Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

Between 2017 and 2019, the APT group mainly used DNS hijacking in its campaigns. Create and enforce a password policy with adequate complexity requirements for specific accounts. Store passwords in a secrets management system, that can also be used by development environments.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 28, 2020

— NordVPN (@NordVPN) October 23, 2020 Ah, tricky! That and slashed zeros, and maybe a warning popup for URLs visually similar to (but different from) popular ones, would go a long way to mitigate it — Jon (@heeerrresjonny) October 25, 2020 So. That’s how [link] became [link]. — Bartek ?wierczy?ski Poor Googie!

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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. A review of the passive DNS records tied to this address shows that apart from subdomains dedicated to tornote[.]io, A search at DomainTools.com for privatenote[.]io com , privatemessage[.]net

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Webroot

MARCH 29, 2021

We learned, for instance, that even IT pros could use a refresher on basic password hygiene through security awareness training. Firewalls embed threat intelligence and DNS security solutions are used to both block malware and control internet use. DNS security solutions are one way of addressing this risk.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The vulnerability, CVE-2020-3259 , was first discovered in May 2020. Changing passwords, secrets, and pre-shared keys. February 19, 2024 ExpressVPN Split Tunneling Disabled after Discovered Vulnerability Type of vulnerability: DNS traffic leak. Enabling logging. Patching the software to a non-vulnerable version.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2021

Experts noticed that the malware also downloads more shell scripts that retrieve brute-forcers that could be used to target devices protected with weak passwords. “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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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2022

TrickBot is a popular Windows banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features, including powerful password-stealing capabilities. The Trickbot operation has switched to using MikroTik routers as C&C servers since 2020. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In fact, there were 50% more attack attempts per week on corporate networks globally in 2021 than in 2020. DNS filtering. The next technology you need to prevent cyberattacks is a DNS filter. But first, a little bit about what DNS (domain name system) is. The DNS server, in turn, tells the computer where to go.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The leak was previously attributed to the Russian state via a Written Ministerial Statement in 2020. Once notified, the DNS provider took action to mitigate actor-controlled domains abusing their service. The theft of UK-US trade documents leaked before the 2019 General Election.

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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. SALOMON As an affiliate of Spamdot, Salomon used the email address ad1@safe-mail.net , and the password 19871987gr.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 19, 2023

A 21 year old man named David Smith, from Connecticut, allegedly figured out a way to extract large quantities of cash from drivers with a scam stretching back to 2020. Malwarebytes DNS filtering blocks malicious websites used for phishing attacks, as well as websites used to spread or control malware. Use a password manager.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 3, 2023

However, searching passive DNS records at DomainTools.com for thedomainsvault[.]com In January 2019, Houzz acknowledged that a data breach exposed account information on an undisclosed number of customers, including user IDs, one-way encrypted passwords, IP addresses, city and ZIP codes, as well as Facebook information. 68.35.149.206).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 5, 2021

On December 13 2020, multiple vendors such as FireEye and Microsoft reported emerging threats from a nation-state threat actor who compromised SolarWinds, and trojanized SolarWinds Orion business software updates in order to distribute backdoor malware called SUNBURST.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Attack vectors There are two main IoT infection routes: brute-forcing weak passwords and exploiting vulnerabilities in network services. A successful password cracking enables hackers to execute arbitrary commands on a device and inject malware. Unfortunately, users tend to leave these passwords unchanged. Our advantages: 1.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Normally account take overs are due to insecure passwords or recovery options, this is definitely something different. — Dave Kennedy (@HackingDave) July 15, 2020. link] pic.twitter.com/cVIyB44o6q — Eugene Kaspersky (@e_kaspersky) June 22, 2020. — Parisa Tabriz (@laparisa) January 26, 2020. Ingenious!

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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.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Shotliff shared an April 2014 password reset email from Black Hat World, which shows he forwarded the plaintext password to the email address legendboy2050@yahoo.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.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2021

The phishing messages used to steal login credentials for the victims redirect victims to landing pages designed to appear like Microsoft sign-in pages that ask them to provide their passwords. The FBI 2020 annual report on cybercrime for 2020 listed a record number of more than $1.8 billion adjusted losses reported last year.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Critical vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2020-29492 and CVE-2020-29491 affect several Dell Wyse thin client models that could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute malicious code and gain access to arbitrary files. Both CVE-2020-29492 and CVE-2020-29491 reside in the ThinOS operating system that runs on Dell Wyse thin clients.

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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

On 2020-01-02, CNCERT reported that “the number of Bot node IP addresses associated with this botnet exceeds 5 million. As home broadband IPs are dynamically assigned, the true size of the infected devices behind them cannot be accurately estimated, and it is presumed that the actual number of infected devices is in the millions.”

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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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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

logins, passwords, etc.), In some cases, the emails were delivered with Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel) or password-protected archives with the documents attached. Password brute forcing; Registry manipulation (persistence); Creating a copy of itself; Process injection to conceal the malicious process. an invoice).

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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

The group was observed using this scheme between 2019 and 2020, and according to the experts, most of the compromised email accounts belong to defense companies in the Middle East. Most of the abused email servers for the period of May to December 2019 were in UAE (45%), followed by India (9%) and Pakistan (8%). ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

Distributed in a ZIP container (a copy is available here ) the interface is quite intuitive: the Microsoft exchange address and its version shall be provided (even if in the code a DNS-domain discovery mode function is available). txt including numbers from 0 to 999 and from 0002 (why not 0001 or 0000?)

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2022

Researchers from threat intelligence firm RiskIQ, using passive DNS data related to Knotweed attacks, linked the C2 infrastructure used by the malware since February 2020 to DSIRF. Note: Microsoft strongly encourages all customers download and use password-less solutions like Microsoft Authenticator to secure accounts.

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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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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. Credential theft and password spraying to Cobalt Strike. This adversary starts with obtaining usernames and passwords of their victim from previous breaches. Initial access (TA0001).

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

cassandra.pw (Code Protector) esco.pw (office document protection) monovm hostwinds.com firevps dynu 4server.su (VPS and dedicated servers) dnsomatic.com cloudns.net (DNS services) spam-lab.su Fast forward to 2020, and the threat actor has graduated to malware distributor. hackforums.net exploit.in titan.email (.pw titan.email (.pw

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The infection vector of NullMixer is based on a ‘User Execution’ (MITRE Technique: T1204) malicious link that requires the end user to click on and download a password-protected ZIP/RAR archive with a malicious file that is extracted and executed manually. The user extracts the archived file with the password.

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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. Free Kaspersky Password Manager Premium. DNS filtering. Dark web monitoring.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 12, 2021

The problem occurred because the Microsoft workers modified the privacy settings of the Azure system failing to protect it with passwords or MFA. 2020 started for Marriott with an attack on their records by stealing the credentials of two of their staff members. Malefactors used 45 of the hacked accounts in Bitcoin-based scams. .

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1962 — Allan Scherr — MIT sets up the first computer passwords, for student privacy and time limits. Student Allan Scherr makes a punch card to trick the computer into printing off all passwords and uses them to log in as other people after his time runs out. She connects him to any phone number he requests for free.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

Other significant Xplico features include multithreading, SQLite or MySQL integration, no data entry limits, and can execute reserve DNS lookup from DNS pack. What thrust Exterro deeper into the DFIR space was its acquisition of industry-known AccessData in December 2020. billion in 2020. Magnet Forensics. Market Size.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

I can't blame this on the teddy bears themselves, rather the fact that the MongoDB holding all the collected data was left publicly facing without a password. Bayview252) November 23, 2020 But what if that device was the LIFX light bulb from earlier on and the patch was designed to fix a serious security vulnerability?

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