SC Magazine

MAY 19, 2021

And with more people working remotely during the pandemic, there’s been a push to the cloud, which has forced them to rethink their basic networking and security architectures. That could be by purging un-needed data, encryption, archiving, anonymizing data, basically doing something different,” Halota said.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This sketch by Joanna Rutkowska, one of the founding scientists, is a visualization of the groundbreaking data management architecture Wildland proposes. Users can create bridges and share part of their file systems with others without relying on any centralized databases or lookup systems like DNS, for example.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2019

The story is well documented going back in the past years when one project of MalwareMustDie team was very active to monitor the China origin ELF DDoS’er malware threat. They are not aiming servers with x32 or x64 architecture but the router devices that runs on Linux too.” But what kind of malware is this Elknot Trojan?

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

For example, the 2016 DDoS attack on the Dyn managed domain name service (DNS) caused the DNS service to fail to respond to legitimate DNS inquiries and effectively shut down major sites such as PayPal, Spotify, Twitter, Yelp, and many others. Also read: How to Secure DNS. Types of DDoS Attacks. Harden infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2018

N051118 ), where the malicious payload was dropped abusing a macro-enabled word document able to download the malicious DLL paylaod. The malware tries to connect to the remote host 149.154.157.104 (EDIS-IT IT) through an encrypted SSL channel, then it downloads other components and deletes itself from the filesystem.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 29, 2022

25+ Years of Black Hat (and some DNS stats), by Alejo Calaoagan. Cisco is a Premium Partner of the Black Hat NOC , and is the Official Wired & Wireless Network Equipment, Mobile Device Management, DNS (Domain Name Service) and Malware Analysis Provider of Black Hat. Umbrella DNS into NetWitness SIEM and Palo Alto Firewall .

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Policies typically will be written documents that detail the requirements that will be enforced, such as password complexity. Similarly, spoofed domain name system (DNS) and IP addresses can redirect users from legitimate connections to dangerous and malicious websites. Critical resources need additional protection.

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Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Cisco Secure supports the NOC operations with DNS visibility and architecture intelligence ( Cisco Umbrella and Cisco Umbrella Investigate ) and automated malware analysis and threat intelligence ( Cisco Secure Malware Analytics (Threat Grid) , backed by Cisco Talos Intelligence and Cisco SecureX ). The other half is Clarity for iOS.

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Kali Linux

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

In Secure Kali Pi (2022) , the first blog post in the Raspberry Pi series, we set up a Raspberry Pi 4 with full disk encryption. Re4son-v8+ Architecture: arm64 And then edit the /etc/hosts file as well, changing the line that has kali-raspberry-pi in it to be DESKTOP-UL8M7HT : 127.0.1.1 DESKTOP-UL8M7HT 127.0.0.1 192.168.42.1:255.255.255.0:securekalipi:wlan0

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 27, 2022

The Biden Administration is pushing federal agencies to adopt a zero-trust security architecture to protect themselves and their data from “increasingly sophisticated and persistent threat campaigns,” according to a new strategy issued this week by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). See the Best Zero Trust Security Solutions for 2022.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

AES-256 encryption for data at rest and TLS v1.2 Founded in 2010 by veteran SaaS and DevOps industry leaders, Datadog specializes in optimizing the service-oriented architecture, helping organizations monitor user journeys and explore service relationships. Auvik Features. Catchpoint Features. LogicMonitor.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

SD-WAN integration with the SASE controller for Meraki, Catalyst, and others Cisco Umbrella SIG unifies firewall, SWG, DNS-layer security, CASB, and threat intelligence functions into a single and well-tested cloud service.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

IOCs that could be shared are at the end of this document. The PlugX families we observed used DNS [ T1071.001 ] [ T1071.004 ] as the transport channel for C2 traffic, in particular TXT queries. We observed in the process dump the exfiltration of data on the system, such as OS, Processor (architecture), Domain, Username, etc.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 28, 2022

This, in combination with network encryption, will lay a strong foundation against phishing and other common attack vectors. Piloting a new architecture using a low-risk system is a prudent way to implement a new strategy, but it suggests the agency strategies may take some time to deploy. What’s Next?

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

Once the victim opens an infected document and agrees to enable macros, the malware is dropped onto the system and proceeds to a multi-stage deployment procedure. Ransomware encrypting virtual hard disks. Ransomware gangs are exploiting vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi to target virtual hard disks and encrypt the data stored on them.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 10, 2021

The least common of SQL injection attacks, the out-of-band method relies on the database server to make DNS or HTTP requests delivering data to an attacker. . . . Encryption: Keep Your Secrets Secret. Therefore encryption and hashing passwords, confidential data, and connection strings are of the utmost importance. .

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Fox IT

JUNE 23, 2020

The shellcode copies the encrypted payload into another buffer allocated by calling the VirtualAlloc API, and then decrypts this with an XOR based algorithm in a similar way to that described above. WastedLocker aims to encrypt the files of the infected host. This is described in more detail in the String encryption section.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 4, 2022

The Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) originally designed the ACME protocol for its own Let’s Encrypt certificate service. On September 15, 2021, the DNS records for acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org Today the protocol has become a standard ( RFC 8555 ). ACME v2 is the current version of the protocol, published in March 2018.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

To be a NOC partner, you must be willing to collaborate, share API (Automated Programming Interface) keys and documentation, and come together (even as market competitors) to secure the conference, for the good of the attendees. Next, we need to configure entity groups in SCA to correspond with internal Blackhat network.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The Clearswift solution incorporates inbound threat protection (Avira, Sophos or Kaspersky antivirus ), an optional sandbox feature, data loss prevention technology to remove threats from messages and files, a multi-layer spam defence mechanism (including SPF, DKIM, DMARC), multiple encryption options, and advanced content filtering features.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 24, 2023

GuardDuty collects data from a variety of sources, including AWS CloudTrail logs, VPC Flow Logs, DNS Logs, Amazon S3 Logs, Amazon EC2 Logs, and AWS Config. Its adaptability and support for hybrid cloud architectures make it a good choice for businesses that utilize a mix of deployment methodologies.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In this document, we decided to provide a brief description of the Trickbot modules. Downloaded modules are encrypted, and can be decrypted with the Python script below. It retrieves the DNS names of all the directory trees in the local computer’s forest. This module contains the encrypted embedded module RwDrv.sys.

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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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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 20, 2022

Overlap of Passive DNS resolution of domain observed on current attack infrastructure with the IP used by Molerats APT group in the past. For the purpose of technical analysis we will use the document with MD5: 46e03f21a95afa321b88e44e7e399ec3. [+] Stage-1: Macro code. Attack flow. Figure 1 below illustrates the new attack chain.

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