Heimadal Security

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

While achieving compliance with industry standards is the minimum, it’s not enough to prevent insider threats, supply chain attacks, DDoS, or sophisticated cyberattacks such as double-extortion ransomware, phishing, business email compromise (BEC), info-stealing malware or attacks that leverage the domain name system (DNS).

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security) protocol is used to establish secure connections over UDP, through which most DNS queries, as well as audio and video traffic, are sent. In December, Canada’s Laurentian University reported a DDoS attack. In early October, a DDoS attack was reported by the PUBG Mobile team.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 7, 2018

This is worrisome: DDoS vandals have long intensified their attacks by sending a small number of specially designed data packets to publicly available services. Cloudflare blog post. The services then unwittingly respond by sending a much larger number of unwanted packets to a target. BoingBoing post.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

For example, this account at Medium has authored more than a dozen blog posts in the past year singing the praises of Tornote as a secure, self-destructing messaging service. Throughout 2023, Tornote was hosted with the Russian provider DDoS-Guard , at the Internet address 186.2.163[.]216. io seem like a legitimate website.

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Webroot

MARCH 9, 2021

In that spirit, we put together this blog post to explain the different hacker types and methods they use against us. DNS (Domain Name System) is especially vulnerable. One of the most common methods of infiltration includes internet-based attacks, such as Denial of Service (DoS), Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) and DNS poisoning.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Cybercriminals are constantly crawling the web for targets, and they’ll often go after websites you might not expect, such as a vegan cooking blog. Joe’s Vegan Blog Cooks Up Comment Spam. Joe is the founder of a widely popular vegan food blog. Why would cybercriminals be interested in hacking a vegan food blog?

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

From industry tips and best practices to the latest Malwarebytes product releases and how-tos, our Business newsletter is chock-full of the best of our business blog. DNS filtering. The next technology you need to prevent cyberattacks is a DNS filter. But first, a little bit about what DNS (domain name system) is.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2022

Please vote for Security Affairs as the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS Vote for me in the sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog” and others of your choice. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2022

A container image with a DDoS attack tool over TCP protocol through multiple connection requests, which targets multiple service providers in Russia. Both container images also included attack tools that initiate a DNS flood aimed at against Russian banks. Tale of 3 Clouds eBook: How Venafi Creates Digital Transformation. ".

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

distributed Denial of service attacks (DDoS). Mirai represents a turning point for DDoS attacks: IoT botnets are the new norm. This blog post recounts Mirai’s tale from start to finish. OVH DDoS attack. At that time, It was propelled in the spotlight when it was used to carry massive DDoS attacks against.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 19, 2021

Source: Microsoft Security Blog) The EU published the SOCTA 2021 report providing a detailed analysis of the threat of serious and organised crime facing the EU. Source: BleepingComputer) Threat analysts have been tracking activity where contact forms published on websites are abused to deliver malicious links to IcedID malware.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

The tools are being shared online on popular hacking forums and blogs, they are infected with a version of the njRAT RAT that is used by attackers to establish a backdoor on the victims’ systems and take full control of them. Others appear to be the infrastructure owned by the threat group, judging by multiple hostnames , DNS data, etc.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 16, 2021

According to a Netlab blog on December 13, 2021, Netlab identified 10 different implants using the vulnerability to spread: Muhstik, DDoS+backdoor. DDoS family Elknot. rmi|dns):/[^n]+' /var/log. We can observe the growth of JNDI related scans cross the internet: Figure 1. JNDI related scans across honeypots.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2019

The popular expert unixfreaxjp analyzed a new China ELF DDoS’er malware tracked as “Linux/DDoSMan” that evolves from the Elknot malware to deliver new ELF bot. The code seems inspired from multiple source code of China basis DDoS client, like Elknot. On the MMD blog. Non-Technical-Premise.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2019

” reads a blog post published by the firm. Necurs is the multitool of botnets, evolving from operating as a spam botnet delivering banking trojans and ransomware to developing a proxy service, as well as cryptomining and DDoS capabilities,” explained Mike Benjamin, head of Black Lotus Labs. ” continues the blog post.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2022

A dig into the Domain Name Server (DNS) records for Coinbase-x2[.]net Cryptohost says its service is backstopped by DDoS-Guard , a Russian company that has featured here recently for providing services to the sanctioned terrorist group Hamas and to the conspiracy theory groups QAnon/8chan. We don’t keep your logs!,”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 6, 2023

This is the first of a series of consultant-written blogs around PCI DSS. GoDaddy, Network Solutions) DNS service (E.g., GoDaddy, Network Solutions) DNS service (E.g., Many organizations have multiple IAM schemes that they forget about when it comes to a robust compliance framework such as PCI DSS.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Kevin Holvoet of the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB) said Russian-sponsored attacks in recent months against Ukraine and other targets have included: DDoS attacks on government, military, finance and communications. “Many logs age like milk,” he said, adding, “looking at you DNS logs.”

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

These types of vulnerabilities are frequently used to launch other attacks, such as DDoS and cross-site scripting attacks. A CSRF attack was recently used to seize all control of a Brazilian bank’s DNS settings for over five hours. Check back with the SiteLock blog each week for more website security tips and information.

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Cisco Security

MAY 12, 2022

Threat actors picking sides [1], group members turning against each other [2], some people handing out DDoS tools [3], some people blending in to turn it into profit [4], and many other stories, proving that this new frontier is changing daily, and its direct impact is not limited to geographical boundaries. Threat Actor. Originating From.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

The group uses various malware families, including Wroba, and attack methods that include phishing, mining, smishing and DNS poisoning. Subsequently, DDoS attacks hit some government websites. Since 2018, we have been tracking Roaming Mantis – a threat actor that targets Android devices.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

Criminals have used common attack vectors in the past, such as website defacements and denial-of-service distributed attacks (DDoS). To carried out this attack, crooks modified the DNS record of a popular web accessibility plugin from nagich[.]com. This attack has the goal of infecting Windows users with the JCry ransomware.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

Subsequently, DDoS attacks hit several government websites. In July 2021, we reported the previously unknown Tomiris Golang backdoor , deployed against government organizations within a CIS country through DNS hijacking. We exposed similarities between DarkHalo’s SunShuttle backdoor and the Tomiris implant.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

Criminals have used common attack vectors in the past, such as website defacements and denial-of-service distributed attacks (DDoS). To carried out this attack, crooks modified the DNS record of a popular web accessibility plugin from nagich[.]com. This attack has the goal of infecting Windows users with the JCry ransomware.

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