Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The popular encrypted email service Tutanota was hit with a series of DDoS attacks this week targeting its website fist and its DNS providers later. Encrypted email service, Tutanota suffered a series of DDoS attacks that initially targeted the website and later its DNS providers. “As a result these providers went down.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2019

Experts discovered security flaws in EA Games’ login process that could allow an attacker to take over EA gamers’ accounts and steal sensitive data. In order to hijack a gamer’s EA account the attackers have to chain the flaws and trick the victims into opening an official webpage from the EA Games website.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

Between 2017 and 2019, the APT group mainly used DNS hijacking in its campaigns. The group targets government entities, Kurdish (political) groups like PKK, telecommunication, ISPs, IT-service providers (including security companies), NGO, and Media & Entertainment sectors; Over the years, the group enhanced its evasion capabilities.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 8, 2020

Use a password manager to make and store good passwords that are different for every account/device. The second most important thing to do is make sure you keep all your computers and devices updated with security fixes. Most peoples’ highest risk systems are their primary email account and their mobile phone account.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This week, the Reddit security team attributed the leak of US-UK trade documents through its platform to a coordinated information campaign linked to Russia. “We We investigated this account and the accounts connected to it, and today we believe this was part of a campaign that has been reported as originating from Russia.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2020

Linksys has reset passwords for all its customers’ after learning on ongoing DNS hijacking attacks aimed at delivering malware. Hackers compromise D-Link and Linksys routers and change DNS settings to redirect users to bogus sites proposing a fake COVID-19 information app from the World Health Organization.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 22, 2024

In December 2023, the US charged two Russians believed to be members of this group, for their role in a campaign that hacked government accounts. Typically, the group creates an impersonation account that pretends to be an expert in a field the target might be interested in or that is somehow affiliated with the target.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In part two, we are going deep with security: Integrating Security. Automated Account Provisioning, by Adi Sankar. Integrating Meraki Scanning Data with Umbrella Security Events, by Christian Clasen. Integrating Security. Integrating Security. Cisco Umbrella : DNS visibility and security.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

In December 2017, the popular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta was hacked, attackers conducted a DNS attack that allowed to steal at least 308 ETH ($266,789 at the time of the hack) as well as a large number of tokens. Clearly the access to the CEO account allowed the hacker to breach the company.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2020

Hackers compromiseD -Link and Linksys routers and change DNS settings to redirect users to bogus sites proposing a fake COVID-19 information app from the World Health Organization. In some cases, users were infected with the Oski information-stealing malware. . 234.35.230 and 94 [. 103.82.249. washington.edu imageshack.us

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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. ” reads the analysis published by the experts.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2021

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts. LeakedSource also tried to pass itself off as a legal, legitimate business that was marketing to security firms and professionals. An administrator account Xerx3s on Abusewithus.

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Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Cisco Secure supports the NOC operations with DNS visibility and architecture intelligence ( Cisco Umbrella and Cisco Umbrella Investigate ) and automated malware analysis and threat intelligence ( Cisco Secure Malware Analytics (Threat Grid) , backed by Cisco Talos Intelligence and Cisco SecureX ).

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2023

The cyberspies often use accounts that have been previously compromised. ini), which will contain the hash sums of the stolen files (taking into account some meta-data). The group uses third-party services and/or resources of Telegram (Telegraph) to determine the IP addresses of C2 and avoid using the DNS subsystem.

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Social Engineering DNS Accountability Malware 94

Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2020

Let’s consider mybrowser.microsoft.com, it might have resolved by the DNS to something like webserver9000.azurewebsites.net. But experts discovered that Microsoft did not take care of DNS entries for the sub-domains that for some reason it stops to update. ” states a report published by the security duo.

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DNS Phishing Advertising Malware 89

Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2023

The malicious code performs a DNS request every 24 hours to resolve a subdomain (hardcoded string unique for each victim). “The executable code of BellaCiao compares a resolved IP address returned by a DNS server under the control of a threat actor with an IP address that has been hardcoded into the program.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2023

Twitter confirmed that a security incident publicly exposed Circle tweets FBI seized other domains used by the shadow eBook library Z-Library WordPress Advanced Custom Fields plugin XSS exposes +2M sites to attacks Fortinet fixed two severe issues in FortiADC and FortiOS Pro-Russia group NoName took down multiple France sites, including the French (..)

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

The group was observed using this scheme between 2019 and 2020, and according to the experts, most of the compromised email accounts belong to defense companies in the Middle East. It is unclear why APT28 is using compromised email accounts of (mostly) defense companies in the Middle East. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. 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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Cryptocurrency Data breaches DNS DDOS 79

Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2022

Stolen data included is DNS infrastructure, private keys for SSL, sberbank API, CLI and SDKs. Data included is DNS infrastructure, private keys for SSL, sberbank API, CLI and SDKs. BREAKING Sberbank, a Russian state-owned bank has been breached. Data will be uploaded soon.

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Banking DNS Manufacturing Hacking 94

Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2020

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 30, 2023

Huge arrays of unstructured data utilized and modified by many users as well as the ever-growing complexity of attacks, lead to the fact that the usual means of protecting the perimeter of a corporate network no longer meet current information security requirements. What is Data-Centric Audit and Protection?

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Technology Unstructured Data Data breaches Information Security 75

Lenny Zeltser

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Saying that security is “everyone’s responsibility” might lead to it being “nobody’s responsibility.” To distribute security responsibilities among the stakeholders, we need to counteract the diffusion of responsibility. Monitor for gaps and take action when the right security steps aren’t taken.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Datacenter Proxies: Choosing the Right Option CISA adds Roundcube Webmail Persistent XSS bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Canada Gov plans to ban the Flipper Zero to curb car thefts ExpressVPN leaked DNS requests due to a bug in the split tunneling feature 9 Possible Ways Hackers Can Use Public Wi-Fi to Steal Your Sensitive Data US (..)

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2019

Lyceum was observed using password spraying and brute-force attacks to compromise email accounts of targeted individuals. “LYCEUM initially accesses an organization using account credentials obtained via password spraying or brute-force attacks. The malware uses DNS and HTTP-based communication mechanisms.

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DNS Passwords Penetration Testing Social Engineering 80

Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2023

The Elementor Pro and WooCommerce compromise path allows authenticated users to modify WordPress configurations to create administrator accounts or inject URL redirects into website pages or posts. Some are less obvious, such as ensuring sound DNS security through solutions like Cisco Umbrella or DNSFilter. com/wp-admin/?wc-ajax=1”.

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Malware DNS Software Penetration Testing 78

Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2022

com Running PowerShell scripts directly from a GitHub gist created by an account associated with DSIRF. Researchers from threat intelligence firm RiskIQ, using passive DNS data related to Knotweed attacks, linked the C2 infrastructure used by the malware since February 2020 to DSIRF.

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2021

CISA MAR report provides technical details of FiveHands Ransomware SQL injection issue in Anti-Spam WordPress Plugin exposes User Data TsuNAME flaw exposes DNS servers to DDoS attacks City of Tulsa, is the last US city hit by ransomware attack City of Tulsa, is the latest US city hit by ransomware attack FBI confirmed that Darkside ransomware gang (..)

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Banking Ransomware DNS DDOS 71

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The most severe issues addressed this month are: CVE-2022-21984 : Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2022-22005 : Microsoft SharePoint Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. In order to exploit this flaw, an attacker needs to take additional actions prior to prepare the target environment.

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DNS Accountability Mobile Hacking 73

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The hacktivists have stolen 180GB of data of user, registration, forwarding and other information and leaked it on the DDoSecrets non-profit whistleblower site. According to the hackers, stolen data includes: Domain purchases Domain transfers WHOIS history DNS changes Email forwards, catch-alls, etc.

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Hacking Data breaches DNS Media 104

Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2023

GitHub removed the accounts after SentinelOne reported the abuse to the company. Experts observed threat actors also using No-IP Dynamic DNS services. Early commits to the ddos_config repo were made in the name of “Роман Омельченко”. The current C2 server is zig35m48zur14nel40[.]myftp.org

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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.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2019

They ask you to make certain changes in your account by entering your login password or ask for some reconfirmation. The motto behind the email is to lend you to a fake web page that is designed for the sole purpose of stealing user information. The most common type is phishing is carried out through fraudulent email receptionist.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

Network security: Includes Direct Connect (DC) private and public interfaces; DMZ, VPC, and VNet endpoints; transit gateways; load balancers; and DNS. Network security: Includes Direct Connect (DC) private and public interfaces; DMZ, VPC, and VNet endpoints; transit gateways; load balancers; and DNS.

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