eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In July 2021, another wave of attacks hit SolarWinds. The list below shows some other methods cybersecurity experts use to discover new zero day threats: Monitoring the news on social media and the internet, watching for sudden changes in cyber activities. Further reading: Top Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) Vendors for 2021.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Notably, no other intelligence was shared until 2021, which led us to speculate on a possible shift by the threat actor to more fileless/LOLBINS techniques, and the use of known/common offensive tools publicly available on the internet that allows them to blend in. Display DNS resolver cache. cmd.exе /c sеt. cmd.exе /c nеt user.

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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. Identify and create offline backups for critical assets.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A hacker from United States named P4x has admitted that he took down the internet of North Korea last week by launching a distributed denial of service attack on the central DNS servers of the country. The post US hacker claims to have downed the internet of North Korea appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Q4 2021 saw the appearance of several new DDoS botnets. In some cases, DNS amplification was also used. The botnet hijacked new devices by exploiting the CVE-2021-22205 vulnerability, which GitLab patched in April 2021, and carried out DDoS attacks of over 1TB/s. News roundup. beta9 to 2.14.1,

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SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

We reported about the first variant of such software back in 2018, but there were many other samples to be found, which was later reported by the US CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) in 2021. The group is currently active (recent activity was spotted in November 2021). PowerShell script used in 2021 campaign.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The PlugX families we observed used DNS [ T1071.001 ] [ T1071.004 ] as the transport channel for C2 traffic, in particular TXT queries. Another clue that helped us was the use of DNS tunneling by Winnti which we discovered traces of in memory. The hardcoded 208.67.222.222 resolves to a legitimate OpenDNS DNS server.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

As remote desktop solutions are prevalent among IT and managed service providers (MSP), downstream clients can be at risk, as Kaseya experienced in 2021. Also read : Best Internet Security Suites & Software. Meanwhile, the suspect server was connected to the CDOT domain with an administrator account and the internet.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 12, 2022

The CA will issue challenges (DNS or HTTPS) requiring the agent to take an action that demonstrates control over said domain(s). In addition, ACME can make the process of choosing a backup CA a fairly easy one. For that reason, having a backup CA is always a good idea,” he explains in a blog of his. . Anastasios Arampatzis.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 4, 2022

The Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) originally designed the ACME protocol for its own Let’s Encrypt certificate service. The previous version, ACME v1, was deprecated on June 1st, 2021. On September 15, 2021, the DNS records for acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org On September 15, 2021, the DNS records for acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

He died prematurely on April 23 in 2021. I first met Dan when he was literally saving the world; okay, at least saving the internet as we know it today by disclosing to the major ISPs in the world a flaw he’d found in the Domain Name System or DNS. Dan found a flaw that could have crippled the internet.

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SecureList

JUNE 15, 2022

2TB of 2020-2021 data: credentials related to banking accounts and the most popular services. For instance, network access data for a company specializing in POS terminals and providing internet acquiring services is valued much higher ($20,000) than other similar offers. Screenshot translation. I have my own databases. more in pm!

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SecureList

JANUARY 28, 2021

From the rise of remote working and the global shift in consumer habits to huge profits booked by internet entertainers, we are witnessing how overwhelmingly important the connected infrastructure has become for the daily functioning of society. How are governments and enterprises going to react to this in 2021?

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