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Malvertising Is a Cybercrime Heavyweight, Not an Underdog

SecureWorld News

A DNS firewall and a classic antivirus are somewhat underused yet effective security tools that will come in handy. A mix of social engineering, hacking, and abuse of legitimate services makes this style of online crime incredibly effective. The silver lining is that such scams are fairly easy to avoid.

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Bizarro banking Trojan expands its attacks to Europe

SecureList

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.

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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. of cases in 2020. Blocking the URL domain and IP.

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How to Stop Phishing Attacks with Protective DNS

Security Boulevard

This blog examines the escalating phishing landscape, shortcomings of common anti-phishing approaches, and why implementing a Protective DNS service as part of a layered defense provides the most effective solution. This is where Protective DNS comes in.

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Calling Home, Get Your Callbacks Through RBI

Security Boulevard

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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Spear Phishing Prevention: 10 Ways to Protect Your Organization

eSecurity Planet

This method involves using emails, social media, instant messaging, and other platforms to manipulate users into revealing personal information or performing actions that can lead to network compromise, data loss, or financial harm. social engineering tactics and strange sender behaviors), they also use artificial intelligence algorithms.

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The return of the AdvisorsBot malware

Security Affairs

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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