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Why Small and Medium Sized Businesses Need More Than Just an AntiVirus Solution

Security Boulevard

Basic solutions like antivirus deployments are certainly still important, but they are reactionary measures. Thankfully, nearly all malware depends on DNS at some point in their kill chain, making the protocol a critical vector for shutting down these threats. In this new environment, the bare minimum is no longer good enough.

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Spear Phishing Prevention: 10 Ways to Protect Your Organization

eSecurity Planet

Spear phishing is a more targeted and effective phishing technique that attempts to exploit specific individuals or groups within an organization. While phishing uses a broader range of tactics, such as mass emailing to random recipients, spear phishing is often well-researched and tailored to high-value targets.

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Key Insights from the OpenText 2024 Threat Perspective

Webroot

Keep all devices updated with the latest security patches, and use reputable antivirus solutions that can block suspicious downloads and identify malicious software. What was once a clear distinction between mass phishing emails and more targeted spear-phishing attempts is now blurring, making it harder to distinguish between the two.

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BrightCloud® Threat Report Mid-Year Update: Reinvention is the Name of the Game

Webroot

With insight into the latest threats and trends, we are arming organizations with the knowledge they need to pivot and stay ahead of cyber criminals’ around-the-clock reinvention of malware, phishing, and brand impersonations. In fact, there are 31% fewer infections when endpoint and DNS protection are combined.

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Defeating Malvertising-Based Phishing Attacks

Security Boulevard

Malvertising Enters a New Age While Google grapples with the potential threat that ChatGPT poses to its advertising business, cybercriminals are taking advantage of Google Ads to ramp up their phishing attacks on unsuspecting victims. Next-gen protective DNS. This practice is commonly known as “malvertising.”

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GO#WEBBFUSCATOR campaign hides malware in NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope image

Security Affairs

The phishing emails contain a Microsoft Office attachment that includes an external reference in its metadata which downloads a malicious template file. “This technique works by sending an encrypted string appended to the DNS query set as a subdomain. We have observed similar behavior with DNS exfiltration tools such as DNSCAT2.”

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HYAS Threat Intel Report May 20 2024

Security Boulevard

This discovery, coupled with historical passive DNS data linking the IP to a domain infamous from previous DNS tunneling campaigns suggests a significant and ongoing threat. Historical passive DNS data from 2023 links this IP to a claudfront.net domain, known for its involvement in DNS tunneling campaigns.

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