employees allowed attackers to assume control over at least a half-dozen domain names, including transaction brokering site escrow.com. 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020. . ” In the early morning hours of Nov.

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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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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. ‘FATAL’ ERROR. to for a user named “ fatal.001.”

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The Manipulaters’ core brand in the underground is a shared cybercriminal identity named “ Saim Raza ,” who for the past decade across dozens of cybercrime sites and forums has peddled a popular spamming and phishing service variously called “ Fudtools ,” “ Fudpage ,” “ Fudsender ,” etc.

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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. Most of the data come from previously known source s, it could expose affected people to scams and phishing campaigns.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Cisco addresses CVE-2019-12643 critical flaw in virtual Service Container for IOS XE. Cyber Defense Magazine – September 2019 has arrived. Experts devised advanced SMS phishing attacks against modern Android-based phones. Some Zyxel devices can be hacked via DNS requests. Once again thank you!

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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. Adobe, Last.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. 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

APRIL 21, 2019

Locked Shields 2019 – Chapeau, France wins Cyber Defence Exercise. CVE-2019-0803 Windows flaw exploited to deliver PowerShell Backdoor. Analyzing OilRigs malware that uses DNS Tunneling. Facebook admitted to have stored millions of Instagram users passwords in plaintext. Broadcom WiFi Driver bugs expose devices to hack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 12, 2021

Ordinary users, or pawns, do not realize they do anything bad as they fall victim to phishing and different types of computer viruses sent via email. This case exposed a vast list of Microsoft support records at the end of 2019. Twitter got compromised as a result of highly targeted phishing campaigns. Ordinary users.

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SecureList

AUGUST 30, 2023

Tomiris called, they want their Turla malware back We first reported Tomiris in September 2021, following our investigation into a DNS hijack against a government organization in the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States). However, when we started hunting for more samples, we found phishing documents that ultimately dropped EarlyRat.

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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 attackers obtain initial access to a system by sending a spear-phishing email to the victim containing a Dropbox download link. The malware steals passwords from browsers and from the device’s memory, providing remote access to capture internet banking access. It also includes a Bitcoin wallet stealing module. Gamers beware.

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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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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

lazydocker : A simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose : [link] pic.twitter.com/HsK17rzg8m — Binni Shah (@binitamshah) July 1, 2019. Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp [link] — Schneier Blog (@schneierblog) August 1, 2019. — Jason Haddix (@Jhaddix) July 27, 2019. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Organizations can help prevent their computers from becoming part of a botnet by installing anti-malware software, using firewalls , keeping software up-to-date, and forcing users to use strong passwords. Always change the default passwords for any IoT devices you install before extended use. Phishing and Social Engineering.

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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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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

Lazarus made use of COVID-19 themes in its spear-phishing emails, embellishing them with personal information gathered using publicly available sources. 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.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

We have previously seen DustSquad use third-party post-exploitation tools, such as the password dumping utility fgdump; but we have now observed new custom C modules, a first for DustSquad, and Delphi downloaders acting as post-exploitation facilitators, able to gather documents of interest for the actor.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Threat actors can decrypt these files and dump the usernames, password hashes, computer names, groups, and other data. Web sessions and user passwords saved in the browser are available in hVNC sessions. This module is a password stealer module. However, in early 2019 an updated module was released. dat” q q.

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SecureList

JUNE 15, 2022

For example, use of data from stealer logs or password mining. Phishing attacks on employees. Revenue: 8kk+$ (information is current as of 2019). There is access data to 2-3 domains of that network, the total number is 3-4, I don’t know exactly, see the screenshot below for DNS servers! Country: France. Price: 300$.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The nation-state actor is carrying out spear-phishing attacks for cyberespionage purposes. In the past, the group’s activity involved persistent phishing and credential theft campaigns leading to intrusions and data theft. The theft of UK-US trade documents leaked before the 2019 General Election.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

A ransomware attack targeted the email systems at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport in April 2019. Common ways of defeating password controls include spraying, finding, intercepting, cracking, guessing, relaying, bypassing, and even asking for passwords. Can password hashes be intercepted and relayed or passed?

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1962 — Allan Scherr — MIT sets up the first computer passwords, for student privacy and time limits. Student Allan Scherr makes a punch card to trick the computer into printing off all passwords and uses them to log in as other people after his time runs out. She connects him to any phone number he requests for free.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The infection vector of NullMixer is based on a ‘User Execution’ (MITRE Technique: T1204) malicious link that requires the end user to click on and download a password-protected ZIP/RAR archive with a malicious file that is extracted and executed manually. The user extracts the archived file with the password. SmokeLoader.

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