Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

An anonymous researcher initially reported that the Brave’s Tor mode was sending queries for.onion domains to public internet DNS resolvers, other experts confirmed his findings. Piping.onion requests through DNS where your ISP or DNS provider can see that you made a request for an.onion site defeats that purpose.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2021

DirtyMoe is a Windows botnet that is rapidly growing, it passed from 10,000 infected systems in 2020 to more than 100,000 in the first half of 2021. The module that implements the warm capabilities was spotted scanning the internet and performing password brute-force attacks against Windows systems with SMB port open online.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 12, 2021

Cisco Secure returned as a supporting partner of the Black Hat USA 2021 Network Operations Center (NOC) for the 5 th year ; joining conference producer Informa Tech and its other security partners. Threat hunting is a core mission of the Cisco Secure team, while monitoring the DNS activity for potentially malicious activity.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The Glupteba botnet is back, researchers reported a surge in infection worldwide after Google disrupted its operation in 2021. In December 2021, Google announced it has taken down the infrastructure operated by the Glupteba botnet, it also sued Russian nationals Dmitry Starovikov and Alexander Filippov for creating and operating the botnet.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 11, 2021

After examining topics such as the MITRE ATT&CK framework , LOLBins , and others, this release will look at DNS traffic to malicious sites. We’ll also look at malicious DNS activity—the number of queries malicious sites receive. Organizations and malicious DNS activity. Overview of analysis. Cryptomining.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

CVE-2021-40847 flaw in Netgear SOHO routers could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code as root. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-40847, resides in the source of a third-party component included in the firmware of many Netgear devices. ” concludes the report. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Overview: On December 9th, a vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) was released on Twitter along with a POC on Github for the Apache Log4J logging library. This includes products from internet giants such as Apple iCloud, Steam, Samsung Cloud storage, but thousands of additional products and services will likely be vulnerable. What is it?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for September 2021 addressed a high severity zero-day flaw actively exploited in targeted attacks. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for September 2021 addressed a high severity zero-day RCE actively exploited in targeted attacks aimed at Microsoft Office and Office 365 on Windows 10 computers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2021

John Graham-Cumming , CTO at Cloudflare, reported that some minutes before Facebook’s DNS outage began they observed a large number of BGP changes for Facebook’s ASN a circumstance that suggests BGP routing problems. pic.twitter.com/dMTevg6hqj — John Graham-Cumming (@jgrahamc) October 4, 2021. Relax everyone.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2020

Our findings show that both Telenor and MPT block websites using DNS tampering. MPT is ignoring the DNS requests to the blocked domains, while Telenor is redirecting them to an IP address outside of the country. Registry Expiry Date: 2021-03-26T23:59:59.0Z Circumvention of Internet blocking. Domain Name: URLBLOCKED.PW

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

based Internet address for more than a decade — simply vanished. Using services like VIP72, customers can select network nodes in virtually any country, and relay their traffic while hiding behind some unwitting victim’s Internet address. The domain Vip72[.]org “ Haxdoor ,” and “ Nuclear Grabber.”

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McAfee

DECEMBER 22, 2021

CVE-2021-44228 – Apache Releases Log4j Version 2.15.0 A full technical analysis can be found here: McAfee Advanced Threat Research: Log4Shell Vulnerability is the Coal in our Stocking for 2021. KB95091: McAfee Enterprise coverage for Apache Log4j CVE-2021-44228 Remote Code Execution. Attack Chain and Defensive Architecture.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 13, 2021

A set of vulnerabilities has been found in the way a number of popular TCP/IP stacks handle DNS requests. Yes, the researchers found 9 DNS-related vulnerabilities that have the potential to allow attackers to take targeted devices offline or to gain control over them. Basically, you could say DNS is the phonebook of the internet.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 22, 2023

Securing SMB Success: The Indispensable Role of Protective DNS Cyber attacks pose as much risk to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) as they do to large organizations — if not more. Implementing a Domain Name Service (DNS) security solution is the most efficient way to protect your business against a wide variety of attacks.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

IT threat evolution Q3 2021. IT threat evolution in Q3 2021. IT threat evolution in Q3 2021. While tracking this threat actor in spring 2021, we discovered a newer version. Targeted attacks exploiting CVE-2021-40444. The vulnerability is in MSHTML, the Internet Explorer engine. PC statistics.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

Between 2017 and 2019, the APT group mainly used DNS hijacking in its campaigns. In October 2021, Microsoft observed the group conducting intelligence gathering aligned with strategic Turkish interests. . Reduce the number of systems that can be reached over internet using SSH. Enable 2FA on all externally exposed accounts.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 16, 2021

Hiding internet activity strengthens privacy—but also makes it easier for bad actors to infiltrate the network. In this blog I’ll describe two recent privacy advances—DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and QUIC—and what we’re doing to maintain visibility. Keeping your destination private: DNS over HTTPS. DoH prevents both of these problems.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2021

— Marc Rogers (@marcwrogers) April 24, 2021. He is best known for his study on DNS cache poisoning and for his investigation into the Sony Rootkit attacks. On June 16, 2010, he was named by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as one of the Trusted Community Representatives for the DNSSEC root.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The September 2021 Patch Tuesday could be remembered as the final patching attempt in the PrintNightmare… nightmare. This month, Microsoft patched the remaining Print Spooler vulnerabilities under CVE-2021-36958. It was listed as CVE-2021-40444 , a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in Microsoft MSHTML.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

We don’t know much about the source of the November 2021 incident, other than GoDaddy’s statement that it involved a compromised password, and that it took about two months for the company to detect the intrusion. Thus, the second factor cannot be phished, either over the phone or Internet.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2021

Microsoft’s March Patch Tuesday security updates address 89 vulnerabilities in its products, including Microsoft Windows components, Azure and Azure DevOps, Azure Sphere, Internet Explorer and Edge (EdgeHTML), Exchange Server, Office and Office Services and Web Apps, SharePoint Server, Visual Studio, and Windows Hyper-V.

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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. An easy way to enhance your online security and privacy is by using a VPN while browsing the internet. Internet ads are one of the major sources of phishing scams and ransomware attacks. Identity Theft Protection Tools.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 8, 2022

The signature-based email authentication technique called DKIM merges the specifications for domain keys and identified-internet-mail specifications. A public key is stored with the Domain Name System (DNS) for download by any email server receiving emails with the encrypted digital signature. DMARC Implementation and Fees.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 11, 2022

Much of the hard evidence came from correlating breached databases sitting in the open Internet. Statistically, every US internet user has lost 27 data points on average to online breaches, most of them emails, passwords and usernames. Data scientists sorted through 27,000 leaked databases and created 5 billion combinations of data.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 29, 2023

Built on alphaMountain’s domain and IP threat intelligence APIs, threatYeti is a browser-based investigation tool that provides a fast, search-based interface to deliver real-time threat verdicts for any internet host.

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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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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

With the recent demise of several popular “proxy” services that let cybercriminals route their malicious traffic through hacked PCs, there is now something of a supply chain crisis gripping the underbelly of the Internet. A review of the Internet addresses historically used by Super-socks[.]biz Image: Spur.us.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2021

CVE-2021-3007 – deserialization flaw that affects the Zend Framework (disclosed on January 3, 2021). Supports UDP and TCP packets, but also application layer protocols such as HTTP, DNS, SSDP, and SNMP Protocol packing support created by the attacker. DDOS and Flooding – HTTP, DNS, SYN Self-implementation of Slowlaris.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The name provides an immediate association with Log4Shell which had quite the impact and ranked #1 in the CISA top 5 most routinely exploited vulnerabilities of 2021. The vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2022- 42889 , but security researchers have dubbed it Log4Text. Starting with version 1.5 and continuing through 1.9, Similarities.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 11, 2021

We looked at REvil, also known as Sodinokibi or Sodin, earlier in the year in a Threat Trends blog on DNS Security. In it we talked about how REvil/Sodinokibi compromised far more endpoints than Ryuk, but had far less DNS communication. However, when revisiting these metrics, we noticed that this changed in the beginning of 2021.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Log4Shell is a high severity vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) impacting Apache Log4j versions 2.0 It was discovered by Chen Zhaojun of Alibaba Cloud Security Team and disclosed via the project´s GitHub repository on December 9, 2021. in early December 2021. rmi|dns):/[^n]+' /var/log. Executive summary. Conclusion.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 31, 2021

The Domain Name System ( DNS ) translates domain names used by people, like blog.malwarebytes.com into the IP addresses used by computers, like 130.211.198.3. The DNS system is often compared to a phone book where you can look up a person’s name to find their phone number. CVE-2021-28918. For that we can use either 0.0.0.0

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 11, 2021

On November 30, 2021 , the Apache log4j2 team became aware of a bug that would allow injection of malicious input that could allow for remote code execution. It was only on December 9, 2021 that the security community largely became aware of this finding and the far reaching impacts of it. Identifying if your server is attackable?

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 27, 2018

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continue to erupt all across the Internet showing not the faintest hint of leveling off, much less declining, any time soon. Related video: How DDoS attacks leverage the Internet’s DNA. This is borne out by Akamai Technologies’ Summer 2018 Internet Security/Web Attack Report.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2022

Microsoft in November fended off a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in its Azure cloud that officials said was the largest ever recorded, the latest in a wave of record attacks that washed over the IT industry in the second half of 2021. There was one peak in the attack, which lasted about 15 minutes.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2021

“In these attacks, HAFNIUM-associated systems were observed using a DNS service typically associated with testing activity to fingerprint systems.”. Also read: Top Vulnerability Management Tools for 2021. Also read: Best Patch Management Software for 2021. Further reading: Best Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) Tools of 2021.

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