Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

September 23, 2020. Qurium analyzes the blocking implemented by four different operators in Belarus Belarus operators use their own infrastructure to implement the blocking Block techniques include transparent web proxies, injection of HTTP responses, stateless and stateful SSL DPI and fake DNS responses. They still remain blocked.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

But we do know the March 2020 attack was precipitated by a spear-phishing attack against a GoDaddy employee. GoDaddy described the incident at the time in general terms as a social engineering attack, but one of its customers affected by that March 2020 breach actually spoke to one of the hackers involved.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

internet service providers (ISPs) as part of a cyber espionage campaign code-named Salt Typhoon. internet service providers in recent months as part of a cyber espionage campaign code-named Salt Typhoon. internet-service providers in recent months in pursuit of sensitive information, according to people familiar with the matter.”

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2023

The site’s true WHOIS registration records have always been hidden by privacy protection services, but there are plenty of clues in historical Domain Name System (DNS) records for WorldWiredLabs that point in the same direction. A review of DNS records for both printschoolmedia[.]org DNS records for worldwiredlabs[.]com

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In Q4 2020, Citrix ADC (application delivery controller) devices became one such tool, when perpetrators abused their DTLS interface. The DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security) protocol is used to establish secure connections over UDP, through which most DNS queries, as well as audio and video traffic, are sent.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 23, 2024

At issue is a well-known security and privacy threat called “ namespace collision ,” a situation where domain names intended to be used exclusively on an internal company network end up overlapping with domains that can resolve normally on the open Internet. SSL/TLS certs). ” Caturegli said setting up an email server record for memrtcc.ad

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2020

Microsoft July 2020 addressed 123 security flaws across 13 products, including a 17-year-old wormable issue for hijacking Microsoft Windows Server dubbed SigRed. Microsoft July 2020 addressed 123 security vulnerabilities impacting 13 products, none of them has been observed being exploited in attacks in the wild.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2020

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

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2020

In March 2020, The Ministry of Telecommunications (MoTC) issued a directive to all operators in Myanmar with a secret list of 230 sites to be blocked due to the nature of the content; adult content and fake news. In April 2020, Telenor complied with the directive and blocked ALL sites on the block list. Original post at: [link].

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The victim, through no fault of their own, has been the target of numerous angry tweets designed to ridicule their role in internet security and suggest they are incapable of performing their duty. — NordVPN (@NordVPN) October 23, 2020 Ah, tricky! Been a lot of "victim blaming" going on these last few days. — Bartek ?wierczy?ski

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 28, 2021

The group looks for attacks on Exchange systems using a combination of active Internet scans and “honeypots” — systems left vulnerable to attack so that defenders can study what attackers are doing to the devices and how. I’d been doxed via DNS. ” What was the subdomain I X’d out of his message?

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020. “This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. . “This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2021

DirtyMoe is a Windows botnet that is rapidly growing, it passed from 10,000 infected systems in 2020 to more than 100,000 in the first half of 2021. The module that implements the warm capabilities was spotted scanning the internet and performing password brute-force attacks against Windows systems with SMB port open online.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 11, 2021

After examining topics such as the MITRE ATT&CK framework , LOLBins , and others, this release will look at DNS traffic to malicious sites. We’ll also look at malicious DNS activity—the number of queries malicious sites receive. Organizations and malicious DNS activity. Overview of analysis. Cryptomining.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

There is no indication these are the real names of the phishers, but the names are useful in pointing to other sites targeting Privnote since 2020. Other Privnote phishing domains that also phoned home to the same Internet address as pirwnote[.]com A search at DomainTools.com for privatenote[.]io com , privatemessage[.]net

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 6, 2024

Threat Intelligence Report Date: August 6, 2024 Prepared by: David Brunsdon, Threat Intelligence - Security Engineer, HYAS Dynamic DNS (DDNS) is a service that automatically updates the Domain Name System (DNS) in real-time to reflect changes in the IP addresses of a domain.

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Webroot

MARCH 29, 2021

An endpoint DNS solution could have stopped the Trojanized Orion version by refusing to resolve the domain names of the command-and-control servers, again disrupting the infection to the point that no real damage could be done. Every employee’s home network has a different set of security protocols and internet use is unregulated.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The attack was launched by a Mirai botnet variant composed of 15,000 bots, it combined DNS amplification attacks and UDP floods. The botnet included Internet of Things (IoT) devices and GitLab instances. “This was a multi-vector attack combining DNS amplification attacks and UDP floods. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 18, 2020

On December 13, 2020 FireEye published important details of a newly discovered supply chain attack. For instance, before making the first internet connection to its C2s, the Sunburst malware lies dormant for a long period, of up to two weeks, which prevents an easy detection of this behavior in sandboxes. avsvmcloud[.]com”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2020

DDoS protection services provider Radware warns the Hoaxcalls Internet of Things (IoT) botnet has expanded the list of targeted devices, the experts also noticed that the operators implemented new distributed denial of service (DDoS) capabilities. The botnet was initially designed to launch DDoS attacks using UDP, DNS and HEX floods. .

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2021

The botnet appeared in the threat landscape in November 2020, in some cases the attacks leveraged recently disclosed vulnerabilities to inject OS commands. CVE-2020-7961 – Java unmarshalling flaw via JSONWS in Liferay Portal (in versions prior to 7.2.1 CE GA2) (disclosed on March 20, 2020). ” continues the analysis.

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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? The issue likely comes down to awareness.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

BitSight researchers found significant overlap in the Internet addresses used by those domains and a domain called BHproxies[.]com. Before that, the resume says he was operations manager of TikTok’s Middle East and North Africa region for approximately seven months ending in April 2020. million from private investors.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 21, 2021

The vulnerabilities disclosed by the JSOF team have been listed as CVE-2020-25687 , CVE-2020-25683 , CVE-2020-25682 , CVE-2020-25684 , CVE-2020-25685 , CVE-2020-25686 and CVE-2020-25681. Basically, you could say DNS is the phonebook of the internet. What is DNS cache poisoning?

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Krebs on Security

JULY 3, 2023

However, searching passive DNS records at DomainTools.com for thedomainsvault[.]com SammySam_Alon registered at Houzz using an Internet address in Huntsville, Ala. In 2018, KrebsOnSecurity published How Internet Savvy are Your Leaders? Thedomainsvault[.]com 68.35.149.206).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Unlike other IoT DDoS botnets, Ttint implements 12 remote access functions such as Socket5 proxy for router devices, tampering with router firewall and DNS settings, executing remote custom system commands. ” When the botnet was first detected in 2019, experts noticed it was exploiting the Tenda zero-day flaw tracked as CVE-2020-10987.

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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. Our goal is to help organizations create more secure ecoystems to support a free and fair election processes.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The affected system was a Windows server exposed to the internet, with only two ports open. Open ports exposed to the Internet Identification and containment In October 2024, telemetry alerts from our MDR technology revealed attempts by an internal IP address to access registry hives via an admin account on a customer’s Windows server.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. Or are they just the same old risks we've always had with data stored on the internet?

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 30, 2022

The so-called ZuoRAT campaign, which very likely started in 2020, is so sophisticated that the researchers suspect that there is a state sponsored threat actor behind it. The threat actor can then use DNS hijacking and HTTP hijacking to cause the connected devices to install other malware. DNS hijacking. SOHO routers.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

They will look for dependencies locally, on the computer where a project resides, and they will check the package manager’s public, Internet-accessible, directory. Getting the information to his own server from deep inside well-protected corporate networks posed yet another problem which was solved by using DNS exfiltration.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2020

“Prevasio would like to thank Zetalytics for providing us with an updated (larger) list of passive (historic) DNS queries for the domains generated by the malware.” link] pic.twitter.com/40VfXuR6JI — RedDrip Team (@RedDrip7) December 16, 2020. NetBios HTTP Backdoor 2020-07-03 barrie.ca appsync-api.us-west-2[.]avsvmcloud[.]com.

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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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Cisco Security

MARCH 16, 2021

Hiding internet activity strengthens privacy—but also makes it easier for bad actors to infiltrate the network. 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. Keeping your destination private: DNS over HTTPS.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 and that targets Docker installs. Below the attack chain documented by the reseachers from Palo Alto Networks: The attacker targeted an unsecured Kubelet on the internet and searched for containers running inside the Kubernetes nodes.

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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. The sites and domains of the internet are constantly changing and evolving. The concept is to use domain age as a generic traffic filtering parameter.

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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2020

In December 2018, security experts from Trend Micro discovered that some machine-to-machine (M2M) protocols can be abused to attack IoT and industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems. 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.”.

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