Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2021

“The attacks are still ongoing at the time of this writing. “The attacks are still ongoing at the time of this writing.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 18, 2022

In 2020, the SolarWinds supply chain attack opened backdoors into thousands of organizations (including government agencies) that used its services, while late last year, the far-reaching Log4J exploit exploded onto the scene. So why aren’t more organizations taking advantage of protective DNS? So where do we go from here?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In August, Volexity researchers reported that a China-linked APT group, tracked as StormBamboo (aka Evasive Panda , Daggerfly , and StormCloud), successfully compromised an undisclosed internet service provider (ISP) in order to poison DNS responses for target organizations. The company linked the attacks to StormBamboo APT group.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 23, 2020 What appears to have happened is that in order to address "security vulnerabilities on the plug", TP-Link issued a firmware update that killed the HA integration. Looks like @tplinkuk broke it with a firmware update which will now break a bunch of stuff around the house.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2022

The Trickbot operation has switched to using MikroTik routers as C&C servers since 2020. It also looks for scheduled tasks, traffic redirection rules (NAT and other rules), DNS cache poisoning, default port changes, non-default users, suspicious files, as well as proxy, SOCKS and firewall rules. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 14, 2022

NetScout’s latest Threat Intelligence Report found more DDoS attacks in the first half of 2021 compared to the whole of 2020. Since 2020, through various waves of DDoS extortion campaigns we’ve witnessed, this trend holds true. It is architected for nonstop DNS availability and high performance, even across the largest DDoS attacks.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 16, 2021

The European Union is concerned enough that it drafted a resolution in November 2020 to ban end-to-end encryption, prompting outcry from privacy advocates. In this blog I’ll describe two recent privacy advances—DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and QUIC—and what we’re doing to maintain visibility. Keeping your destination private: DNS over HTTPS.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 12, 2021

The design flaws were assigned the following CVEs: CVE-2020-24588 : Aggregation attack (accepting non-SPP A-MSDU frames). CVE-2020-24587 : Mixed key attack (reassembling fragments encrypted under different keys). CVE-2020-24586 : Fragment cache attack (not clearing fragments from memory when (re)connecting to a network).

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

InsightIDR comes with several dashboard views that give administrators visibility into network activity like firewall traffic, blocked traffic by port and IP, total DNS traffic, and DNS queries. These firms include Logentries in 2015, Komand in 2017, and DivvyCloud in 2020. Rapid7 Competitors. The Forrester Wave.

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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.”. In February, Radware researchers reported that attackers were abusing the CVE-2020-2100 flaw in 12,000+ internet-facing Jenkins servers to mount reflective DDoS attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 26, 2020

I had a lively discussion at RSA 2020 with one of these vendors, Accedian , a 15-year-old company based in Montreal, Canada. So I may have a frontend web-tier server in one location, a backend database server in another location and application-tier server in yet another location, all hitting DNS servers.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Cloudflare One Cloudflare released their initial SASE offering in October 2020 and continues to add features and capabilities. The lowest tier of Cloudflare One provides support for 50 users maximum, 24 hours of activity logging, and up to three network locations for office-based DNS filtering.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2020

The academic researcher James Pavur, speaking at Black Hat 2020 hacking conference , explained that satellite internet communications are susceptible to eavesdropping and signal interception. An attacker could use $300 worth of off-the-shelf equipment to eavesdrop and intercept signals from satellite internet communications.

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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. EdgeConnect Enterprise critically comes with firewall , segmentation , and application control capabilities. Features: Cato Edge SD-WAN and SASE.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The package also sets two registry values under the key “HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession Manager” and runs a.vbs script that creates a Windows firewall rule to block incoming connections on ports 135, 139, and 445. . The final backdoor is a DLL file protected by the VMProtect.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2023

Traditional networking either causes operations bottlenecks by forcing all traffic to route through centralized firewalls or exposes remote assets and cloud resources to attack. Implementing SASE Bottom Line: Implement SASE to Improve Security and Operations What Problem Does SASE Solve?

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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.

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McAfee

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

And they didn’t even give it a DNS look up until almost a year later. But the code application 2019 was weaponization in 2020. The majority of this tactic took place from a C2 perspective through the partial exfiltration being done using DNS. The attempts to bypass the firewalls can be turned into detections.

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In their 2021 Internet Crime Report , the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) said that Non-Payment / Non-Delivery scams such as these led to more than $337 million in losses, up from $265 million in 2020. According to Cisco Umbrella , many of the sites asking for credit card details are known phishing sites, or worse, host malware.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 30, 2021

million attacks reported in the first half of 2020 – an increase of more than 250% compared to the same period in 2019. Engineers can also measure traffic patterns for a given application via the total number of DNS queries, DNS replies, HTTP requests received, or HTTP connections established on a per-hour basis.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 10, 2021

The least common of SQL injection attacks, the out-of-band method relies on the database server to make DNS or HTTP requests delivering data to an attacker. . . . Raise Virtual or Physical Firewalls. We strongly recommend using a software or appliance-based web application firewall (WAF) to help filter out malicious data. .

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2021

Whether it’s a VPN , firewall , or remote access server, unauthorized entry via network gateways is a problem. 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. Gateway Compromise.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

In the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers, Broadcom was a Challenger in 2020. In the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers, Forcepoint was a Niche Player in 2018 and 2019 before becoming a Visionary in 2020. In the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateways, iboss was a Visionary in 2020.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Botnet based on Medusa, working since 2020. DNS changer Malicious actors may use IoT devices to target users who connect to them. A 2022 campaign known as Roaming Mantis, or Shaoye, spread an Android app whose capabilities included modifying DNS settings on Wi-Fi routers through the administration interface. Our advantages: 1.

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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. Check Point is a veteran enterprise security vendor that integrates remote access capabilities into every next-generation firewall (NGFW). Extended Stays and Attack Execution. Check Point.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 29, 2023

Executive summary Credential harvesting is a technique that hackers use to gain unauthorized access to legitimate credentials using a variety of strategies, tactics, and techniques such as phishing and DNS poisoning. of cases in 2020. According to recent research , phishing assaults targeted credential harvesting in 71.5%

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

The ManageEngine OpManager Plus includes a bundle of tools for bandwidth and traffic analysis (NetFlow Analyzer), networking performance monitoring (OpManager), and tools for firewalls , IP addresses, switch ports, and configuration policies. Catchpoint Features. SolarWinds. The Austin-based IT vendor serves 99.6%

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Pricing & Delivery Pricing for Versa’s SASE product was originally called Versa Secure Access and announced in 2020 to start at $7.50 IT teams can still apply policies, receive reports, and view analytics using the Versa Titan Portal. per user per month without limitation for the number of devices.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 30, 2021

For example, Illumio was named a Leader by Forrester Research in The Forrester Wave: Zero Trust eXtended (ZTX) Ecosystem Platform Providers, Q3 2020. Express Micro-Tunnels have built-in failover and don’t require DNS resolution. There are no ACL or firewall rules to maintain, making it easy to install and configure in seconds.

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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. DNS filtering. A range of firewall appliances that include ransomware protection.

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McAfee

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Use of “domain age” is a feature being promoted by various firewall and web security vendors as a method to protect users and systems from accessing malicious internet destinations. In the first quarter of 2020 an average of over 40,000 domains were registered per day. Domain Age Feature Definition.

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Internet Internet DNS Risk 65

McAfee

AUGUST 23, 2020

WAN optimization and QoS, as well as various other edge network and security functions like firewall filtering that are better suited to being performed at the network edge, deliver the fastest and most reliable user experience, while minimizing the traffic burden on the central network. However, there are major drawbacks to this model.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The file runs on Linux machines and has been uploaded on Virus Total for the first time in December 2020. Since April 2020, when the Kinsing crypto miner was discovered, further developments of the malware have occurred including a rootkit component and other features that make detection harder.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

TeamTNT has been one of the most active threat groups since mid 2020. Keep minimal exposure to the Internet on Linux servers and IoT devices and use a properly configured firewall. Exfil Domain in DNS Query. As of August 30, 2021, many malware samples still have zero antivirus (AV) detections and others have low detection rates.

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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. DNS ad blockers are a new breed of ad blockers that use DNS to effectively block ads.

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SecureList

JUNE 15, 2022

I will buy accounts for access to corporate VPNs or firewalls (FortiGate, SonicWall, PulseSecure, etc.) 2TB of 2020-2021 data: credentials related to banking accounts and the most popular services. Screenshot translation. or take them for further attack development. I have a small team. Revenue from 150kk and higher. but garments etc.!

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