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JUNE 26, 2025

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Password Management

Penetration Testing

JUNE 9, 2025

Key tactics included: Obfuscation using ScatterBrain and ScatterBee Use of DLL hijacking DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) for C2 communication Exploitation of vulnerable enterprise infrastructure (e.g., The cluster included a notable intrusion into a South Asian government IT provider. Support independent cybersecurity journalism.

Penetration Testing

Zero Day

JULY 14, 2025

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Artificial Intelligence

Zero Day

JUNE 27, 2025

Indeed, we follow strict guidelines that ensure our editorial content is never influenced by advertisers. One way they do this is by closely monitoring your IP address and DNS requests, or through web trackers.   I did my own tests, switching between random servers while also monitoring my IPv4/IPv6 addresses and DNS information.

VPN

Zero Day

JUNE 10, 2025

Indeed, we follow strict guidelines that ensure our editorial content is never influenced by advertisers. Just to name a few, you have Safe Browsing to protect you from malware online, DNS (domain name system) encryption to cover your digital footprint, plus an ad blocker. Privacy Policy | | Cookie Settings | Advertise | Terms of Use

Password Management

Zero Day

JUNE 13, 2025

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VPN

Zero Day

JUNE 30, 2025

Indeed, we follow strict guidelines that ensure our editorial content is never influenced by advertisers. Just to name a few, you have Safe Browsing to protect you from malware online, DNS (domain name system) encryption to cover your digital footprint, plus an ad blocker. Privacy Policy | | Cookie Settings | Advertise | Terms of Use

Password Management

Zero Day

JUNE 25, 2025

Indeed, we follow strict guidelines that ensure our editorial content is never influenced by advertisers. Also:  How to turn on Android's Private DNS mode -- and why it's an absolute must for security You want to create a Day of the Week/Month trigger for this macro. All rights reserved.

Password Management

Zero Day

JUNE 25, 2025

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Zero Day

JUNE 24, 2025

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Artificial Intelligence

Zero Day

JUNE 23, 2025

Indeed, we follow strict guidelines that ensure our editorial content is never influenced by advertisers. Also: How to turn on Android's Private DNS mode - and why it's an absolute must for security Show more This is the pop-up you'll see when you long-press a launcher in your Android App Drawer or home screen.

Password Management

Zero Day

JULY 6, 2025

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Wireless

Zero Day

JULY 11, 2025

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Wireless

Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2020

US DHS CISA urges government agencies to patch SIGRed Windows Server DNS vulnerability within 24h due to the likelihood of the issue being exploited. The SigRed flaw was discovered by Check Point researcher Sagi Tzaik and impacts Microsoft Windows DNS. reads the analysis published by CheckPoint. ” states Krebs.

DNS

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The Linux.org website was defaced last week via DNS hijack, attackers breached into associated registrar account and changed the DNS settings. “This evening someone got into my partner’s netsol account and pointed linux.org DNS to their own cloudflare account. DNS was simply pointing to another box.”

DNS

Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2019

Iran-linked APT group OilRig is heavily leveraging on DNS tunneling for its cyber espionage campaigns, Palo Alto Networks reveals. Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks reported that Iran-linked APT group OilRig is heavily leveraging on DNS tunneling for its cyber espionage campaigns, Palo Alto Networks reveals.

DNS

Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2019

Security experts at Bad Packets uncovered a DNS hijacking campaign that is targeting the users of popular online services, including Gmail, Netflix, and PayPal. Hackers compromised consumer routers and modified the DNS settings to redirect users to fake websites designed to trick victims into providing their login credentials.

DNS

Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2019

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued a security advisory to warn organizations of DNS hijacking attacks and provided recommendations this type of attack. In response to the numerous DNS hijacking attacks the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued an alert to warn organizations of this type of attack.

DNS

Zero Day

JUNE 25, 2025

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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.”.

DNS

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.

DNS

Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

The SigRed flaw was discovered by Check Point researcher Sagi Tzaik and impacts Microsoft Windows DNS. An attacker could exploit the SigRed vulnerability by sending specially-crafted malicious DNS queries to a Windows DNS server. Non-Microsoft DNS Servers are not affected.”

DNS

Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2019

The peculiarity of this new piece of malware is the ability to communicate with C2 servers via DNS over HTTPS ( DoH ). The DoH protocol was a new standard proposed in October 2018 and it is currently supported by several publicly available DNS servers. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Booter services are typically advertised through a variety of methods, including Dark Web forums, chat platforms and even youtube.com. ” For one thing, the booter services targeted in this takedown advertised the ability to “resolve” or determine the true Internet address of a target.

DNS

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Experts at SEC Consult discovered several security issues in various Zyxel devices that allow to hack them via unauthenticated DNS requests. The first issue is an information disclosure flaw via unauthenticated external DNS requests that affect Zyxel devices from the USG, UAG, ATP, VPN and NXC series. Pierluigi Paganini.

DNS

Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

HYAS said it quickly notified the French national computer emergency team and the FBI about its findings, which pointed to a dynamic domain name system (DNS) provider on which the purveyors of this attack campaign relied for their various malware servers. ‘FATAL’ ERROR.

DNS

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

One of dozens of FedEx-themed phishing sites currently being advertised via SMS spam. The true Internet address of the link included in the FedEx SMS phishing campaign is hidden behind content distribution network Cloudflare , but a review of its domain name system (DNS) records shows it resolves to 23.92.29[.]42. com, g001bfedeex[.]com,

Phishing

Cisco Security

MARCH 27, 2021

Shrink the DNS attack surface with Auth-DoH. In this analogy, the invisibility superpower is DNS over HTTPS (DoH). It’s a new protocol that encrypts the DNS request to keep bad actors from discovering or altering domain names or snooping on users’ internet destinations. My inspiration: Loki , the Marvel superhero.) The problem?

DNS

Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2018

Crooks are targeting DLink DSL modem routers in Brazil to redirect users to fake bank websites by carrying out DNS hijacking. Crooks are targeting DLink DSL modem routers in Brazil to redirect users to fake bank websites by changing the DNS settings. D-Link DSL-2740R / Unauthenticated Remote DNS Change Exploit [link].

DNS

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. .

DDOS

Security Boulevard

JUNE 19, 2024

DNS enables the easy navigation from website to website as you currently know it. Many DNS resolvers - such as your internet service provider's (ISP) - do not encrypt queries and may log data and metadata surrounding your queries. Fortunately, using an encrypted DNS server provider can be a viable option for some users out there.

DNS

Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2018

Cybersecurity firm NCC Group has released an open source tool for penetration testers that allows carrying out DNS rebinding attacks. Security firm NCC Group has released an open source tool for penetration testing dubbed Singularity of Origin that allows carrying out DNS rebinding attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

DNS

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. Pierluigi Paganini.

Passwords

Cisco Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Auth-DoH is essentially a safer way to publicly advertise private services. It’s a forward-looking idea to improve DNS security. DDR allows for upgrading from insecure DNS to secure DNS. First, the network still acts as a policy enforcement point and secondly DNS is more secure for both the enterprise and end user.

DNS

The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

With browser makers steadily clamping down on third-party tracking, advertising technology companies are increasingly embracing a DNS technique to evade such defenses, thereby posing a threat to web security and privacy.

DNS

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The service is currently advertising access to more than 150,000 devices globally. “We believe we are only seeing part of the full botnet, which may lead to more than 150,000 infected computers as advertised by BHProxies’ operators,” Arnoud wrote. 5, 2014 , but historic DNS records show BHproxies[.]com com on Mar.

Accountability

Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2018

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) announced the presence of a serious flaw in the BIND DNS software that can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The “deny-answer-aliases” feature is was implemented to help recursive server operators protect users against DNS rebinding attacks.

DNS