Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2019

this blog) will follow as soon as possible. On Friday, the attacker used the Cloudflare API key to change the DNS records for matrix.org and redirect users to a GitHub page displaying a portion of the compromised data as a proof of the hack. GitHub has currently removed the information leaked by the hacker. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

As this service has grown, it's become an endless source of material from which I've drawn upon for conference talks, training and indeed many of my blog posts. I've regularly quoted the NCSC in particular, for example there's a bunch of their work in my recent blog post about authentication guidance for the modern era.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

In this blog, we expose some of the activities from a scammer who started off with classic advance-fee schemes and is now successfully running Agent Tesla campaigns. Those emails should have been deleted for obvious reasons but this threat actor did not and leaked his own IP address allowing us to locate them in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Lenny Zeltser

JULY 6, 2017

To understand why its creators believe Algo is a better alternative to commercial VPNs, the Streisand VPN bundle and OpenVPN, read the blog post that announced Algo’s initial release. Similarly, your DNS traffic should be getting directed through the VPN tunnel, concealing your client’s locally-configured DNS server.

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Cisco Security

MAY 12, 2022

Therefore, DNS and outgoing web traffic is crucial for its detection. For your convenience, here’s a summary of the intelligence we developed in this blog post: Aliases. 2] Conti ransomware’s internal chats leaked after siding with Russia: [link]. [3] Figure 1: IP address resolutions of gorigan[.]ru. Threat Actor.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Security investigators will use a multitude of data, threat intelligence, log files, DNS activity, and much more to identify the exact nature of the potential breach and determine the best response playbook to use. The post The Art of Ruthless Prioritization and Why it Matters for SecOps appeared first on McAfee Blogs. 1] [link]. [2]

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2019

Indeed we might observe a File-based command and control (a quite unusual solution) structure, a VBS launcher, a PowerShell Payload and a covert channel over DNS engine. According to Duo, “ OilRig delivered Trojans that use DNS tunneling for command and control in attacks since at least May 2016. Source: MISP Project ).

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DNS Computers and Electronics Penetration Testing Government 86

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

DNS hijacking. Later this year, in June, our internal systems found traces of a successful DNS hijacking affecting several government zones of a CIS member state. During these time frames, the authoritative DNS servers for the zones above were switched to attacker-controlled resolvers. December 28, 2020 to January 13, 2021.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 5, 2021

According to SaveBreach , Security Researcher Vinoth Kumar discovered a password that belongs to SolarWinds update server has been leaked to Github since 2018. The enterprises need to deploy a good NTA (NDR) solution that is capable of logging important metadata from the traffic of DNS and other important L7 application protocols.

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

This blog post recounts Mirai’s tale from start to finish. the blog of a famous security journalist and. is Brian Krebs’ blog. Given Brian’s line of work, his blog has been targeted, unsurprisingly, by many DDoS attacks launched by the cyber-criminals he exposes. It is based on the. joint paper. August 2016. This forced.

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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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LRQA Nettitude Labs

APRIL 16, 2024

via DNS spoofing) to redirect the user to a malicious SSH server would be able to capture signatures in order to exploit this vulnerability if the user ignores the SSH key fingerprint change warning. However, an attacker who performs an active man-in-the-middle attack (e.g.

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Authentication DNS Software Encryption 69

SecureList

JUNE 15, 2022

There is access data to 2-3 domains of that network, the total number is 3-4, I don’t know exactly, see the screenshot below for DNS servers! Blackmailer blog: auction price of stolen data. Blackmailer blog: auction price of stolen data along with published data. Blackmailer blog: active auction. Country: Australia.

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VPN Accountability Ransomware Encryption 89

Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

It's also an era where this sort of information is constantly leaked to unauthorised parties; last year Equifax lost control of 145.5 Much of what I'm going to cover in the remainder of this blog post will focus on the site at uidai.gov.in rather than on the various subdomains.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

. “Based on the analysis of the available data, the entire network of Lord & Taylor and 83 Saks Fifth Avenue locations have been compromised,” the firm wrote in a blog post examining the breach. Evolving threats. Errors to avoid.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 15, 2021

Some of those early NGFW implementations took shortcuts to improve performance by simply treating all UDP/53 traffic as DNS and TCP/23 as Telnet, but eventually everyone invested in good enough DPI to get beyond those obvious pitfalls.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2020

If so we are facing a state-sponsored group with high capabilities in developing persistence and hidden communication channels (for example over DNS) but without a deep interest in exploiting services. Original Post published on Ramilli’s blog: Iranian Threat Actors: Preliminary Analysis.

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Computers and Electronics Penetration Testing Malware Government 76

Fox IT

JUNE 23, 2020

We assess that the probable reason for not leaking victim information is the unwanted attention this would draw from law enforcement and the public. Distribution. While many things have changed in the TTPs of Evil Corp recently, one very notable element has not changed, the distribution via the SocGholish fake update framework. Windows NT 6.3;

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

This was a serious vulnerability, one that could leak passwords and encryption keys over the internet, and it simply could not have been detected using traditional static code analysis tools. Basically Heartbleed was a vulnerability in the heartbeat function of OpenSSL that existed for over two year before it was found.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

This was a serious vulnerability, one that could leak passwords and encryption keys over the internet, and it simply could not have been detected using traditional static code analysis tools. Basically Heartbleed was a vulnerability in the heartbeat function of OpenSSL that existed for over two year before it was found.

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