Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2022

Russia-linked APT29 targets diplomatic and government organizations Synology and QNAP warn of critical Netatalk flaws in some of their products Hackers stole +80M from DeFi platforms Rari Capital and Fei Protocol Apr 24 – Apr 30 Ukraine – Russia the silent cyber conflict.

IoT 82

IoT DNS Antivirus DDOS 82

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.

Cybercrime 85

Cybercrime Advertising Engineering Antivirus 85

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 117

Architecture Network Security Firewall Risk 117

Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2019

Singapore Government will run its third bug bounty program. Firefox finally addressed the Antivirus software TLS Errors. Godlua backdoor, the first malware that abuses the DNS over HTTPS (DoH). ViceLeaker Android spyware targets users in the Middle East. A cyberattack took offline websites of the Georgia agency.

Scams 47

Scams Spyware DNS Advertising 47

Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2019

Analyzing OilRigs malware that uses DNS Tunneling. Avast, Avira, Sophos and other antivirus solutions show problems after. Hacker broke into super secure French Governments Messaging App Tchap hours after release. European Commission is not in possession of evidence of issues with Kaspersky products.

Computers and Electronics 60

Computers and Electronics Spyware Data breaches Advertising 60

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 96

Malware DNS Government Software 96

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

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

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.

Malware 104

Malware Adware Spyware Antivirus 104

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.

Insurance 69

Insurance Firewall Cybersecurity DNS 69

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 98

Malware Ransomware Encryption Energy and Utilities 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

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 61

Malware Telecommunications DNS Government 61

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.)

Telecommunications 98

Telecommunications Firewall Penetration Testing Cybersecurity 98

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 92

Malware Banking Energy and Utilities Accountability 92

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.

Malware 142

Malware Spyware Government Social Engineering 142

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 101

Malware Adware Encryption Architecture 101