Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2019

The campaign uncovered by Avast aimed at silently modifying the Brazilian users’ Domain Name System (DNS) settings to redirect victims to malicious websites mimicking legitimate ones. Crooks targeted users of many major organizations, including Netflix and large banks like Santander, Bradesco, and Banco do Brasil. concludes Avast.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Once they’re in, they can grab your emails, usernames, passwords, and more. They might even lock you out of your own accounts by resetting your passwords. While they can’t directly read your password, they can still download malware or gather enough information to steal your identity.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Attackers have already hijacked over 100,000 home routers, the malicious code allows to modify DNS settings to hijack the traffic and redirect users to phishing websites. GhostDNS reminds us of the infamous DNSChanger malware that made the headlines for its ability to change DNS settings on the infected device.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

For years leading up to 2015, “ admin@manipulaters.com ” was the name on the registration records for thousands of scam domains that spoofed some of the world’s top banks and brand names, but particularly Apple and Microsoft. ” and a Gmail account beginning with “bluebtc.” ” Image: Scylla Intel.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2022

TrickBot is a popular Windows banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features, including powerful password-stealing capabilities. The news wave of attacks aimed at cryptocurrency firms, most of them located in the U.S. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2024

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Identity IQ

MARCH 9, 2023

The hacker is following the victim’s keystrokes every step of the way, including taking note of any usernames, passwords and financial information the victim is typing. Connecting to a fake hotspot may unknowingly give criminals access to your personal information, including passwords, bank account information, and other sensitive data.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

“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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The Novidade exploit kit leverages cross-site request forgery (CSRF) to change the Domain Name System (DNS) settings of SOHO routers and redirect traffic from the connected devices to the IP address under the control of the attackers. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. ” continues the analysis.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

QakBot, also known as QBot, QuackBot and Pinkslipbot, is a banking Trojan that has existed for over a decade. In recent years, QakBot has become one of the leading banking Trojans around the globe. Its main purpose is to steal banking credentials (e.g., logins, passwords, etc.), QakBot infection chain. an invoice).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2022

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

million from German bank OLB cloning EMV cards. Some Zyxel devices can be hacked via DNS requests. Over 600k GPS trackers left exposed online with a default password of ‘123456. US cyberattack temporarily paralyzed the ability of Iran to target oil tankers in the Gulf. Crooks stole €1.5

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1962 — Allan Scherr — MIT sets up the first computer passwords, for student privacy and time limits. Student Allan Scherr makes a punch card to trick the computer into printing off all passwords and uses them to log in as other people after his time runs out. She connects him to any phone number he requests for free.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 19, 2023

From here, the driver would be convinced to hand over banking details or log in to a fake portal. Variations on this scam included calls from “DoorDash security” which eventually resulted in banking details being handed over. Use a password manager. How to avoid phishing Block known bad websites.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2019

People fell prey for these manipulative emails and provide confidential details like passwords and bank information in their negligence. These emails appear to be coming from some authentic source like from your bank or some legit business organization. Use Two Factor Authentication.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2022

From online shopping to banking, transferring funds, and sending invoices, online transactions ensure utter convenience and efficiency. Many people still don’t realize the dangers of phishing, malware, ransomware, unpatched software, and weak passwords. HTTPS and DNS), data link (e.g.,

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SecureList

JUNE 3, 2024

Cracked applications are one of the easiest ways for attackers to get malware onto people’s computers: to elevate their privileges, they only need to ask for the password, which usually arouses no suspicion during software installation. Read our analysis here. After all these steps, the Coyote Trojan is executed.

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Banking Malware Computers and Electronics Mobile 117

Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2019

DNS hijacking campaigns target Gmail, Netflix, and PayPal users. SI-LAB] EMOTET spread in Chile impacted hundreds of users and targeted financial and banking services. WPA3 attacks allow hackers to hack Wi-Fi password. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2019

Analyzing OilRigs malware that uses DNS Tunneling. Facebook admitted to have stored millions of Instagram users passwords in plaintext. Marcus Hutchins pleads guilty to two counts of banking malware creation. European Commission is not in possession of evidence of issues with Kaspersky products.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2018

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. Banking website without js injection. Web-Inject.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. A review of passive DNS records from DomainTools indicates that in 2013 pictrace[.]com I advise anyone who is using an old NR [Near Reality] password for anything remotely important should change it ASAP.”

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SecureList

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Trickbot (aka TrickLoader or Trickster), is a successor of the Dyre banking Trojan that was active from 2014 to 2016 and performed man-in-the-browser attacks in order to steal banking credentials. Just like Dyre, its main functionality was initially the theft of online banking data. This module is a password stealer module.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

We have seen targeted attacks exploiting the vulnerability to target companies in research and development, the energy sector and other major industries, banking, the medical technology sector, as well as telecoms and IT. Qakbot banking Trojan. It is now one of the leading banking Trojans around the globe. Gamers beware.

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SecureList

JUNE 7, 2023

They also created numerous fake domains that look like venture capital and bank domains: most of these imitate Japanese venture capital companies, indicating that the group has an extensive interest in Japanese financial entities. Our analysis revealed more than 70 domains used by this group, meaning that they were very active until recently.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 15, 2022

Symbiote also offers threat actors a backdoor to the infected Linux machine, to which they can log in as a user with the highest privilege using a hardcoded password. The data is hex encoded and chunked up to be exfiltrated via DNS address record requests to a domain name controlled by the threat actor.” link and ns2[.]cintepol[.]link

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Once accessed, the threat actor usually employs commodity.NET Remote Access Trojans (RATs), like AsyncRAT, RemcosRAT, and more, to steal credentials from various banking service providers. The password necessary to open the archive is provided within the email body. gov.co" top-level domain.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2018

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Free Kaspersky Password Manager Premium. Bank-grade encryption to help keep information like passwords and personal details secure. Password management that stores and manages passwords, credit card information and other credentials. DNS filtering. Protection against hackers, viruses and malware.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2022

The targeted entities are law firms, banks, and strategic consultancies. Researchers from threat intelligence firm RiskIQ, using passive DNS data related to Knotweed attacks, linked the C2 infrastructure used by the malware since February 2020 to DSIRF.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 15, 2023

We can't touch DNS. And that pattern extends all the way down to much more localised brands too; My bank. We don't have any of those 4 aliases on our domain. We can't add a meta tag. We can't upload a file. It leaves me prone to asking "well do you really have control of the domain?" That's awesome!

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

To compromise devices, the initial version of MIRAI relied exclusively on a fixed set of 64 well-known default login/password combinations commonly used by IoT devices. MIRAI was able to infect over 600,000 IoT devices by simply exploiting a set of 64 well-known default IoT login/password combinations. C2 domain from DNS expansion.

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IoT DDOS Internet Internet 107

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

Other significant Xplico features include multithreading, SQLite or MySQL integration, no data entry limits, and can execute reserve DNS lookup from DNS pack. For the time being, increasing regulation and scrutiny of sensitive data make banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) the fastest-growing segment of the DFS market.

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Software Computers and Electronics Marketing Mobile 139

Security Boulevard

APRIL 19, 2023

They have the ability to add valuable functionality to your browser (password managers, ad-blocking, automatic translations, etc.), But make no mistake, hackers would be just as happy to access your bank account and credit card details as well. Few would argue that browser extensions aren't useful.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 19, 2022

Once a victim’s credentials are inputted, little can be done, as these are pretty much sent directly to the criminal, who then has access to the identity and bank information of the victim. Further, often criminals will attempt to gain your credentials by asking you to insert a username and password to access a document.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

I can't blame this on the teddy bears themselves, rather the fact that the MongoDB holding all the collected data was left publicly facing without a password. For some reason, the Shelly on my garage door is making a DNS request for api.shelly.cloud once every second! The good guys had it, the bad guys didn't.

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BH Consulting

JULY 17, 2024

The cloud storage company suffered one of the world’s biggest breaches that compromised at least 165 high-profile clients including Ticketmaster and Santander Bank. He added that IT professionals relying on strong passwords or the ability to spot phishing isn’t enough. MORE The US CISA agency has a guide to implementing DNS protocols.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Upon startup, this backdoor makes a type A DNS request for the <hex-encoded 20-byte string> u.fdmpkg[.]org After parsing the response to the DNS request, the backdoor launches a reverse shell, using the secondary C2 server for communications. A cryptor, a stealer and a banking Trojan We monitor many underground forums.

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