Security Boulevard

MAY 20, 2022

What Is DNS Spoofing and How Is It Prevented? What Is the DNS and DNS Server? . To fully understand DNS spoofing, it’s important to understand DNS and DNS servers. The DNS “domain name system” is then what translates the domain name into the right IP address. What Is DNS Spoofing? .

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

Russia plans to disconnect the country from the internet as part of an experiment aimed at testing the response to cyber attacks that should isolate it. Russia plans to conduct the country from the Internet for a limited period of time to conduct a test aimed at assessing the security of its infrastructure. and Yandex.ru

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Russia successfully disconnected from the internet. Russia’s government announced that it has successfully concluded a series of tests for its RuNet intranet aimed at country disconnection from the Internet. One of them is checking the integrity and security of the Internet as a result of external negative influences.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2019

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accuses Iran of launching cyber-attacks on its country with a daily basis. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed that Iran launched cyber-attacks on Israel on a daily basis, but its experts are able to block them. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – Israel, Netanyahu).

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Heimadal Security

MARCH 17, 2023

As cyber-attacks continue to proliferate, it’s essential for organizations to stay ahead of the game when it comes to security. One area that requires particular attention is the Domain Name System (DNS). DNS attacks are more common than one might think, simply because they essentially exploit the way the internet works.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 15, 2022

From the past few hours, some reliable news resources report Putin has asked the Russian Ministry of Digital Development to cut down internet connection to the west by severing internet lines laid in international waters. domain and all the ISPs will use a single domestic DNS server for operations.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 20, 2024

The financial sector is a prime target for cyber attacks. There’s no shortage of researchable financial cybercrime on the internet. We’ve picked out four popular attack vectors targeting major financial sector institutions every day and compiled (4) use cases that details how HYAS identifies and stops them.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 9, 2024

Operational resiliency necessitates intelligence, visibility, and confidence: the three foundational pillars of protective DNS (PDNS). This makes malware command-and-control, phishing attacks, DNS tunneling and a number of other attacks significantly less effective. How and Why Do Cyber Attacks Happen?

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 4, 2025

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) this week in a new guidance document titled Securing HTTP-based APIs , published in the wake of several high-profile API breaches. Increase monitoring and logging of DNS and network traffic; and set up fast flux alert mechanisms. So said the U.K.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 6, 2024

Threat Intelligence Report Date: August 6, 2024 Prepared by: David Brunsdon, Threat Intelligence - Security Engineer, HYAS Dynamic DNS (DDNS) is a service that automatically updates the Domain Name System (DNS) in real-time to reflect changes in the IP addresses of a domain.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2021

At the time of this writing, it is unclear if the outage is the result of a technical issue or it is the result of a cyber attack against the infrastructure of the social network giant. About five minutes before Facebook's DNS stopped working we saw a large number of BGP changes (mostly route withdrawals) for Facebook's ASN.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 1, 2019

NormShield found that all of the 2020 presidential hopefuls, thus far, are making sure their campaigns are current on software patching, as well as Domain Name System (DNS) security; and several are doing much more. Our goal is to help organizations create more secure ecoystems to support a free and fair election processes.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 6, 2021

As indoor spaces begin to open in the next few months, employees will want to venture out to new spaces to work, such as coffee shops and internet cafes – but working on open networks and personal devices creates unlocked gateways for cyberattacks to take place. DNS is frequently targeted by. DNS is frequently targeted by.

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Mark talks about how the Internet community can come together ahead of the next vulnerability to make sure the. Episode 229: BugCrowd’s Casey Ellis On What’s Hot In Bug Hunting Episode 227: What’s Fueling Cyber Attacks on Agriculture ? Read the whole entry. » » Click the icon below to listen.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

While investigating a cyber attack on the Microsoft Exchange server of an organization in Kuwait, experts found two new Powershell backdoors. Security experts from Palo Alto Networks have spotted two never-before-detected Powershell backdoors while investigating an attack on Microsoft Exchange servers at an organization in Kuwait.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

This week a controversial law entered into effect in Russia, it would allow the government to cut internet traffic from the global Internet. This week a controversial law entered into effect in Russia, it would allow the Russian government to disconnect the country from the global Internet.

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2023

Experts found multiple vulnerabilities in Teltonika industrial cellular routers that could expose OT networks to cyber attacks. A joint analysis conducted by industrial cybersecurity firms Claroty and O torio discovered multiple flaws in Teltonika Networks’ IIoT products that can expose OT networks to remote attacks.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2021

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Now and then, we get to hear news about data breaches and cyber attacks. As such, it does not come as a surprise that people are becoming more and more concerned about their privacy on the Internet – and remaining anonymous is one of the best ways to protect it. A proxy acts as a middleman between you and the Internet.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 22, 2023

Securing SMB Success: The Indispensable Role of Protective DNS Cyber attacks pose as much risk to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) as they do to large organizations — if not more. Recent findings show a staggering 82% of ransomware attacks are aimed at small businesses.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 30, 2021

Is your organization prepared to mitigate Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against mission-critical cloud-based applications? A DDoS attack is a cyber attack that uses bots to flood the targeted server or application with junk traffic, exhausting its resources and disrupting service for real human users.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 21, 2022

These are generally considered non-critical, but the risk of chained attacks stemming from issues like subdomain takeovers make it more essential than ever to monitor and secure the full attack surface. Some common examples we see include: Third-party marketing and support platforms (like HubSpot or Zendesk). What can be done.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Microsoft quickly issued a patch – but slow updates by users left the hole open for NotPetya , a huge cyber attack that disabled systems and made them inaccessible just two months later. In July 2021, another wave of attacks hit SolarWinds. Further reading: Top Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) Vendors for 2021.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2020

Serious security vulnerabilities in the Treck TCP/IP stack dubbed Ripple20 expose millions of IoT devices worldwide to cyber attacks, researchers warn. Hundreds of millions of devices worldwide could be vulnerable to remote attacks due to security vulnerabilities in the Treck TCP/IP stack dubbed Ripple20.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Hackers defaced Linux.org with DNS hijack. A new variant of Shamoon was uploaded to Virus Total while Saipem was under attack. Cyber attack hit the Italian oil and gas services company Saipem. A new Mac malware combines a backdoor and a crypto-miner. Expert devised a new WiFi hack that works on WPA/WPA2.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 12, 2023

Highly destructive HTTP attacks are becoming more accessible, resulting in 82.3% of DDoS attacks targeting the application layer (L7), 11.7% targeting the DNS, and the remaining 3.7% attack share), India (14.2%), and China (11.7%) remain the most targeted countries. aimed at other objectives.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Secure web gateway (SWG) solutions help keep enterprise networks from falling victim to ransomware , malware , and other threats carried by internet traffic and malicious websites. Secure web gateways, then, provide fast, secure access to the Internet and SaaS, making digital business a safe and productive experience.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 10, 2023

From a capability standpoint, HYAS not only continually gathers unique and bespoke data, but assembles it in a proprietary graph database that is constantly evolving to represent the real-time view of adversary infrastructure on the Internet. Are you ready to protect yourself in a more dangerous cyber landscape?

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Following a recent Incident Response, McAfee Enterprise‘s Advanced Threat Research (ATR) team worked with its Professional Services IR team to support a case that initially started as a malware incident but ultimately turned out to be a long-term cyber-attack. The hardcoded 208.67.222.222 resolves to a legitimate OpenDNS DNS server.

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SecureList

JUNE 7, 2023

MotW is a Windows security measure — the system displays a warning message when someone tries to open a file downloaded from the internet. Roaming Mantis implements new DNS changer We continue to track the activities of Roaming Mantis (aka Shaoye), a well-established threat actor targeting countries in Asia.

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SecureList

JUNE 3, 2024

Cracked applications are one of the easiest ways for attackers to get malware onto people’s computers: to elevate their privileges, they only need to ask for the password, which usually arouses no suspicion during software installation. It simulated the isolated system without access to the internet.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Enterprises need timely, relevant, and actionable cyber threat intelligence to understand threat infrastructure and to prevent, detect, and mitigate the impacts of phishing, ransomware, and other kinds of cyber attacks. It also identifies future threat activity for associated infrastructure that has not yet been weaponized.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 20, 2024

Fundamentally, adversary infrastructure is the sub-rosa backbone bad actors set up when in advance prior to compromising a system — it’s used for instructions, to facilitate malware updates, for data exfiltration, and in general across all phases of the attack. We can do the exact same thing at a DNS level. The answer lies in DNS.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2024

CISA adds Microsoft Windows CLFS driver flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Microsoft December 2024 Patch Tuesday addressed actively exploited zero-day SAP fixed critical SSRF flaw in NetWeaver’s Adobe Document Services Romanian energy supplier Electrica Group is facing a ransomware attack Deloitte denied its systems were hacked (..)

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Security Boulevard

MAY 17, 2023

The threat actor’s methodology wasn’t unique — they used a six-step approach that can be mapped directly to cyber attack frameworks. Most of these steps could’ve been blocked with the aid of DNS protection. Though we still don’t know the identity of the attacker(s), we know they carried the attack in six basic steps.

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Vipre

JANUARY 25, 2021

Cyber-attacks are on the rise and are becoming more potent with each day. Whether you use your computer for personal or professional purposes, cyber-attacks are an imminent threat to your privacy and personal or professional information. Internet ads are one of the major sources of phishing scams and ransomware attacks.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 18, 2024

The timing of this collaboration is particularly significant, given the escalating cyber threats facing organizations across the region. With cyber attacks becoming increasingly sophisticated and frequent, there is an urgent need for proactive defense mechanisms that adapt to evolving threats in real-time.

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