Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Germany-based independent security evaluators AV-TEST found that HYAS Protect Protective DNS is the most effective operational resiliency solution on the market today to drive business continuity and continued operations. To effectively combat the inevitable, businesses need a paradigmatic shift in how cyberthreats are viewed and treated.

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DNS Architecture Marketing Cyber threats 69

eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

50,000 DDoS attacks on public domain name service (DNS) resolvers. 553% increase in DNS Flood attacks from 1H 2020 to 2H 2023. DDoS attacks on single networks or websites render them unavailable, but DDoS attacks on DNS resolvers bring down all networks and websites using that DNS resource.

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Cybersecurity DDOS Penetration Testing Ransomware 122

CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 12, 2021

Examples of such third parties include intelligence gathering run by foreign governments, competitors attempting to undermine your operations. These are collaborators who use their insider status to capture secret data and affect the performance of the organization they stay within. They do it as an agent of the third part? they work for.

Accountability 144

Accountability Scams Risk Software 144

SecureWorld News

MARCH 29, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published an advisory encouraging all government agencies to leverage ad blocking solutions in their day-to-day work. A DNS firewall and a classic antivirus are somewhat underused yet effective security tools that will come in handy. Consider using an ad blocking extension.

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Cybercrime Advertising Engineering Antivirus 104

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Server: Provides powerful computing and storage in local, cloud, and data center networks to run services (Active Directory, DNS, email, databases, apps). Domain name system (DNS) security: Protects the DNS service from attempts to corrupt DNS information used to access websites or to intercept DNS requests.

Architecture 121

Architecture Network Security Firewall Risk 121

Webroot

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

To sleep at night, MSPs feel they must enhance or expand their security offerings beyond the standard layers, like; firewalls, firewall filtering, active directory protocols, DNS Filtering and antivirus/malware detection. Many providers have requirements from governance to tools that meet a specific scope.

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Insurance Firewall Cybersecurity DNS 107

SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Targets include high-profile organizations: namely, government entities located both within those countries and abroad. We found multiple archives like this with file names of government entities linked to Myanmar. Most of the early sightings were in Myanmar, but it seems the threat actor is now much more active in the Philippines.

Malware 135

Malware Banking Energy and Utilities Accountability 135

SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

This resulted in the deployment of a custom backdoor, named Sunburst, on the networks of more than 18,000 SolarWinds customers, including many large corporations and government bodies, in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. One of those Fobushell samples was identical to another we previously identified on a Zebrocy C2 server.

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Malware Government Spyware Social Engineering 145

SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The targets included government, military, critical infrastructure and IT organizations in Ukraine, Romania, Poland, Jordan, Turkey, Italy and Slovakia. Upon startup, this backdoor makes a type A DNS request for the <hex-encoded 20-byte string> u.fdmpkg[.]org org domain.

Malware 139

Malware Ransomware Encryption Energy and Utilities 139

SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

This resulted in the deployment of a custom backdoor, named Sunburst, on the networks of more than 18,000 SolarWinds customers, including many large corporations and government bodies, in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. It then downloads and installs the miner.

Malware 140

Malware Adware Encryption Architecture 140

SecureList

DECEMBER 23, 2020

This resulted in the deployment of a custom Sunburst backdoor on the networks of more than 18,000 SolarWinds customers, with many large corporations and government entities among the victims. Several publicly available data sets, such as the one from John Bambenek, include DNS requests encoding the victim names.

Malware 81

Malware Telecommunications DNS Government 81

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

While SurfShark is headquartered in the Netherlands, a Nine Eyes member (potentially required to pass personal data to the government), it has a strict no-logging privacy policy for customers. DNS leak protection: ExpressVPN has secure DNS servers that your device uses when ExpressVPN is enabled. per month when billed annually.

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VPN Password Management Encryption Internet 58

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

This article will explore the nature of MSSPs and how they can help businesses, nonprofits, governments, and other organizations have better security with less effort. Managed endpoint security installs, configures, and maintains endpoint protection tools ( antivirus , endpoint detection and response (EDR), etc.)

Firewall 98

Firewall Telecommunications Penetration Testing Cybersecurity 98

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.

Cryptocurrency 52

Cryptocurrency Password Management Malware DNS 52

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.

Accountability 139

Accountability Cybersecurity Penetration Testing InfoSec 139

SecureList

APRIL 24, 2023

Introduction We introduced Tomiris to the world in September 2021, following our investigation of a DNS-hijack against a government organization in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The threat actor targets government and diplomatic entities in the CIS.

Malware 135

Malware DNS Government Software 135

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. Government agencies and law enforcement often use spyware to investigate domestic suspects or international threat actors. How to Defend Against Adware. RAM Scraper.

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Malware Adware Spyware Antivirus 105

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. Be cautious with emails and downloads.

Cryptocurrency 102

Cryptocurrency Passwords Social Engineering Malware 102

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The data at issue refers to communications traversing the Domain Name System (DNS), a global database that maps computer-friendly coordinates like Internet addresses (e.g., DNS lookups from Alfa Bank constituted the majority of those requests. DNS lookups from Alfa Bank constituted the majority of those requests.

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