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Report: Recent 10x Increase in Cyberattacks on Ukraine

Krebs on Security

John Todd is general manager of Quad9 , a free “anycast” DNS platform. DNS stands for Domain Name System, which is like a globally distributed phone book for the Internet that maps human-friendly website names (example.com) to numeric Internet addresses (8.8.4.4.) that are easier for computers to manage.

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Krebs on Security

“Using the internal router, it would be possible to poison the DNS cache of the LAN router of the infected node, enabling further attacks.” ” The service charged 20 percent of all “scam wires,” unauthorized wire transfers resulting from bank account takeovers or scams like CEO impersonation schemes.

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IoT Unravelled Part 3: Security

Troy Hunt

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. For some reason, the Shelly on my garage door is making a DNS request for api.shelly.cloud once every second!

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SOC 2025: Operationalizing the SOC

Security Boulevard

Maybe it’s DNS reputation on a suspicious IP address or an adversary profile based on the command and control traffic. We fully expect most organizations to adopt a more flexible data collection and aggregation approach and introduce more sophisticated analytics in this timeframe.

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Indictment, Lawsuits Revive Trump-Alfa Bank Story

Krebs on Security

In October 2016, media outlets reported that data collected by some of the world’s most renowned cybersecurity experts had identified frequent and unexplained communications between an email server used by the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank , one of Russia’s largest financial institutions. trump-email.com).

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