CSO Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2022

To camouflage their activity, the researchers noted, the hackers used the DuckDNS dynamic DNS service to change the domain names of the command-and-control hosts used for the campaign, which started distributing variants of Nanocore, Netwire, and AsyncRATs to targets in the United States, Italy and Singapore, starting around October 26.

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DNS Malware 131

CSO Magazine

JUNE 14, 2021

DNS, or Domain Name System, was created to provide a better way, one in which users could type in a friendly host name rather than an IP. DNS not only met this need but has also scaled incredibly well — now supporting over 330 million domains. In considering what DNS provides, the flaws in privacy become very apparent.

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DNS IoT Internet Internet 59

CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Punycode is a system for representing Unicode characters as ASCII and is used for example to represent internationalized domain names in the DNS system. The two vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022-3786 and CVE-2022-3602, are buffer overflow conditions in the punycode decoding functionality that was first introduced in OpenSSL 3.0.0

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

Network telemetry can be used to detect anomalous DNS requests and security tools such as AVs and EDRs should be statically linked to ensure they are not “infected” by userland rootkits." "Symbiote is a malware that is highly evasive," researchers from BlackBerry said in a new report. To read this article in full, please click here

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DNS Malware 104

CSO Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The JNDI injection can leverage different protocols such as Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Secure LDAP (LDAPS), Remote Method Invocation (RMI), or Domain Name Service (DNS) to request a malicious payload. To read this article in full, please click here

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DNS 113

CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Moreover, widespread reliance on video conferencing apps forced many businesses to upgrade enterprise wide-area network and local-area network capacity, as well as to reevaluate routing and DNS resolution paths within the network.

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DNS VPN Software 96

CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Common logs from servers and firewalls are fairly easily ingested and parsed, while DNS or physical security logs are much tougher to manage at scale, and block visibility into the security environment. All logs are not created equal.

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DNS Firewall 84

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

My advice for anybody that asks me which certifications they should get is this: find a certification in a subject that you wish to learn about,” Palo Alto Networks CSO Rick Howard said. “If If you are going to study the subject anyway, you might as well get a certification out of it.”. Also read: How to Get Started in a Cybersecurity Career.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 26, 2023

The malware uses DNS queries to receive commands from attackers encoded into IP addresses. A cyberespionage group believed to be associated with the Iranian government has been infecting Microsoft Exchange Servers with a new malware implant dubbed BellaCiao that acts as a dropper for additional payloads.

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Malware DNS Government 107

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

DNS over HTTPS is a sensitive info grab by whomever Web browsers partner with, yet it's sold as a "privacy enhancement." " Instead of keeping DNS for most consumers at their ISP, the DoH providers now seize a Web usage goldmine. The majority will not change their browser defaults.

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