Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Experts at Cisco Talos and other security firms quickly drew parallels between the two mass spam campaigns, pointing to a significant overlap in Russia-based Internet addresses used to send the junk emails. Large-scale spam campaigns often are conducted using newly-registered or hacked email addresses, and/or throwaway domains.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They might even lock you out of your own accounts by resetting your passwords. Hackers use intercepted data to hijack your current session on a website, giving them access to your private accounts and information. Check your social media accounts for active sessions and log out of any you don’t recognize.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

US authorities have indicted two men for hacking the exchange EtherDelta in December 2017, one of them was also accused of TalkTalk hack. US authorities have indicted two men, Elliot Gunton and Anthony Tyler Nashatka, for hacking the cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta in 2017. ” reported ZDNet.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2019

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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

Between 2017 and 2019, the APT group mainly used DNS hijacking in its campaigns. Sea Turtle also used code from a publicly accessible GitHub account, which is likely under the control of the threat actor. Sea Turtle also used code from a publicly accessible GitHub account, which is likely under the control of the threat actor.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2023

While analyzing billions of DNS records, Infoblox researchers discovered a sophisticated malware toolkit, dubbed Decoy Dog, that was employed in attacks aimed at enterprise networks. The researchers pointed out that while the malware is open source, deploying it as a DNS C2 requires a significant effort.

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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. The mail account hostmaster@urlblocked.pw, published as contact details in DNS, bounces all incoming mails.

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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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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

BitSight researchers found significant overlap in the Internet addresses used by those domains and a domain called BHproxies[.]com. The account didn’t resume posting on the forum until April 2014. Reached via LinkedIn, Mr. Shotliff said he sold his BHProxies account to another Black Hat World forum user from Egypt back in 2014.

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Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

A whopping 97 percent failed to use DNSSEC , a domain security protocol designed to address core vulnerabilities in the foundations of the internet itself. ” Hacking campaigns exploiting poor domain name security can be more subtle. That spells trouble if you’re the one that gets hacked. A Prime Target for Hackers.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 6, 2021

As indoor spaces begin to open in the next few months, employees will want to venture out to new spaces to work, such as coffee shops and internet cafes – but working on open networks and personal devices creates unlocked gateways for cyberattacks to take place. DNS is frequently targeted by. DNS is frequently targeted by.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, in 2010 Spamdot and its spam affiliate program Spamit were hacked, and its user database shows Sal and Icamis often accessed the forum from the same Internet address — usually from Cherepovets , an industrial town situated approximately 230 miles north of Moscow. bank accounts. w s, icamis[.]ru

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

guru’s registration records also are hidden, yet passive domain name system (DNS) records for both cryptor[.]biz Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 reports that obelisk57@gmail.com was used to register an account on the forum Blacksoftware under the nickname “ Kerens.” .” Crypt[.]guru’s biz and crypt[.]guru

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

builder Over 39K unauthenticated Redis services on the internet targeted in cryptocurrency campaign Hackers stole $160 Million from Crypto market maker Wintermute U.S. builder Over 39K unauthenticated Redis services on the internet targeted in cryptocurrency campaign Hackers stole $160 Million from Crypto market maker Wintermute U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 1, 2019

What this tells me is that the presidential candidates, at least, actually appear to be heeding lessons learned from the hacking John Podesta’s email account – and all of the havoc Russia was able to foment in our 2016 elections. Identify the applications, devices and accounts that you need to protect.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

The nation-state hackers are scanning the entire internet, in search of vulnerable webmail and Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover servers that expose TCP ports 445 and 1433. In May 2019, the experts noticed that the group started using hacked email addresses of numerous high-profile targets to send credential spam messages.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The TriFive backdoor uses an email-based channel that uses Exchange Web Services (EWS) to create drafts within the Deleted Items folder of a compromised email account.” “The Snugy backdoor uses a DNS tunneling channel to run commands on the compromised server. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Microsoft Exchange).

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 21, 2022

ESG Research says 69% of organizations have suffered a cyberattack that began with the exploitation of an unknown, unmanaged, or misconfigured internet-facing asset. While these aren’t generally the most critical assets, if these are exposed to the internet, they are easily available to attack by threat actors. What can be done.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Tina Peters, the election clerk in Mesa County (Colorado) went rogue and dumped disk images of an election computer on the Internet. They are available on the Internet via BitTorrent [ Mesa1 ][ Mesa2 ], The Colorado Secretary of State is now suing her over the incident. The account used was "emsadmin".

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Errata Security

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Tina Peters, the election clerk in Mesa County (Colorado) went rogue and dumped disk images of an election computer on the Internet. They are available on the Internet via BitTorrent [ Mesa1 ][ Mesa2 ], The Colorado Secretary of State is now suing her over the incident. The account used was "emsadmin".

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 21, 2021

One of the most common mistakes made by small businesses is that they adopt all new IT equipment and computers but leave their internet and Wi-Fi susceptible to external threats. In fact, over 25% of small businesses are using a VPN to access the internet. In fact, Phishing alone accounts for 90% of small business cyber attacks.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

One million cracked Poshmark accounts being sold online. USBAnywhere BMC flaws expose Supermicro servers to hack. Some Zyxel devices can be hacked via DNS requests. Twitter temporarily disables feature to tweet via SMS after CEO hack. Google report on iPhone hack created ‘False Impression, states Apple.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Pink also adopts the DNS-Over-HTTPS ( DoH ) for the distribution of configuration information that’s done either via a project hidden on GITHUB or Baidu Tieba, or via a built-in domain name hard-coded into some of the samples. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Pink botnet). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

change DNS settings to hijack the traffic, perform MitM attacks). This could allow an attacker to access the ISP account or the router itself if they admins reused the same credentials.” An attacker-controlled router can manipulate how your users resolve DNS hostnames to direct your users to malicious websites.”

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Users trigger the flaw by simply feeding a malicious printer driver to a vulnerable machine, and could use their new-found superpowers to install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. DNS elevation of privilege vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2019

It allows users using web browsers to set up user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Searching with Shodan for internet-exposed Webmin installs, it is possible to find over 217,000 instances, most of them located in the United States, France and Germany. SecurityAffairs – Webmin, hacking).

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Penetration testing can also involve common hacking techniques such as social engineering , phishing attacks , dropped USB drive attacks, etc. Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected to the network, such as security cameras, TVs, etc. “White hat” and ethical hacking certifications are just cool to have.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Earlier this year, 36 journalists, producers, anchors, and executives at Al Jazeera had their personal phones hacked. Their phones were hacked through the use of an exploit chain known as KISMET, an invisible zero-click exploit in iMessage. and could hack the Apple iPhone 11. What can this Pegasus iOS attack do?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 19, 2022

The internet can be a dangerous place. Rather than sending emails out to as many accounts as they can get their hands on, cybercriminals send out malicious emails to very specific individuals within an organization. . The victim, typing in a website address, is redirected by the DNS server to a malicious website IP address. .

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2019

. “Most recently, Necurs has been seen pushing out infostealers and RATs, like AZOrult and FlawedAmmyy , to targeted hosts based on specific information found on infected hosts and deploying a new sophisticated.NET spamming module which can send spam using a victim’s email accounts.” SecurityAffairs – Necurs botnet, hacking).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

It allows users using web browsers to set up user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Searching with Shodan for internet-exposed Webmin installs, it is possible to find over 233,000 instances, most of them located in the United States, France and Germany.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2019

Security expert uncovered a DNS hijacking campaign targeting organizations in various industries worldwide and suspects Iranian APT groups. It is interesting to note that FireEye confirmed that this campaign is different from other operations carried out by Iranian APT groups due to the use of DNS hijacking at scale.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

This instance left sensitive data open and was already indexed via popular IoT [internet of things] search engines. While these don’t expose either old or new passwords, the logs show the account holder’s email address, and the exact time the password change query was sent can be seen. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Thomson Reuters).

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. Or are they just the same old risks we've always had with data stored on the internet?

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

will buy it, but fears they won’t and instead it will get snatched up by someone working with organized cybercriminals or state-funded hacking groups bent on undermining the interests of Western corporations. O’Connor said he hopes Microsoft Corp. INSTANT CORPORATE BOTNET, ANYONE? Department of Homeland Security. Control corp.com.”

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