SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Attack vectors There are two main IoT infection routes: brute-forcing weak passwords and exploiting vulnerabilities in network services. A successful password cracking enables hackers to execute arbitrary commands on a device and inject malware. Unfortunately, users tend to leave these passwords unchanged.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Jon Paterson, CTO at Zimperium: "As technology continues to improve, and cryptography evolves, it is important that organizations not just consider the specific cryptographic standard in use, both in a pre- and post-quantum world, but also the larger security architecture of their crypto key management.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This architectural approach is a hallmark of APT malware. This information includes website login usernames and passwords, as well as personal autofill data such as name, address, phone number, company, and job title. During these scans, it collects a range of sensitive information from all active users.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The IoT malware ran only on systems with an x86 architecture. The most important novelty is represented by the discovery of a variety of bot versions, designed to target different architectures, including 32-bit and 64-bit ARM, x86, x86_64, MIPS, MIPSEL, and PowerPC.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2019

malware was used by threat actors to establish a backdoor in MSSQL Server 11 and 12 servers, allowing them to access to any account on the server using a “magic password.” The PortReuse backdoor has a modular architecture, experts discovered that its components are separate processes that communicate through named pipes.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

Implement reference architectures based on the security patterns. Network security: Includes Direct Connect (DC) private and public interfaces; DMZ, VPC, and VNet endpoints; transit gateways; load balancers; and DNS. Design core cloud security patterns that comply with the policy and standards.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

The certification covers active defense, defense in depth, access control, cryptography, defensible network architecture and network security, incident handling and response, vulnerability scanning and penetration testing, security policy, IT risk management, virtualization and cloud security , and Windows and Linux security.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

Hundreds of millions of user passwords left exposed to Facebook employees: News recently broke that Facebook left the passwords of between 200 million and 600 million users unencrypted and available to the company’s 20,000 employees going back as far as 2012.

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Kali Linux

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

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 A shortcut to generating one is to simply run wpa_passphrase SSID PASSWORD where SSID is the name of the wireless network, and PASSWORD is the passphrase (aka PSK) for the network.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2018

exe process according to the architecture of the compromised host. Every DNS call from victim computer to internet, matching with the list of banking sites hard-coded in the malware, will be modified; the malware adds in the original page a piece of javascript to steal sensible information such as username, password and session cookie.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 13, 2024

It’s also why HYAS clients depend upon our protective DNS solution, HYAS Protect , as a trusted and necessary component of their security stack. HYAS Protect now supports “split-horizon DNS” for handling DNS requests differently depending upon whether the employee is on-network or off. Not if we can help it!

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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. Minimum User Access Controls Active Directory: The smallest organizations might only worry about device access, otherwise known as the login credentials (username/password).

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Cisco Umbrella : DNS visibility and security. As a NOC team comprised of many technologies and companies, we are pleased that this Black Hat NOC was the most integrated to date, to provide an overall SOC cybersecurity architecture solution. This reduces the confusion of managing multiple accounts and passwords.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 14, 2022

The combination of Prolexic, Edge DNS, and App & API Protector would be recommended for the highest quality of DDoS mitigation to keep applications, data centers, and internet-facing infrastructure (public or private) protected. It is architected for nonstop DNS availability and high performance, even across the largest DDoS attacks.

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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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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

In this simple environment network security followed a simple protocol: Authenticate the user : using a computer login (username + password) Check the user’s permissions: using Active Directory or a similar Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Enable communication with authorized network resources (servers, printers, etc.)

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2023

Prior to this date, in 2021, the domain was registered and hosted by a previous owner, with DNS resolution observed through October of 2021. After the new DNS registration by the Grand persona, the domain was initially live via authoritative DNS in regway.com on 2023-10-08, and then migrated to Cloudflare DNS on 2023-10-11.

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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

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. . . . Therefore encryption and hashing passwords, confidential data, and connection strings are of the utmost importance. . Out-of-band. Encryption: Keep Your Secrets Secret.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 10, 2023

Effectively protecting complex networks against sophisticated phishing attacks involves a comprehensive security stack including multi-factor authentication (MFA) , single sign-on (SSO) , and domain name system (DNS) security. Domain name system security (DNS) is another layer of protection that stops users from ever opening fraudulent links.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 28, 2022

Imagine a shift away from logging into a “network” to having security seamlessly built into the network, and multi-factor authentication and authorization continuously performed at the application level on the fly — without users typing passwords. What’s Next?

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

XDR (eXtended Detection and Response) Integrations At Black Hat USA 2023, Cisco Secure was the official Mobile Device Management, DNS (Domain Name Service) and Malware Analysis Provider. SCA detected 289 alerts including Suspected Port Abuse, Internal Port Scanner, New Unusual DNS Resolver,and Protocol Violation (Geographic).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2019

For this reason, we decided to dig into this piece of malware and figure out its inner secrets, uncovering a modular architecture with advanced offensive capabilities, such as the presence of functionalities able to deal with multi-factor authentication (MFA). The “Dns” Plugin. The DnsPlugin handles the machine’s DNS configuration.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2022

This new integration supports Umbrella proxy, cloud firewall, IP, and DNS logs. They include various items like DKIM key inspections, DNS Resource Records and more. Because of Bitglass’ agentless architecture, the joint solution can secure any app, any device, anywhere. Read more here. Farsight Security. Read more here.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Threat actors can decrypt these files and dump the usernames, password hashes, computer names, groups, and other data. Web sessions and user passwords saved in the browser are available in hVNC sessions. This module is a password stealer module. dat” q q. reg save HKLMSAM %TEMP%<random>1.dat aexecDll32. tdpwgrab32.

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Cisco Security

MAY 27, 2022

In addition to the Meraki networking gear, Cisco Secure also shipped two Umbrella DNS virtual appliances to Black Hat Asia, for internal network visibility with redundancy, in addition to providing: . Now, logging into Meraki only requires an email address and no password or additional DUO push.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches. 583% increase in Kerberoasting [password hash cracking] attacks. 64% of managers and higher admit to poor password practices.

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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

MAY 31, 2021

Once the victim has started the program, it changes the DNS settings on the device so that all domains are resolved through the attackers’ servers: this prevents the victim from accessing certain antivirus sites. The sample extracts a URL from the “downloadURL” field for the next download.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

While we were unable to obtain the same results by analyzing the CERT-UA samples, we subsequently identified a different WhiteBlackCrypt sample matching the WhisperKill architecture and sharing similar code. On February 23, ESET published a tweet announcing new wiper malware targeting Ukraine.

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Fox IT

JUNE 23, 2020

They also display attention to detail by, for example, ensuring that they obtain the passwords to disable security tools on a network prior to deploying the ransomware. However, a bug is included in the architecture identification code. The ransomware authors use a well-known method to identify the operating system architecture.

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Cisco Security

MAY 24, 2021

Enforce security at the DNS layer. Cisco Umbrella analyses DNS queries to block requests to malicious domains, suspicious files or direct IP connections from command-and-control callbacks. Cybercriminal groups such as DarkSide rely on weak passwords to gain access to an organization’s network and critical systems.

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