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A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

” The DNS part of that moniker refers to the global “ D omain N ame S ystem ,” which serves as a kind of phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly Web site names (example.com) into numeric Internet address that are easier for computers to manage. PASSIVE DNS. That changed on Jan.

DNS

DNS Internet Internet Government

GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

And in May of this year, GoDaddy disclosed that 28,000 of its customers’ web hosting accounts were compromised following a security incident in Oct. “This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. . ” In the early morning hours of Nov.

Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency VPN Scams Social Engineering

A week in security (July 12 – July 18)

Malwarebytes

JULY 19, 2021

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: DNS-over-HTTPS takes another small step towards global domination Nope, that isn’t Elon Musk , and he isn’t offering a free Topmist Dust watch either Four in-the-wild exploits, 13 critical patches headline bumper Patch Tuesday Is crypto’s criminal rollercoaster approaching a terminal dip? Stay safe!

DNS

DNS VPN Retail Mobile

Abusing cloud services to fly under the radar

Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

After obtaining a valid account, they use this account to access the victim’s VPN, Citrix or another remote service that allows access to the network of the victim. Information regarding these remotes services is taken from the mailbox, cloud drive, or other cloud resources accessible by the compromised account.

VPN

VPN Accountability Passwords DNS

Identity and Access Management (IAM) in Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) environments.

CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 6, 2023

This is the first of a series of consultant-written blogs around PCI DSS. GoDaddy, Network Solutions) DNS service (E.g., Entrust, DigiCert) IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a Service)) accounts (E.g.: GoDaddy, Network Solutions) DNS service (E.g., Akamai, CloudFront) Certificate providers (E.g.,

Accountability

Accountability DNS DDOS VPN

Nigerian Tesla: 419 scammer gone malware distributor unmasked

Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

In this blog, we expose some of the activities from a scammer who started off with classic advance-fee schemes and is now successfully running Agent Tesla campaigns. pw accounts, various scams). pw accounts, various scams). Test successful! The attacker sent a number of messages containing the body “Test successful!

Malware

Malware Scams Phishing Accountability

How much does access to corporate infrastructure cost?

SecureList

JUNE 15, 2022

I will buy accounts for access to corporate VPNs or firewalls (FortiGate, SonicWall, PulseSecure, etc.) Request for access to corporate VPN. A special mention should be made of the method for capturing legitimate accounts based on stealers. Profit will only be obtained from private service accounts. General topic.

VPN

VPN Accountability Ransomware Encryption

Sowing Chaos and Reaping Rewards in Confluence and Jira

Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2023

You decide to take a look at their DNS cache to get a list of internal resources the user has been browsing and as you look through the list, there are several that you recognize based on naming conventions. They’d have to be on the VPN to access it”). Introduction Let me paint a picture for you. version Display version information.

Authentication

Authentication Passwords Penetration Testing Social Engineering

Operation ‘Harvest’: A Deep Dive into a Long-term Campaign

McAfee

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

McAfee customers are protected from the malware/tools described in this blog. A more detailed blog with specific recommendations on using the McAfee portfolio and integrated partner solutions to defend against this attack can be found here. The hardcoded 208.67.222.222 resolves to a legitimate OpenDNS DNS server.

Malware

Malware DNS Accountability Manufacturing

Is India's Aadhaar System Really "Hack-Proof"? Assessing a Publicly Observable Security Posture

Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

Blocking legitimate users is part of that problem, blocking users wanting to protect their traffic with a VPN is another: This has been there for the past year now. They also blacklist vpn IP addresses. Much of what I'm going to cover in the remainder of this blog post will focus on the site at uidai.gov.in

Hacking

Hacking Government Risk Encryption

Transform your Architecture for the Cloud with MVISION UCE and SD-WAN

McAfee

AUGUST 23, 2020

In this blog we are going to focus in on remote offices and how the combination of SD-WAN and Next-Generation Secure Web Gateway capabilities offered by MVISION UCE can enable SASE and deliver on the promise of digital transformation. . While this approach sufficed for years, digital transformation has created major challenges.

Architecture

Architecture Digital transformation Internet Internet

Back to the Future of Firewall

Cisco Security

JUNE 15, 2021

Some of those early NGFW implementations took shortcuts to improve performance by simply treating all UDP/53 traffic as DNS and TCP/23 as Telnet, but eventually everyone invested in good enough DPI to get beyond those obvious pitfalls.

Firewall

Firewall Software Network Security Encryption

APT trends report Q3 2021

SecureList

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In June, more than six months after DarkHalo had gone dark, we observed the DNS hijacking of multiple government zones of a CIS member state that allowed the attacker to redirect traffic from government mail servers to computers under their control – probably achieved by obtaining credentials to the control panel of the victims’ registrar.

Malware

Malware Government Surveillance Spyware

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A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks

GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services

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A week in security (July 12 – July 18)

Abusing cloud services to fly under the radar

Identity and Access Management (IAM) in Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) environments.

Nigerian Tesla: 419 scammer gone malware distributor unmasked

How much does access to corporate infrastructure cost?

Sowing Chaos and Reaping Rewards in Confluence and Jira

Operation ‘Harvest’: A Deep Dive into a Long-term Campaign

Is India's Aadhaar System Really "Hack-Proof"? Assessing a Publicly Observable Security Posture

Transform your Architecture for the Cloud with MVISION UCE and SD-WAN

Back to the Future of Firewall

APT trends report Q3 2021

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