The Last Watchdog

JULY 1, 2019

NormShield found that all of the 2020 presidential hopefuls, thus far, are making sure their campaigns are current on software patching, as well as Domain Name System (DNS) security; and several are doing much more. The reputation is shaped by how they communicate with citizens – mostly through email.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

However, that number has risen dramatically in 2020, a trend that businesses and individuals alike must NOT ignore. That number spiked significantly in 2020, where a Mid-Year Threat Landscape Report 2020 from Bitdefender shows a 715% year over year increase in detected and blocked ransomware attacks in 2020.

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Ransomware Backups Encryption Healthcare 40

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Cybercriminal behind the most prominent carding marketplace on the dark web Joker’s Stash retires, he will shut down its servers and destroy the backups. The sized sites were at jstash.bazar, jstash.lib, jstash.emc, and jstash.coin, which are all those accessible via blockchain DNS. ” reads the article published by Forbes.

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Vipre

JANUARY 25, 2021

According to the independent institute AV-TEST , the number of total new malware in 2020 increased by 13% compared to the last year, and malware for macOS by 1200% for the same period. Backup and Recovery Tools. DNS ad blockers are a new breed of ad blockers that use DNS to effectively block ads. Ad Blockers.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building a bulletproof hosting empire that once dominated the Russian cybercrime industry and supported multiple organized cybercrime groups. In 2020, Grichishkin was arrested outside of Russia on a warrant for providing bulletproof hosting services to cybercriminal gangs.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 has forced enterprises of all sizes and industries to adopt new work approaches that keep employees safe at home while ensuring productivity and security. To accommodate this increased demand, organizations can optimize VPN server use by using traffic steering at the DNS layer.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Display DNS resolver cache. As our telemetry and public reports did not identify any new Explosive RAT detections after 2020, but only old slightly modified toolsets (e.g., If the backups were restored at a later stage, the threat actor could regain persistent access and continue where they left off. cmd.exе /c sеt.

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Fox IT

JUNE 2, 2020

Publicly discovered in late April 2020, the Team9 malware family (also known as ‘Bazar [ 1 ]’) appears to be a new malware being developed by the group behind Trickbot. If it exists, it validates if the current loaders file path is the same as the one that has already been set in the registry value’s data (BackUp Mgr). Introduction.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2022

That attack was 140 percent larger than a 1 Tbps attack in 2020 and larger than any similar event ever detected on the Azure public cloud, they said. Ransomware attacks can be avoided by simply following best practices around information security, backups , and updates, but DDoS can occur despite doing everything correctly,” Rosen said.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The version of Free Download Manager installed by the infected package was released on January 24, 2020. They mention the dates 20200126 (January 26, 2020) and 20200127 (January 27, 2020). Upon startup, this backdoor makes a type A DNS request for the <hex-encoded 20-byte string> u.fdmpkg[.]org org domain.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

For example, the 2016 DDoS attack on the Dyn managed domain name service (DNS) caused the DNS service to fail to respond to legitimate DNS inquiries and effectively shut down major sites such as PayPal, Spotify, Twitter, Yelp, and many others. Also read: How to Secure DNS. In 2020 the U.S. Types of DDoS Attacks.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

VMware Carbon Black threat researchers have recorded a 900% year on year increase in ransomware attacks in the first half of 2020. Or they might move the data out slowly through protocols such as DNS. By now the attacker has achieved the first part of their goal.

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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. Besides using the Cobalt Strike beacon, the adversary also searches for VPN and firewall configs, possibly to function as a backup access into the network. The DNS-responses weren’t logged.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Inspecting the File (COFF) header, we observed the file’s compilation timestamp: TimeDateStamp: 05/12/2020 08:23:47 – Date and time the image was created. The PlugX families we observed used DNS [ T1071.001 ] [ T1071.004 ] as the transport channel for C2 traffic, in particular TXT queries. exe E370AA8DA0 Jumper64.dat.

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SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

bcf97660ce2b09cbffb454aa5436c9a0 Digital Asset Investment Stategy 2020 (ISO 27001).docx. 34239a3607d8b5b8ddd6797855f2e827 FasterCapital Introduction 2020 Oct.docx. bcf97660ce2b09cbffb454aa5436c9a0 Digital Asset Investment Stategy 2020 (ISO 27001).docx. domainhost.dynamic-dns[.]net. domainhost.dynamic-dns[.]net.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Recent research by Positive Technologies looked at the cyber threat landscape during Q2 2021 and found that ransomware attacks reached “stratospheric” levels, accounting for 69% of all malware attacks, a huge jump from 39% in Q2 2020. Automatic, secure 50 GB cloud backup. DNS filtering. Best Ransomware Removal Tools.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

encryption in transit Tools for remote management , global dashboards, and geo IP tracking Access to 24×7 DevOps team for technical support and remediating active threats Logical secure access including role-based access control, 2FA , and SSO Automate configuration backup and recovery for resilient policies and controls. SolarWinds.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2021

Prevent Rely solely on offline backups Disallow unnecessary file sharing. With initial access to a gateway, hackers can move laterally to an on-premises server, leading them to the internal DNS and Active Directory. Also Read: How to Prevent DNS Attacks. Old way New way. Detect Focus on encryption Assume exfiltration.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2023

WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4147.125 Safari/537.36 ” which has been observed by Sucuri repeatedly in compromised machine logs starting in late 2020 and well into the current period. Some are less obvious, such as ensuring sound DNS security through solutions like Cisco Umbrella or DNSFilter. Windows NT 10.0;

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Like in the case of SolarWinds in 2020, masked threat actors aren’t afraid to linger for months during reconnaissance. Other cybersecurity tools offered include DNS filtering, disk encryption , backups , and email security for Microsoft-oriented infrastructure. Extended Stays and Attack Execution.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In some cases, DNS amplification was also used. In addition, Glupteba uses the Bitcoin blockchain to store the addresses of backup C2 servers, making it harder to defeat. Let’s look at the figures: Comparative number of DDoS attacks, Q3 and Q4 2021, and Q4 2020. Q4 2020 data is taken as 100% ( download ).

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Fox IT

JUNE 23, 2020

WastedLocker is a new ransomware locker we’ve detected being used since May 2020. We believe it has been in development for a number of months prior to this and was started in conjunction with a number of other changes we have seen originate from the Evil Corp group in 2020. WastedLocker. CobaltStrike C&C Domains.

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Veracode Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

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. C:WindowsSysWOW64. The report notes that an open source tracker for TrickBot C2 servers is located here. BazarLoader and Ryuk ransomware.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

With over 600,000 devices, this botnet exposed just how vulnerable IoT devices could be and led to the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020. A strain of keylogger malware dubbed LokiBot notably increased in 2020. Often organizations can mitigate ransomware attacks by having up-to-date backups. with no internet. RAM Scraper.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

50,000 DDoS attacks on public domain name service (DNS) resolvers. 553% increase in DNS Flood attacks from 1H 2020 to 2H 2023. DDoS attacks on single networks or websites render them unavailable, but DDoS attacks on DNS resolvers bring down all networks and websites using that DNS resource. 50% cloud targets.

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SecureList

JUNE 15, 2022

2TB of 2020-2021 data: credentials related to banking accounts and the most popular services. 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! Screenshot translation. 2TB of logs] I will retrieve data from my databases on your requests.

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SecureList

JANUARY 28, 2021

2020 saw an unprecedented increase in the importance and value of digital services and infrastructure. What does all this mean for privacy? What does all this mean for privacy? How are governments and enterprises going to react to this in 2021?

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

Already a leading SD-WAN pick, the HPE subsidiary boosted its market position with acquisitions of security vendor Cape Networks in 2018 and WAN specialist Silver Peak Systems in 2020. Features: Open Systems Secure SD-WAN and SASE. Features: Versa SASE.

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