Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2024

The malware remained undetected by VirusTotal antivirus engines as of December 2024. It employs DNS over HTTPS (DoH) to evade network monitoring tools and encrypts configurations with AES-256-CBC. The Iranian group claims to have compromised 200 gas stations in Israel and the U.S. d/S93InitSystemd.sh.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 29, 2024

At its core, this tactic revolves around gaming the trust users put in reputable internet services, including search engines, and the familiarity they have with online advertising per se. One way or another, the fact persists that search engine abuse can amplify the problem.

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SecureList

MAY 17, 2021

In this article we analyse the technical features of the Trojan’s components, giving a detailed overview of obfuscation techniques, the infection process and subsequent functions, as well as the social engineering tactics used by the cybercriminals to convince their victims to give away their personal online banking details. Bizarro.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 18, 2022

Antivirus and EDR tools, SIEM systems (security information and event management), security vendors, software, hardware, firmware, and operating systems. Public WHOIS data such as DNS name servers, IP blocks, and contact information. Credentials, emails, employee names, roles, departments/divisions, and physical location.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 22, 2023

Securing SMB Success: The Indispensable Role of Protective DNS Cyber attacks pose as much risk to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) as they do to large organizations — if not more. Implementing a Domain Name Service (DNS) security solution is the most efficient way to protect your business against a wide variety of attacks.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Today, weaponized Microsoft office documents with macros, are one of the most common and more effective methods to deliver malware, because they also rely on simple social engineering tricks to lure users to enable them. . Last DNS activity was in December 2018. Figure 14 – previous DNS of C2. Technical analysis.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Monitoring infrastructure like Domain Name Servers (DNS) and web servers for malicious activity. Endpoint protection software such as EDR tools go way beyond traditional antivirus software to offer advanced features like incident response and vulnerability management. Use endpoint security tools. Behavioral detection.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2019

The file has a very low detection rate on VirusTotal platform: only four AV engines are able to identify it as malicious and only on engine understands it may be associated to the Gamaredon implant. Information about C2 and relative DNS. Content of malicious e-mail. Low AV detection of SFX malware.

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Fox IT

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Gone are the days of executing malicious binaries from disk, especially ones well known to antivirus and Endpoint Detection and Reponse (EDR) vendors. Take for example the recently uncovered XZ 1 backdoor that was spotted by a software engineer due to an increase in login time from 0.2

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

FortiSASE User Subscriptions The basic user subscription for the FortiSASE product provides secure internet access through SSL inspection, inline antivirus, inline sandbox, intrusion prevention systems (IPS), botnet command and control protection, inline CASB, inline DLP, website filtering, and DNS address filtering. Mbps of bandwidth.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 29, 2023

Executive summary Credential harvesting is a technique that hackers use to gain unauthorized access to legitimate credentials using a variety of strategies, tactics, and techniques such as phishing and DNS poisoning. Running an antivirus scan on the asset. of cases in 2020. of cases in 2020. Blocking the URL domain and IP.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Mimecast uses multi-layered detection engines to identify and neutralize threats, stopping malware, spam and targeted attacks before they reach the network. The Mimecast Email Security service is delivered as a single cloud solution with all functions integrated and engineered to work together. The Best Secure Email Gateways.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Adapt and update as malware continues to evolve and become more sophisticated to evade detection by antimalware/antivirus programs. Products range from antivirus protection that also picks up ransomware, to full security suites that bundle in AV, ransomware protection and a lot more. Linking engine remediation. DNS filtering.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 20, 2024

Weekly Threat Intelligence Report Date: May 20, 2024 Prepared by: David Brunsdon, Threat Intelligence - Security Engineer, HYAS Cyber Threat Intelligence Analysis This week in the HYAS Insight threat intelligence platform, we found a concerning open directory hosting multiple pieces of malware. Malware Analysis 1. eu, supfoundrysettlers[.]us,

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 8, 2023

It can be time consuming to establish these protocols on an organization’s DNS servers, but doing so will provide two key benefits. Email security tools offer features that screen emails for malicious content using antivirus, anti-spam, DNS, attachment, and other analytics.

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The problems cover all sorts of services, including streaming platforms, email providers, antivirus subscriptions, and even public records. Cisco Secure Malware Analytics is the malware analysis and malware threat intelligence engine behind all products across the Cisco Security Architecture.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Versa Unified SASE provides carrier-grade performance and a host of deployment options expected by experienced network engineers and security professionals.

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SecureList

JUNE 2, 2022

Seeing that some variants of their Android malware impersonate a popular messaging app in Asia, it is also likely that malicious APKs are distributed in a variety of ways, including social engineering to convince users to install fake updates for their applications. Indicators of Compromise. WinDealer samples.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 3, 2023

When people use their browsers in this way, depending on their level of sophistication, they may not understand that they are actually performing a search — and Google is set as the default search engine for many browsers. Next-gen protective DNS. So what is the missing layer of defense in this real-world scenario?

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The vulnerability is in MSHTML, the Internet Explorer engine. Even though few people use IE nowadays, some programs use its engine to handle web content – in particular, Microsoft Office applications. If the victim opens the document, Microsoft Office downloads the script and runs it using the MSHTML engine. In version 16.80.0

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Endpoint security : protects endpoints with antivirus, endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools, etc. Other hackers might use a spoofed domain name system (DNS) or IP addresses to redirect users from legitimate connections (to websites, servers, etc.) endpoint security (antivirus, Endpoint Detection and Response, etc.),

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 17, 2024

Antivirus Inspection Not all RBI products will prioritize this time factor. This can be accomplished in a couple of different ways depending on the capabilities and configuration of the RBI implementation using either DNS C2 or Third-Party C2. Once you establish a DNS C2 foothold, work into a GET-only HTTP C2 channel.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Threat Intelligence Report Date: September 4, 2024 Prepared by: David Brunsdon, Threat Intelligence - Security Engineer, HYAS Malware, short for malicious software, refers to any software designed to harm, exploit or otherwise compromise the functionality and security of computers, networks and devices.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2023

Spear phishing is a highly effective technique as it uses personalization, mind manipulation, and social engineering to exploit human vulnerabilities. Using Social Engineering Methods Social engineering involves the manipulation of people’s psychology so that they respond in a specific way.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Upon startup, this backdoor makes a type A DNS request for the <hex-encoded 20-byte string> u.fdmpkg[.]org After parsing the response to the DNS request, the backdoor launches a reverse shell, using the secondary C2 server for communications. org domain.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

Although Lyceum still prefers taking advantage of DNS tunneling, it appears to have replaced the previously documented.NET payload with a new C++ backdoor and a PowerShell script that serve the same purpose. Other interesting discoveries. Some of the samples cannot be associated with any known activity. Final thoughts.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Don Duncan, security engineer at NuData Security, told eSecurity Planet by email that POS systems are often dangerously easy to penetrate with malware , including the following (among many others): Dexter was discovered by Seculert (now Radware) researchers in 2012. Evolving threats. Errors to avoid.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Similarly, spoofed domain name system (DNS) and IP addresses can redirect users from legitimate connections to dangerous and malicious websites. Endpoint Security: Antivirus , anti-spyware , endpoint detection and response (EDR), and other controls should be deployed to secure the endpoint against compromise.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2023

As a result, this technique may bypass static antivirus signatures and complicate malware reverse engineering. Prior to this date, in 2021, the domain was registered and hosted by a previous owner, with DNS resolution observed through October of 2021. The builder enables operators to specify up to four C2 endpoints.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

He works for an antivirus company and he's been scanning for malware families on the internet. So what we do is reverse engineer malware samples. Vamosi: Most antivirus products are found on Windows, much less so on Mac and Linux. At this year's sector. I spoke with someone who built a scanner that's designed to repeatedly scan.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. The Bash shell Fox created was a simple yet powerful way for engineers to glue web software to the operating system. And why not?

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. The Bash shell Fox created was a simple yet powerful way for engineers to glue web software to the operating system. And why not?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Russian software engineer Eugene Kaspersky’s frustration with the malware of the 80s and 90s led to the founding of antivirus and cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky Lab. Graham Cluley started as a videogame developer and antivirus programmer three decades ago before serving in senior roles at Sophos and McAfee.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Install an antivirus solution that includes anti-adware capabilities. If your antivirus software fails to notice a new strain, you can reinstall the browser. Phishing and Social Engineering. Users sometimes unknowingly infect themselves with adware installed by default when they download and install other applications.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 22, 2025

Government agencies and researchers sometimes alter DNS addresses to lead the traffic to their own servers (called sinkholes). Lumma often spreads through phishing emails and malicious downloads, sometimes disguised as legitimate CAPTCHAs or antivirus software.

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