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Key Insights from the OpenText 2024 Threat Perspective

Webroot

For businesses, this means implementing a comprehensive incident response plan that includes secure, immutable backups and regular testing to ensure rapid recovery in the event of an attack. For businesses, this means implementing strong antivirus software, endpoint protection solutions, and regular software updates.

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Stories from the SOC: Fighting back against credential harvesting with ProofPoint

CyberSecurity Insiders

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. Blocking the URL domain and IP.

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No, I Did Not Hack Your MS Exchange Server

Krebs on Security

Oddly, none of the several dozen antivirus tools available to scan the file at Virustotal.com currently detect it as malicious. I’d been doxed via DNS. Here are a few of the more notable examples , although all of those events are almost a decade old. Just my Social Security number.

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Ad blocker with miner included

SecureList

Back then, cybercriminals distributed malware under the guise of the Malwarebytes antivirus installer. After substituting the DNS servers, the malware starts updating itself by running update.exe with the argument self-upgrade (“C:Program Files (x86)AdShieldupdater.exe” -self-upgrade). Distributed under the name adshield[.]pro,

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How to Prevent DNS Attacks: DNS Security Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Domain name service (DNS) attacks threaten every internet connection because they can deny, intercept, and hijack connections. With the internet playing an increasing role in business, securing DNS plays a critical role in both operations and security. Everything You Need to Know.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 364 by Pierluigi Paganini

Security Affairs

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Why We Still Haven’t Learned From the Target Data Breach a Decade Later

Security Boulevard

Most of these steps could’ve been blocked with the aid of DNS protection. More importantly, businesses need to understand how the event could (and should) have been protected against to be able to avoid the same fate. There are still many opportunities to thwart an attack at the DNS level.