Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

The underground cybercrime forums are now awash in pleas from people who are desperately seeking a new supplier of abundant, cheap, and reliably clean proxies to restart their businesses. Historical DNS records from Farsight Security show angrycoders.net formerly included the subdomain “smollalex.angrycoders[.]net”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2022

The malware campaign was spotted by Cisco Talos in October 2021, most of the victims were located in the United States, Italy and Singapore. “To deliver the malware payload, the actor registered several malicious subdomains using DuckDNS, a free dynamic DNS service. ” reads the analysis published by Talos.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 8, 2022

A public key is stored with the Domain Name System (DNS) for download by any email server receiving emails with the encrypted digital signature. SPF email authentication counters spoofing by publishing to DNS records a list of email-sending Internet Protocol (IP) addresses authorized by the sending domain. What is SPF?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2022

“The FBI first learned of Diavol ransomware in October 2021. In July, researchers from Fortinet first spotted the new ransomware family, tracked as Diavol, and speculated it might have been developed by Wizard Spider , the cybercrime gang behind the TrickBot botnet. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

.” One month ago, Joker’s Stash announced that its operations will shut down on February 15, 2021. The administrator announced the decision via messages posted on various cybercrime forums. The sized sites were at jstash.bazar, jstash.lib, jstash.emc, and jstash.coin, which are all those accessible via blockchain DNS.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 11, 2022

Thus, paired with the rise of cybercrime during that time, the situation has made cybersecurity products a necessity in many cases. Or maybe the user needs to go into more deep technical stuff – then he should check if VPN has features like custom DNS or port forwarding features.

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Vipre

JANUARY 25, 2021

Here are 5 common security tools that you must have in 2021 to protect your digital world. DNS ad blockers are a new breed of ad blockers that use DNS to effectively block ads. By 2021, the annual monetary damages from cybercrime will be more than the monetary damages due to natural disasters.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2023

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The attacks spotted by Cisco Talos were carried out by a Babuk ransomware affiliate tracked as Tortilla that has been active since at least July 2021. 229 @58_158_177_102 @sugimu_sec pic.twitter.com/LcuNw88fOo — TG Soft (@VirITeXplorer) October 14, 2021. The ransomware maybe born from the leaked #Babuk code.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 26, 2022

Note: This OSINT analysis has been originally published at my current employer's Web site - [link] where I'm currently acting as a DNS Threat Researcher since January, 2021.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2022

Since March 2021, the malicious code was also employed in attacks aimed at several European countries as well as Japan. Since October 2021, threat actors behind the Flubot Android malware are leveraging fake security updates to trick victims into installing the malicious code. ” reads the report published by F5. In version 4.9,

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2023

The Volt Typhoon group has been active since at least mid-2021 it carried out cyber operations against critical infrastructure. In September 2021, Zoho released a security patch to address an authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-40539, in its ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus.

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Talos researchers believe that the group was able to remain under the radar using crypters that it bought on cybercrime forums. — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 11, 2021. The attackers have used off-the-shelf malware since the beginning of their operations and have never developed their own malware.

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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. Business Email Compromise (BEC), a type of phishing attack, results in the greatest financial losses of any cybercrime.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

These services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they can make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source. FORUM ACTIVITY?

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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

JUNE 9, 2022

The malware was first spotted in November 2021, experts believe it was designed to target the financial sector in Latin America, such as Banco do Brasil and Caixa. Once the malware has infected all the running processes, it provides the threat actor with rootkit capability and supports data-stealing capabilities. ” concludes the report.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 27, 2018

By Gartner’s estimate there will be about 25 billion IoT devices in service by 2021. In response, many leading vendors and government officials are pushing hard for more sharing of cybercrime intelligence. “Targeting simplification is a really a big problem for our industry right now,” Shin says. IoT force multiplier.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2021

In terms of big news, Q2 2021 was relatively calm, but not completely eventless. Q2 2021 was no exception: in early July researchers at Netscout reported an increase in attacks using the Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) protocol. News overview. The bug was named TsuNAME.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2023

The attackers attempted to verify outbound network connectivity with a ping command and executed host commands for a subnet-wide DNS lookup. In the past few years, the group has been observed using a number of ransomware threats, including the Ragnar Locker ransomware (June 2021), and the White Rabbit ransomware (January 2022).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

“In August 2021, we at Intezer discovered a fully undetected ELF implementation of Cobalt Strike’s beacon , which we named Vermilion Strike. The malware connects C2 primarily over DNS, to avoid detection, but it is also able to use HTTP. “ Vermilion Strike and other Linux threats remain a constant threat.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 25, 2022

While nearly 1,200 domains registered in 2021 included Omicron as a keyword, 832 were registered (70%) in a two-week timeframe between November 26 and December 9, with numerous domains causing traffic misdirection and redirection, soliciting donations, or promoting cryptocurrency investments.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 26, 2022

Note: This OSINT analysis has been originally published at my current employer's Web site - [link] where I'm currently acting as a DNS Threat Researcher since January, 2021.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 8, 2022

An interesting aspect we have noticed recently is the use of unlisted old YouTube links that were used in 2021 intrusions. Janicab 2021 listing of DDRs. Janicab 2021 runner.py Janicab 2021 virtual MAC address listing. Janicab was first introduced in 2013 as malware able to run on MacOS and Windows operating systems.

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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

AUGUST 30, 2023

In May 2021, the DeathNote cluster was used to compromise a European IT company providing solutions for monitoring network devices and servers, possibly because Lazarus had an interest in this company’s widely-used software or its supply-chain. Finally, a COPPERHEDGE variant was executed in memory.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

As cybercrime flourishes and evolves, organizations need a fleet of tools to defend and investigate incidents. This article looks at the top digital forensic software tools of 2021 and what customers should consider when buying or acquiring a DSF tool. Best Digital Forensics Software Tools of 2021. The Sleuth Kit and Autopsy.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 26, 2022

Note: This OSINT analysis has been originally published at my current employer's Web site - [link] where I'm currently acting as a DNS Threat Researcher since January, 2021.

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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

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. Use of CVE-2021-1732 peaked between June and July 2020, but the overall campaign is still ongoing. The most remarkable findings.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 29, 2022

25+ Years of Black Hat (and some DNS stats), by Alejo Calaoagan. Cisco is a Premium Partner of the Black Hat NOC , and is the Official Wired & Wireless Network Equipment, Mobile Device Management, DNS (Domain Name Service) and Malware Analysis Provider of Black Hat. CyberCrime Tracker. Unmistaken Identity, by Ben Greenbaum.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

UDPoS malware, only recently discovered by Forcepoint researchers, poses as a LogMeIn service pack and uses DNS requests to transfer stolen data to a command and control server. “This type of poor security practice should be avoided at all costs, as it exposes the company to easily become a victim of cybercrime.”

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

We also identified two samples developed in December 2021 containing test strings and preceding revisions of the ransom note observed in Microsoft’s shared samples. One of the identified samples was compiled on December 28, 2021, suggesting that this destructive campaign had been planned for months. … ?????? ??????!!!

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In January 2021, the cybercrime gang launched a new campaign targeting Kubernetes environments with the Hildegard malware, Palo Alto Networks warns. Upon infecting Docker and Kubernetes systems running on top of AWS servers, the bot scans for ~/.aws/credentials aws/credentials and ~/.aws/config

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. Also read: Top Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Solutions for 2021. — Eva (@evacide) October 4, 2021. Also read: Top Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) Vendors for 2021.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2021

According to the recent research published by ReSecurity on Twitter, starting January 2021 REVil leveraged a new domain ‘decoder[.]re’ Ransomware #Cybersecurity #ThreatIntel #ThreatHunting #Malware pic.twitter.com/G32IrY2GxD — Resecurity (@resecurity_com) July 7, 2021.

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