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.

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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.

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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.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts. Abusewith[.]us

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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

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

MARCH 10, 2020

Who is hacking the hackers? Experts from Cybereason a mysterious hackers group is targeting other hackers by spreading tainted hacking tools. Experts from security firm Cybereason warn of a mysterious group of hackers that are distributing trojanized hacking tools on an almost daily basis for the past years. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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.

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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.”

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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. SecurityAffairs – TalkTalk, hacking).

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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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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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Tutanota).

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2019

The hacker that hacked and defaced Matrix.org decided to disclose the security issues discovered during the attack and offers advice. This week, the hacker behind the hack of Matrix.org decided to disclose the vulnerabilities discovered during the attack. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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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].

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2018

The experts demonstrated the remote management of the Twinkly lights carrying out the DNS rebinding attack technique. A DNS rebinding attack allows any website to create a DNS name that they are authorized to communicate with, and then make it resolve to localhost. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – SDUSD , data breach).

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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.

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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.

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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. Image: Spur.us. SocksEscort is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

“Using the internal router, it would be possible to poison the DNS cache of the LAN router of the infected node, enabling further attacks.” net , which advertised “free unlimited internet file-sharing platform” for those who agreed to install their software. A cached copy of flashupdate[.]net

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

To verify this I’ve sent a crafted payload which enable the remote server (incometaxindia.gov.in) to perform a DNS lookup on my burp collaborator. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Original post at: [link].

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2020

A remote attacker could exploit the flaw by sending specially crafted IP packets or DNS requests to the vulnerable devices. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – Ripple20, hacking).

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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. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Cyber Defense Magazine November 2020 ). Click here to check out or media kit and market with us, today. email: marketing@cyberdefensemagazine.com.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Qurium analyzes the blocking implemented by four different operators in Belarus Belarus operators use their own infrastructure to implement the blocking Block techniques include transparent web proxies, injection of HTTP responses, stateless and stateful SSL DPI and fake DNS responses. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Internet).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2020

“The technique relies on a DNS Tunneling communication channel through a custom implementation of the iodine source code , an open-source software that enables the tunneling of IPv4 data through a DNS server. Experts also highlighted the use of DNS tunneling for C2 communication. SecurityAffairs – Winnti, hacking).

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2019

But when accounts at those CRM providers get hacked or phished, the results can be damaging for both the client’s brand and their customers. One source who had at least two employees fall for the scheme forwarded KrebsOnSecurity a response from UR’s privacy division, which blamed the incident on a third-party advertising partner.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

“ Fortinet products, including FortiGate and Forticlient regularly send information to Fortinet servers (DNS: guard.fortinet.com) on. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – Fortinet, hacking).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

“The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN ) believes that there is an ongoing and significant risk to key parts of the Domain Name System ( DNS ) infrastructure. 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

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.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2019

Roaming Mantis surfaced in March 2018 when hacked routers in Japan redirecting users to compromised websites. Attackers used a new method of phishing with malicious mobile configurations along with previously observed DNS manipulation technique. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Unlike other IoT DDoS botnets, Ttint implements 12 remote access functions such as Socket5 proxy for router devices, tampering with router firewall and DNS settings, executing remote custom system commands. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Ttint botnet).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2021

Security experts disclosed nine flaws, collectively tracked as NAME:WRECK, affecting implementations of the DNS protocol in popular TCP/IP network communication stacks. “The widespread use of these stacks and often external exposure of vulnerable DNS clients lead to a dramatically increased attack surface.” ” ù. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Security experts from Qihoo 360 NetLab have uncovered an ongoing hacking campaign that leverages the GhostDNS malware. Attackers have already hijacked over 100,000 home routers, the malicious code allows to modify DNS settings to hijack the traffic and redirect users to phishing websites. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2019

In April, the researcher Nick Cano discovered that BlueStacks versions prior than v4.90.0.1046 are affected by a DNS rebinding vulnerability that allowed attackers to gain access to the emulator’s IPC functions. Other issues included information disclosure and a flaw that allowed attackers to steal backups of the VM and its data.

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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. Experts from BleepingComputer reported that attackers would change the configured DNS servers to 109 [. 234.35.230 and 94 [. 103.82.249. com winimage.com.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2020

.” According to the Japanese security expert Masafumi Negishi, threat actors modified the primary DNS entry for the coincheck.com domain. ???????????? Coincheck uses Amazon’s managed DNS service, the attackers first registered a fake domain to the AWS server and replaced the legitimate awsdns-61.org NS ????????????

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