The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2019

The author of Mirai used a sledgehammer to kill a fly: the DDoS bombardment was so large that it also wiped out Dyn , a UK-based internet performance vendor. The Spamhaus attacker, for instance, noticed that there were literally millions of domain name system (DNS) resolvers that remained wide open all over the internet.

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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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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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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

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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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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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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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

13, 2020, which was the date the fraudsters got around to changing the domain name system (DNS) settings for e-hawk.net. That alert was triggered by systems E-HAWK had previously built in-house that continually monitor their stable of domains for any DNS changes.

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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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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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NetSpi Technical

OCTOBER 19, 2023

As these are pointing at localhost, it is very likely this is being used as a way to prevent outbound internet access. Moving on, lets see if we can get outbound internet access. It looks like there is no route out from the container to the Internet. Let’s try DNS. Let’s see if we can connect to that and grab the HTML.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Among the vulnerabilities is CVE-2024-21412 , an Internet Shortcut Files flaw that allows an unauthenticated attacker to send a malicious file to a user. It bypasses Internet Shortcut Files’ security measures. The vulnerability, CVE-2020-3259 , was first discovered in May 2020.

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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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Malwarebytes

APRIL 25, 2023

From there, further research identified a DNS signature not related to Pupy components. Infoblox claims that this unique DNS signature for Decoy Dog “ matches less than 0.0000027% of the 370 million active domains on the internet ” Pupy itself has been seen in numerous nation state attacks and other serious compromises.

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

Between 2017 and 2019, the APT group mainly used DNS hijacking in its campaigns. Reduce the number of systems that can be reached over internet using SSH. The researchers believe that the Turkey-linked APT Sea Turtle has been active since at least 2017. Enable 2FA on all externally exposed accounts.

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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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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

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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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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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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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 8, 2022

The signature-based email authentication technique called DKIM merges the specifications for domain keys and identified-internet-mail specifications. A public key is stored with the Domain Name System (DNS) for download by any email server receiving emails with the encrypted digital signature. DMARC Implementation and Fees.

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SecureList

JULY 25, 2022

There, CosmicStrand sleeps for 10 minutes and tests the internet connectivity of the infected machine. DNS requests are performed in this fashion, using either Google’s DNS server (8.8.8[.]8) 2020-05-03. 2020-05-03. 2020-07-25. 2020-07-25. 2020-03-09. 2020-07-25. 2020-03-09.

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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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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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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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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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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

A nurse cares for a coronavirus COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit at Regional Medical Center on May 21, 2020 in San Jose, California. To implement it, hospitals must simply direct their DNS domains toward specially made IP addresses set up by Akamai, where the center can then implement its domain blocking policies.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2021

million customers Adobe addresses two critical vulnerabilities in Photoshop Hamburg’s data protection agency (DPA) states that using Zoom violates GDPR Kalay cloud platform flaw exposes millions of IoT devices to hack Fortinet FortiWeb OS Command Injection allows takeover servers remotely 1.9

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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2020

The NetBlocks internet observatory, which tracks disruptions and shutdowns, revealed that Iran has blocked access to the Farsi (Persian) language edition of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia since March 2nd, 2020. All other language editions were available in the country, except the Hebrew that was blocked in the past.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 9, 2021

million, financial services firms are laser-focused on cloud vulnerabilities, attacks against internet-of-things devices and other prevalent threats. . The report is based on a survey of 814 senior-level IT executives in the financial services industry in October and November 2020. With data breaches causing an average loss of $4.2

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 1, 2022

According to Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs, this sophisticated campaign “has been active in North America and Europe for nearly two years beginning in October 2020.”. The attacks include ZuoRAT, a multi-stage remote access Trojan (RAT) that specifically exploits known vulnerabilities in SOHO routers to hijack DNS and HTTP traffic.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 28, 2020

This means that while you will create a new DNS record, similar to SPF, you will also have to generate “keys” for your DKIM process to work correctly. BIG NOTE: A major part of DKIM is that the “private key” will need to be placed on your email server, while the “public key” will go in your DNS record.

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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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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Luckily you can start to make a difference right now by implementing some changes to your DNS records. So for example, if you registered your website “www.mycompany.com” with GoDaddy, you would edit your DNS record on GoDaddy. Now that you have your list, head to your DNS provider and add a new entry. www.hivesystems.io).

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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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