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A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks

Krebs on Security

” The DNS part of that moniker refers to the global “ D omain N ame S ystem ,” 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. PASSIVE DNS. That changed on Jan.

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Roaming Mantis implements new DNS changer in its malicious mobile app in 2022

SecureList

Kaspersky has been investigating the actor’s activity throughout 2022, and we observed a DNS changer function used for getting into Wi-Fi routers and undertaking DNS hijacking. At that time, the criminals compromised Wi-Fi routers for use in DNS hijacking, which is a very effective technique. Agent.eq (a.k.a

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Renewable Energy and Industrial Technology Firms Targeted in Extensive Cyber Espionage Operation

Heimadal Security

Since at least 2019, a massive cyber-espionage operation targeting mainly renewable energy and industrial technology entities has been operational, impacting more than fifteen organizations all over the world.

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CVE-2019-0604 SharePoint Remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability

Security Affairs

Having said that I found Income Tax Department India and MIT Sloan was also vulnerable to CVE-2019-0604 a remote code execution vulnerability which exists in Microsoft SharePoint. The application (incometaxindia.gov.in) was found to be vulnerable as it was using SharePoint as a technology to host its service. Pierluigi Paganini.

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ICANN Urges Greater Domain Name Security

Adam Levin

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), charged with overseeing Domain Name Systems (DNS), published an announcement that companies have moved too slowly to adopt security standards that would have mitigated several recent large-scale cyberattacks. This practice is called “DNS hijacking.”.

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Sunburst: connecting the dots in the DNS requests

SecureList

In the initial phases, the Sunburst malware talks to the C&C server by sending encoded DNS requests. These requests contain information about the infected computer; if the attackers deem it interesting enough, the DNS response includes a CNAME record pointing to a second level C&C server. avsvmcloud[.]com” avsvmcloud[.]com”

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Phish of GoDaddy Employee Jeopardized Escrow.com, Among Others

Krebs on Security

PT Monday evening, Escrow.com’s website looked radically different: Its homepage was replaced with a crude message in plain text: The profanity-laced message left behind by whoever briefly hijacked the DNS records for escrow.com. Running a reverse DNS lookup on this 111.90.149[.]49 Image: Escrow.com.

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