Malwarebytes

AUGUST 16, 2023

In today's blog post, we look at a recent malvertising chain that started using a more advanced cloaking technique to remain under the radar. Malicious ad and cloaking Threat actors continue to target certain IT programs such as remote access programs and scanners by creating ads that are displayed on popular search engines such as Google.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 31, 2024

Nitrogen is the name given to a campaign and associated malware that have been distributed via malicious search ads. In this blog post, we look at a recent Nitrogen campaign and specifically at how the initial payload is being served onto victims. Many businesses are not adequately protected when it comes to malicious ads.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 20, 2022

This blog post was authored by Jérôme Segura. We started our search with any recent submissions that made contact with an IP address belonging to AS29182. The table below shows hostnames, their IP address and the date they were first seen on urlscan.io. Hostname IP address First seen app[.]nomalert[.]org

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In recent weeks, we have noted an increase in malvertising campaigns via Google searches. In this blog post, we look at a malvertising campaign that seems to have flown under the radar entirely for at least several months. Want to learn more about how we can help protect your business? com karelisweb[.]com com jquerywins[.]com

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2020

after receiving what looked like a bill for search engine optimization (SEO) services rendered on behalf of their domain names. The missives appear to be an $85 bill for an “annual search engine listing” service. A cached copy of Mark Scott’s blog Internet Madness from 2011 promotes Web Listings Inc.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Related: Leveraging security standards to protect your company. There are several ways you can protect your business from data breaches. One of the most important ways to protect against data breaches is to increase employee security awareness. Cybercriminals are constantly searching for ways to gain access to an organization.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Malware is any kind of software designed to interfere with your device or network, whether it’s gaining access to your protected data or disrupting your systems to bring them to a halt. Incognito mode protects my personal information from bad actors. Most of these have to do with preventing malware from infecting your device.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2022

According to Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities , FCEB agencies have to address the identified vulnerabilities by the due date to protect their networks against attacks exploiting the flaws in the catalog. Most popular are USG20-VPN (10K IPs) and USG20W-VPN (5.7K

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 4, 2020

Since launching version 2 of Pwned Passwords with the k-anonymity model just over 2 years ago now, the thing has really gone nuts (read that blog post for background otherwise nothing from here on will make much sense). The anonymity value is that from my perspective running the service, all I know is that someone is searching for "21bd1".

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Good bots visit websites to perform jobs, like search engine crawling, website health monitoring and website vulnerability scanning. Search engines might view the scraped content as duplicate content, which can hurt SEO rankings. If you spend time reading blogs, you’ve probably spent some time perusing the comment section.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 9, 2023

This blog post was authored by Jérôme Segura. This blog post will cover the technical details of the skimmer and its crime-filled ecosystem. On the same IP address (185.178.208[.]174) On the same IP address (185.178.208[.]181) Online criminals rarely reinvent the wheel, especially when they don't have to.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Since June, there has been a fourfold increase in the search volume around keywords associated with these types of attacks. Mobile phones often don’t have the same level of corporate protections that desktops do. In June, we started seeing these types of attacks amongst our customer base.

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NetSpi Executives

MARCH 19, 2024

When transitioning to ASM, security experts conduct specific operations to identify elements such as subsidiaries and various IPs associated with the organization. With the full force of NetSPI in your corner, you can navigate rapid innovation with confidence, while protecting the trust you’ve worked so hard to build.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 13, 2023

During the past month, we have observed an increase in the number of malicious ads on Google searches for “Zoom”, the popular piece of video conferencing software. In this blog post, we chose to highlight two cases: Case #1 is about a new loader which we have not seen mentioned publicly before called HiroshimaNukes.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 26, 2022

In 2021, the main attack vector used by this threat actor was credential phishing attacks through emails, posing as Naver, the popular South Korean search engine and web portal. Some details about this campaign were published in this Korean blog, however they did not perform the threat attribution. C2 IP addresses.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

There are many people who would prefer their travel history and residency status not be publicized, so for them there are obvious privacy issues,” an official blog post by Comparitech Tech Writer Paul Bischoff reads. RESOURCE] Concerned about data protection at your organization?

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McAfee

JULY 31, 2020

These come after another recent leak of source code from Nintendo, prompting us to comment on the issue of IP protection and secure development pipelines. . A search for SonarQube on the popular IoT search engine Shodan allows anyone to discover ports used by common software such as this.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In the end, our goal is to better align with your prioritized intelligence requirements and help you better protect your organization from your adversaries. Second, we are correlating billions of hashes and C2 domains and IPs, which we then further correlate with other rich adversary infrastructure intelligence across the solution.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In this blog, we present an overview of how you can mitigate the risk of this vulnerability exploitation with McAfee Enterprise solutions. As we are writing this blog, on MVISION Insights there are 1,813 IOCs including MD5, SHA256, URL, IP, DOMAIN, HOSTNAME. The IP address 45.155.205[.]233 MVISION EDR. MVISION UCE.

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Malware Risk Internet Internet 98

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2018

In late 2016, the world witnessed the sheer disruptive power of Mirai , a powerful botnet strain fueled by Internet of Things (IoT) devices like DVRs and IP cameras that were put online with factory-default passwords and other poor security settings. The raw, unbranded electronic components of an IP camera produced by Xiongmai.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 23, 2021

Omer Yoachimik, Product Manager of Cloudflare's DDoS Protection Service, discusses the scale of the attack: "For perspective on how large this attack was: Cloudflare serves over 25 million HTTP requests per second on average. Cloudflare was able to fend off an attack of this scale with its autonomous edge DDoS protection system.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 3, 2023

By purchasing ads, these links appear as the top result of a Google search when a user’s query is relevant to the misleading content of the ad. It generates encrypted traffic to multiple domains hosted on different IP addresses through different hosting companies. Next-gen protective DNS. The others are benign, decoy domains.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 14, 2021

This blog post is divided into four parts: Introduction : provides an overview of what happened. While you could upload the original RAR file; the attacker has password-protected it and VirusTotal will be unable to scan it properly. It gathers external information by querying one of the following IP lookup services: [link].

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SecureList

APRIL 13, 2023

In this blog post, we provide excerpts from the recent reports that focus on uncommon infection methods and describe the associated malware. In Q4 2022, we noticed 112k RapperBot infection attempts coming from over 2k unique IP addresses. Both search engine and website-based ad platforms are leveraged by Rhadamanthys.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

To prevent any confusion, as per the Tor blog: The person, or persons, who run Freedom Hosting are in no way affiliated or connected to The Tor Project, Inc., The malware exploited a bug in the Tor browser that revealed the IP addresses of visitors, defeating Tor’s anonymity protection, and allowing them to be located.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

We developed this short video to show how with TLS Protect Cloud, you can start building an inventory of TLS certificates on your public and private networks within minutes of starting a free 30-day trial. Internet-based discovery is a powerful capability unique to TLS Protect Cloud that starts building an inventory as soon as you sign up.

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Internet Internet DNS Risk 52

Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 3, 2021

If you’re up to no good and relying on anonymity to protect you, even the slightest connection to your real life can bring the whole scheme crashing down. This, in theory, would keep his real IP address hidden. We’ve talked about the harms caused by insider threats many times on this blog. Anonymous—up to a point.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This blog post was authored by Jérôme Segura. What originally caught our attention was seeing a Google advert on what appeared to be an adult page, as it is strictly against the search giant's acceptable content policy. 4-main-benefits-of-installing-gutter-protection-systems. dollars for 2022. 10-home-heating-tips.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 20, 2022

There was a 10-fold increase in the number of samples of Mozi found in the wild, Mihai Maganu, a threat researcher at CrowdStrike, wrote in a blog post. Also read: Top 8 DDoS Protection Service Providers for 2022. IoT Protection Steps. Threats to Open Source, IoT. IoT devices have made botnets great again,” Bambenek said.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 28, 2023

writes a cybersecurity prescription for the NHS and for social care, data protection hardware is becoming a big security gap, security specialist MITRE partners up to tackle supply chain security threats, while the E.U. government has sketched out a strategy to protect the National Health Service from cyberattacks. By Joe Fay The U.K.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Because so much of cybersecurity relies on passive forms of protection (think firewalls, antivirus solutions, password protection, etc.), Passive protection is good and necessary, to be sure, but network “booby traps,” sometimes called canary tokens , can help reduce the advantage held by hackers.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 30, 2021

Be sure to check out the bonus tip at the end of the blog and share in the comments other ways your organization is successfully securing APIs. Use a flexible security policy which accurately identifies API calls that misuse the latest vulnerabilities and automatically protects against this threat by terminating the API session.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 12, 2023

Top 7 Data Security Practices for the Workplace IdentityIQ As businesses become increasingly reliant on technology, protecting sensitive information is more important than ever. In this blog, we cover the top-seven data security practices every workplace should implement to help protect valuable information and more.

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Passwords Data breaches Antivirus Password Management 52

McAfee

JANUARY 17, 2020

What can you do to protect yourself? How are McAfee Customers Protected? McAfee can help protect against this vulnerability with a signature set to help detect fraudulently signed files. McAfee Network Security Platform (IPS). We will continue to update the articles. The bug is considered to be highly critical.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2019

Your name and city are enough to run a comprehensive internet search. Google will bring up links to anything with your name, including: company websites, personal blogs or websites, social media profiles like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and local media you may be featured in. They use port scanning to examine known IP blocks.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In part 2 , I covered IP addresses and the importance of a decent network to run all this stuff on, followed by Zigbee and the role of low power, low bandwidth devices. I ended up constantly debugging network traffic and searching across endless threads just like this one trying to work out why Sonos wasn't playing nice across VLANs.

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IoT Firmware Risk Manufacturing 358

Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2020

When malware initiates, it requests Google Drive documents for details on the C2’s IP address. As a way of preventing malware from running on virtual machines (VM-Protect) and analyzing it (anti-debug/reverse), the well-known packer Armadillo was used to make the Trojan protected.

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