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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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

JULY 15, 2020

Security researchers discovered another malware family delivered through tax software that some businesses operating in China are required to install. Security researchers at Trustwave have discovered another malware family delivered through tax software that Chinese banks require companies operating in the country to install.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Cisco patched 34 high-severity flaws affecting its IOS and IOS XE software, some of them can be exploited by a remote unauthenticated attacker. Cisco on Thursday released security patches for 34 high-severity vulnerabilities affecting its IOS and IOS XE software. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

For everything from minor network infractions to devastating cyberattacks and data privacy troubles , digital forensics software can help clean up the mess and get to the root of what happened. This article looks at the top digital forensic software tools of 2021 and what customers should consider when buying or acquiring a DSF tool.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 28, 2021

I first heard about the domain in December 2020, when a reader told me how his entire network had been hijacked by a cryptocurrency mining botnet that called home to it. I’d been doxed via DNS. Organizations Newly Hacked Via Holes in Microsoft’s Email Software. Just my Social Security number. At Least 30,000 U.S.

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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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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

A cybercrook who has been setting up websites that mimic the self-destructing message service privnote.com accidentally exposed the breadth of their operations recently when they threatened to sue a software company. A review of the passive DNS records tied to this address shows that apart from subdomains dedicated to tornote[.]io,

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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. DxOdyssey (DxO) is a Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) solution that enables secure, available, per-application connectivity between remote users, edge devices, sites, and clouds.

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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 16, 2020

com ) in an attempt to identify all victims and prevent other systems from being served malicious software. Bansal (@0xrb) December 16, 2020. of the SolarWinds Orion Platform software that was released between March and June 2020. here is list of DGA subdomain c2: avsvmcloud[.]com The domain avsvmcloud[.]com

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SecureList

DECEMBER 18, 2020

On December 13, 2020 FireEye published important details of a newly discovered supply chain attack. An unknown attacker, referred to as UNC2452 or DarkHalo planted a backdoor in the SolarWinds Orion IT software. In the initial phases, the Sunburst malware talks to the C&C server by sending encoded DNS requests. avsvmcloud[.]com”

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Interestingly, the findings state that the threat actors, probably funded by a government, were hiding in the external DNS servers of telcos and conducting espionage through General Packet Radio Services (GPRS) networks. However, no substantial evidence to prove the exact location of hackers has been got till date.

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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. DNS security solutions are one way of addressing this risk.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2020

The APT group targeted organizations in various industries, including the aviation, gaming, pharmaceuticals, technology, telecoms, and software development industries. QuoINT also reported another attack carried out by the Winnti Group against a chemical company in Germany in January 2020. a South Korean video game company.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2020

Let’s Encrypt is going to revoke over 3 million certificates today due to a flaw in the software used to verify users and their domains before issuing a certificate. A bug in Let’s Encrypt’s certificate authority (CA) software, dubbed Boulder, caused the correct validation for some certificates.

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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. Once this communication is blocked, the malicious software essentially becomes inert.

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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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Hacker Combat

JULY 5, 2021

A new malicious software (ransomware) variant that leverages Golang has been released. This malicious software has the same features as FiveHands and DeathRansom/HelloKitty. This malicious software has the same features as FiveHands and DeathRansom/HelloKitty. It also uses the command line reversal “-key.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2021

. “While the Windows system is in safe mode antivirus software doesn’t work. The cryptocurrency miner spreads through illegal and cracked copies of popular software. Upon rebooting the system, Crackonosh will scan for the existence of antivirus software and will attempt to disable them, the malware also wipes log system files.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

According to cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 , the user BHProxies also used the handle “ hassan_isabad_subar ” and marketed various software tools, including “Subar’s free email creator” and “Subar’s free proxy scraper.” 5, 2014 , but historic DNS records show BHproxies[.]com

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

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. DNS data exfiltration is a way to exchange data between two computers without any direct connection, in a way that doesn’t draw much attention.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

They're complex little units doing amazing things and they run software written by humans which inevitably means that sooner or later, one of us (software developers) is going to screw something up that'll require patching. And, just like the LIFX devices, they're going to need patching occasionally.

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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. Identify the applications, devices and accounts that you need to protect.

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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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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. Rapid7 has made 11 acquisitions since its founding, bringing on a pack of technologies to enhance its software suite.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2022

The Trickbot operation has switched to using MikroTik routers as C&C servers since 2020. MikroTik devices have unique hardware and software, RouterBOARD and RouterOS. AdvInt researchers recently reported that The Conti ransomware group has taken over TrickBot malware operation and plans to replace it with BazarBackdoor malware.

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

Between 2017 and 2019, the APT group mainly used DNS hijacking in its campaigns. Keep software up to date to reduce number of vulnerabilities in externally exposed systems. The researchers believe that the Turkey-linked APT Sea Turtle has been active since at least 2017. ” reads the report published by Hunt & Hackett.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The problem: Zoom recently patched a flaw that affected three of its Windows-facing software products: Zoom Desktop Client for Windows, Zoom VDI Client for Windows, and Zoom Meeting SDK for Windows. Appliances with affected software must have Anyconnect SSL VPN enabled on whichever interface is exposed to the internet for an attack to occur.

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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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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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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2021

This year’s featured vulnerabilities were: Testing Software Integrity. To kick off the session, SANS Fellow and Director Ed Skoudis touched on the software integrity conundrum. Software distribution prioritizes speed over trust, and the result is a sea of potential vulnerabilities. Excessive Access by Tokens.

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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.”. Another software abused in DDoS attacks is the built-in network discovery protocols implemented in Jenkins server.

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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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SC Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

29, 2020, in Houston. Between the DNS attacks and ongoing ransomware scourge, it’s beyond time for providers to seek more creative responses to cyber challenges even with limited budgets, in combination with participation in threat-sharing programs and while relying on free or low-cost resources. Photo: Go Nakamura/Getty Images).

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