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5 pro-freedom technologies that could change the Internet

Malwarebytes

After a good start, the Internet-enabled, technological revolution we are living through has hit some bumps in the road. To celebrate Independence Day we want to draw your attention to five technologies that could improve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness on the Internet. DNS encryption. Passwordless authentication.

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Cracked software beats gold: new macOS backdoor stealing cryptowallets

SecureList

With this URL, the sample made a request to a DNS server as an attempt to get a TXT record for the domain. This was a fairly interesting and unusual way of contacting a command-and-control server and hiding activity inside traffic, and it guaranteed downloading the payload, as the response message came from the DNS server.

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Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com

Krebs on Security

Your Web browser knows how to find a Web site name like example.com thanks to the global Domain Name System (DNS), which serves as a kind of phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly Web site names (example.com) into numeric Internet address that are easier for computers to manage. ” SAY WHAT? domaincontrol.com.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

Spamit), an invite-only community for Russian-speaking people in the businesses of sending spam and building botnets of infected computers to relay said spam. I can not provide DNS for u, only domains. One such site — sun-technology[.]net The Spamdot admins went by the nicknames Icamis (a.k.a. Ika ), and Salomon (a.k.a.

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Analyzing the APT34’s Jason project

Security Affairs

Distributed in a ZIP container (a copy is available here ) the interface is quite intuitive: the Microsoft exchange address and its version shall be provided (even if in the code a DNS-domain discovery mode function is available). I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Krebs on Security

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. The 911 service as it exists today.

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OilRig APT group: the evolution of attack techniques over time

Security Affairs

T1094) mainly developed using DNS resolutions (which is actually one of the main characteristic of the attacker group). They begun development by introducing crafted communication protocol over DNS and later they added, to such a layer, encoding and encryption self build protocols. About the author: Marco Ramilli, Founder of Yoroi.