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NSA, CISA issue guidance on Protective DNS services

SC Magazine

A PDNS service uses existing DNS protocols and architecture to analyze DNS queries and mitigate threats. Over a six-month period, the PDNS service examined more than 4 billion DNS queries to and from the participating networks, blocking millions of connections to identified malicious domains.

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AI-Powered Phishing: Defending Against New Browser-Based Attacks

SecureWorld News

Additionally, these conventional tools lack the contextual awareness needed to identify sophisticated social engineering tactics employed by AI-powered phishing campaigns. Zero Trust Architecture: Adopt a Zero Trust approach that verifies every access request, regardless of its origin.

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A Reactive Cybersecurity Strategy Is No Strategy at All

CyberSecurity Insiders

Not long ago, it was revealed that T-Mobile had been breached by bad actors who convinced employees to switch their SIM cards to let them bypass two-factor identification — reminding us how effective social engineering can still be. So why aren’t more organizations taking advantage of protective DNS?

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Growing Ransomware Danger Demands Layered Defense of Your Endpoints

Cisco Security

In particular, Cisco Umbrella and Cisco Secure Endpoint form the first and last lines of defense for your security architecture. Within Cisco Umbrella, we can look at the different events that it logs while monitoring DNS traffic. Watch one of our Technical Marketing Engineers talk through the demo scenario live.

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When Good Tools Go Bad: Dual-Use in Cybersecurity

Security Boulevard

Social Engineering Tactics: These tactics exploit human psychology to manipulate individuals. Reverse Engineering: This technique analyzes software to understand its design and functionality. Attackers use phishing, pretexting, and baiting to gain access or information.

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New Advanced AlienApps for Akamai ETP and Akamai EAA help streamline threat management

CyberSecurity Insiders

The ETP app is capable of grabbing a range of ETP events—including threat, AUP (Acceptable User Policy), DNS activity, network traffic, and proxy traffic events—and feeding them into the robust USM Anywhere correlation engine for threat detection and enrichment. Voice of the vendor.

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Discovery of Simps Botnet Leads To Ties to Keksec Group

Security Affairs

The script downloaded several next stage payloads for several *nix architectures from the open directory named “Simps” in the same C2 URL from where the shell script was downloaded (see Figure 1). The code similarity of the Valve source Engine module used by Simps was similar to Gafgyt. 200 in simps directory to tmp. see Figure 13).

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