eSecurity Planet

MARCH 21, 2022

By using a misconfigured Cisco Duo MFA implementation to force enrollment of a new device, the hackers were then able to use the “PrintNightmare” Windows Print Spooler vulnerability ( CVE-2021-34527 and CVE-2021-36958 ) to obtain administrator privileges. Inactive Accounts and Default Configurations.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This blog examines the escalating phishing landscape, shortcomings of common anti-phishing approaches, and why implementing a Protective DNS service as part of a layered defense provides the most effective solution. In 2021 alone, estimated adjusted losses from BEC totaled $2.4 This is where Protective DNS comes in.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Alien Labs research indicates the command and control (C&C) server used in this newly discovered campaign contains infection statistics that suggest TeamTNT has been running this campaign since July 25, 2021, and that it is responsible for thousands of infections globally. Exfil Domain in DNS Query. Background. Recommended actions.

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SecureList

JUNE 2, 2022

A downloader utility and WinDealer of 2021 use the unique user-agent “BBB” The downloader periodically retrieves and runs an executable from hxxp://www.baidu[.]com/status/windowsupdatedmq.exe. Full control over the DNS, meaning they can provide responses for non-existent domains. com/status/windowsupdatedmq.exe.

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

For example, before making the first internet connection to its C2s, the Sunburst malware lies dormant for up to two weeks, preventing easy detection of this behaviour in sandboxes. We believe this is a continuation of a campaign last summer, reported by Avast , in which the malware masqueraded as the Malwarebytes antivirus installer.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

éveillé from ESET joins The Hacker Mind podcast to talk about the challenges of building his own internet scanner to scan for elusive malware. What if you were dialed the entire Internet? But to find that information back in 2014, he had to scan the Internet, the entire internet and that was a very noisy process.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

This is our latest installment, focusing on activities that we observed during Q1 2021. In parallel, Volexity also reported the same Exchange zero-days being in use in early 2021. The threat actor leverages tailor-made malicious documents with embedded macros that trigger an infection chain, opening a URL in Internet Explorer.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2022

Microsoft states that multiple news reports have linked the company to the Subzero malware toolset used to hack a broad range of devices, phones, computers, and network and internet-connected devices. Confirm that Microsoft Defender Antivirus is updated to security intelligence update 1.371.503.0 ” reads the report. £We

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

If the infected device isn’t connected to the Internet, the malware waits for a USB device with a specific volume name to be connected, then copies stolen data to that device. The post Point-of-Sale (POS) Security Measures for 2021 appeared first on eSecurityPlanet. vSkimmer malware, a successor to Dexter, dates back to 2013.

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In their 2021 Internet Crime Report , the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) said that Non-Payment / Non-Delivery scams such as these led to more than $337 million in losses, up from $265 million in 2020. In this example, the email appears to come from an internet service provider, informing us that our monthly bill is ready.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The data at issue refers to communications traversing the Domain Name System (DNS), a global database that maps computer-friendly coordinates like Internet addresses (e.g., Whenever an Internet user gets online to visit a website or send an email, the user’s device sends a query through the Domain Name System.

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