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Cuttlefish malware targets enterprise-grade SOHO routers

Security Affairs

The malicious code can also perform DNS and HTTP hijacking within private IP spaces. “What makes this malware family so insidious is the ability to perform HTTP and DNS hijacking for connections to private IP addresses. The binary analyzed by the researchers is compiled for all major architectures used by SOHO operating systems.

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A Reactive Cybersecurity Strategy Is No Strategy at All

CyberSecurity Insiders

By increasing visibility into DNS traffic, CISOs can detect, block, and respond to incidents more quickly as well as use this data to institute new controls and increase overall resiliency. However, this reconnaissance or dwell period also presents an opportunity to stop the malware before it has activated.

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Black Hat USA 2021 Network Operations Center

Cisco Security

For several years, Cisco Secure provided DNS visibility and architecture intelligence with Cisco Umbrella and Cisco Umbrella Investigate ; and automated malware analysis and threat intelligence with Cisco Secure Malware Analytics (Threat Grid) , backed by Cisco Talos Intelligence and Cisco SecureX. DNS traffic at Record Low.

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Security Innovator of the Year | Jeremy Brown, Trinity Cyber

SC Magazine

Jeremy Brown helped Trinity Cyber develop counter maneuvers for a DNS exploit requiring deep parsing of a certain kind of traffic, deploying it to all clients in less than two days. They developed a powerful new approach to intrusion prevention system as-a-service, delivered through a service edge architecture and patent-pending technology.

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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. Apply Endpoint Intelligence to DNS Security Automatically. For more information on SecureX: [link].

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Open Source Security: A Big Problem

eSecurity Planet

Robinsons also discussed OpenSSF’s reference architecture – see graphic below. In a presentation titled “ The unbelievable insecurity of the big data stack ,” Sheila Berta of Dreamlab Technologies discussed weaknesses in Apache Hadoop tools like the Zookeeper management layer and Ambari cluster management.

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Growing Ransomware Dangers Demand 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. Apply Endpoint Intelligence to DNS Security Automatically. For more information on SecureX: [link].