CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The enterprise-class domain registrar and Domain Name System (DNS) threats mitigator found that 75% of Global 2000s have implemented fewer than half of all domain security measures with Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) , the only domain security measure with significantly increased adoption since 2020.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 6, 2024

Since bad actors need to communicate back to their C2, digital exhaust often takes the form of DNS records , which if monitored properly allows organizations to detect anomalous patterns and stop the communications, and thus the breach, before the criminals can do any major harm. That's where technologies like protective DNS come in.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A key concern for enterprises is another critical bug in the DNS server on Windows Server 2008 through 2019 versions that could be used to remotely install software of the attacker’s choice. by sending a phishing email with a link to a new domain or even with images embedded that call out to a new domain).

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 28, 2020

— NordVPN (@NordVPN) October 23, 2020 Ah, tricky! But let's also keep some perspective here; look at how many pixels are different between an "i" and an "l": Are we really saying we're going to combat phishing by relying on untrained eyes to spot 6 pixels being off in a screen of more than 2 million of them?! Poor Googie!

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 8, 2022

Without the more restrictive enforcement policy, organizations place an unnecessary burden on email security applications and increase the likelihood of a phishing attack successfully impersonating a brand. Domains receiving emails can compare the envelope of the email and compare against DNS records. What is DMARC? What is SPF?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2020

Hackers hijacked one of the domains of the Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck and used it for spear-phishing attacks. Then the attackers used the hijacked domain to launch spear-phishing attacks against some of its customers. org — Masafumi Negishi (@MasafumiNegishi) June 3, 2020. NS ???????????? awsdns-61[.]org

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NetSpi Technical

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Let’s try DNS. To quickly test if we have DNS outbound, we can use Burp Suite Collaborator. This will give us a unique address that we can query and let us know if a DNS request was received. import socket data = socket.gethostbyname_ex(‘<collaborator URL>’) print(repr(data)) We have DNS outbound.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In March, a voice phishing scam targeting GoDaddy support employees allowed attackers to assume control over at least a half-dozen domain names, including transaction brokering site escrow.com. 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020. 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020.

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Cryptocurrency VPN Scams Social Engineering 363

Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2021

The campaign has been active at least since 2020, the attackers leverage remote access trojans to spy on their victims. . Some of the phishing emails from the current campaign were sent from IP addresses corresponding to a range that belongs to Powerhouse Management, a VPN service. These files have fewer than a dozen sightings each.

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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. According to recent research , phishing assaults targeted credential harvesting in 71.5% of cases in 2020.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2022

A large-scale phishing campaign leveraging the Anubis Network is targeting Brazil and Portugal since March 2022. A large-scale phishing campaign is targeting Internet-end users in Brazil and Portugal since March 2022. Figure 1: High-level diagram of the ANUBIS phishing network and its components (2020).

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Webroot

MAY 26, 2021

Phishing scams imitating eBay skyrocketed during the first months of product shortages brought on by COVID-19. Scam emails claiming to be from Netflix rose by more than 600% in 2020. We were fish in cybercriminals’ collective barrel. Now, even with vaccinations rising in the U.S., many companies are rethinking the way they work.

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Scams DNS Firewall Phishing 109

Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

As I started delving back through my own writing over the years, the picture became much clearer and it really crystallised just this week after I inadvertently landed on a nasty phishing site. In the end I broke it down into 3 Ps: padlocks, phishing and privacy. Here's the value proposition of a VPN in the modern era: 1.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 1, 2019

Related: Why not train employees as phishing cops? 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. Phishing campaigns directed at election officials.

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Cyber Risk DNS Phishing Backups 159

Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2023

“Symantec researchers observed it being used in some activity in 2020 and 2021, as well as this more recent campaign, which continued into the first quarter of 2023. The attack chain employed in 2020 started with a phishing email with a lure based on the 37th ASEAN Summit. ” reads the analysis published by Symantec.

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Encryption DNS Phishing Malware 84

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2023

A DMARC policy is included in a DNS record for a given domain, enabling the sender to specify if messages are protected by SPF or DKIM. DMARC Record The DMARC record publishes to an organization’s DNS record so it is publicly available for email servers to check. How Does DMARC Work?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

Most of APT28s’ campaigns leveraged spear-phishing and malware-based attacks, the recent mass scanning activity represents a change in the modus operandi of the group. Trend Micro investigated waves of the APT28’s targeted credential phishing attacks and collected thousands of email samples sent out by the group since 2014.

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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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SC Magazine

JUNE 9, 2021

The report is based on a survey of 814 senior-level IT executives in the financial services industry in October and November 2020. Phishing attempts are a constant source of concern. Local, national and international laws govern not only how firms protect data, but also the fines they may incur in the event of a breach.

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Webroot

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Thanks to the disruptions to “normal” work routines that COVID-19 has brought, launching a company-wide training program to teach end users how to avoid phishing scams and online risks is a big challenge. Unfortunately, COVID-19 has also brought a major acceleration in phishing activity. Start with a baseline phishing campaign.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

While looking for threats targeting Ukraine, we identified a group we call “Nigerian Tesla” that has been dabbling into phishing and other data theft activities for a number of years. One of their preferred scams was phishing for Adobe login pages. hackforums.net exploit.in titan.email (.pw pw accounts, various scams).

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Malware Scams Phishing Accountability 72

SecureList

MAY 1, 2023

Can ChatGPT detect phishing links? We work on applying machine learning technologies to cybersecurity tasks, specifically models that analyze websites to detect threats such as phishing. live/login.php Yes, it is likely a phishing attempt. Is it phishing? Please explain why.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 25, 2022

.–( BUSINESS WIRE )– CSC , a world leader in business, legal, tax, and domain security, today announced key findings from its new report, which found that nearly 500,000 web domains were registered since January 2020 containing key COVID-related terms. At CSC, we believe domain security intelligence is power.

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Cisco Security

MAY 12, 2022

Gamaredon often leverages malicious office files, distributed through spear phishing as the first stage of their attacks. Until August 2020, we observed that message-yandex.ru@mail[.]ru 08/2020-02/2021,02/2022. 08/2020, 05/2021-02/2022. 07/2020-02/2021. 02/2019-06/2020. ru was the main registrant email.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 12, 2021

Ordinary users, or pawns, do not realize they do anything bad as they fall victim to phishing and different types of computer viruses sent via email. 2020 started for Marriott with an attack on their records by stealing the credentials of two of their staff members. Ordinary users.

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SecureList

MAY 26, 2021

The statistics in this report cover the period from May 2020 to April 2021, inclusive. 40% users of Kaspersky solutions in the EU encountered at least one phishing attack. 86,584,675 phishing attempts were blocked by Kaspersky solutions in the EU. Main figures. In the EU, Kaspersky solutions blocked 115,452,157 web attacks.

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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. Ad blockers, as the name suggests, block advertisements and protects you from phishing scams. Ad Blockers.

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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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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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Malware Ransomware Encryption Energy and Utilities 107

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2022

With hundreds of thousands of disruption actions taken every week, ZeroFox strikes out threats before they reach their targets, taking down the associated domains, social media profiles and phishing kits, mobile applications and bot accounts effectively rendering the attack infrastructure moot.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The attackers obtain initial access to a system by sending a spear-phishing email to the victim containing a Dropbox download link. This toolset was in use from as early as July 2020, mainly targeting Southeast Asian entities, including government agencies and telecoms companies. FinSpy: analysis of current capabilities.

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SecureList

AUGUST 30, 2023

A DLL with this name was used in recent deployments of a backdoor that we dubbed Gopuram , which we had been tracking since 2020. In April 2020, we uncovered a significant shift in targeting and infection vector. However, when we started hunting for more samples, we found phishing documents that ultimately dropped EarlyRat.

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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. Shift from spray and pray to cultivate and curate – rise of the hands-on ransomware attack.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 8, 2022

We determined that the initial infection method using an LNK-based dropper inside a ZIP archive, remained similar to previous campaigns using EVILNUM, Powersing, and PowerPepper, but each seems to focus on different phishing themes, as if each malware family is operated by different teams and/or intended for different types of victims.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In December 2020, news of the SolarWinds incident took the world by storm. The first malicious update was pushed to SolarWinds users in March 2020, and it contained a malware named Sunburst. Later in May 2021, Microsoft also attributed spear-phishing campaign impersonating a US-based organization to Nobelium. DNS hijacking.

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

If your VPN includes all DNS requests and traffic then you could be hiding significantly from your ISP. You will eventually be hacked via phishing, social engineering, poisoning a site you already frequent, or some other technique. How bad is it to be a public figure (blog/YouTube) in 2020? This is true. It’s that simple.

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

While much of the spam circulating is innocuous, many emails are phishing attempts, and some are indeed malicious. What they may not be aware of, is that they have just given their credit card details away in a phishing scam. Image 10 – Steps in package delivery phishing scam. A word of caution. Your package is in route.

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