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DHS issues emergency Directive to prevent DNS hijacking attacks

Security Affairs

DHS has issued a notice of a CISA emergency directive urging federal agencies of improving the security of government-managed domains (i.e.gov) to prevent DNS hijacking attacks. The notice was issued by the DHS and links the emergency directive Emergency Directive 19-01 titled “Mitigate DNS Infrastructure Tampering.”.

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Massive Surge in DDoS Attacks Reported in First Quarter of 2023

CyberSecurity Insiders

StormWall , a premier cybersecurity firm specializing in the defense of websites, networks, and online services from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, has published an in-depth report on the DDoS landscape during the first quarter of 2023. The average attack strength reached 1.4 targeting the DNS, and the remaining 3.7%

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What is a Managed Security Service Provider? MSSPs Explained

eSecurity Planet

History of MSSPs As internet service providers (ISPs) and telecommunications companies (telecoms) began offering commercial access to the internet in the late 1990s, they began to also offer firewall appliances and associated managed services. As cyber attacks continue to increase in number and sophistication, the need for MSSPs grows.

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Alleged Iran-linked APT groups behind global DNS Hijacking campaign

Security Affairs

Security expert uncovered a DNS hijacking campaign targeting organizations in various industries worldwide and suspects Iranian APT groups. The same IPs were previously associated with cyber attacks conducted by Iranian cyberspies. With these techniques, attackers are able to harvest usernames , passwords and domain credentials.

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SolarWinds SUNBURST Backdoor DGA and Infected Domain Analysis

CyberSecurity Insiders

Basically, the attacker employs two different decoding functions: one is a customized BASE32_decode function and another is a more customized letter replacement cipher when the domain name only has lower cases plus [0_-.]. Infected Domains Analysis.

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