SecureWorld News

MARCH 29, 2024

Judging a cyber threat by its name can be illusory. A DNS firewall and a classic antivirus are somewhat underused yet effective security tools that will come in handy. A mix of social engineering, hacking, and abuse of legitimate services makes this style of online crime incredibly effective.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 21, 2022

These attackers hack for fun, learn from their community, and leverage vulnerability disclosures from bug bounty programs to worm their way in. Most of these third-party connections come via domain name system (DNS) canonical name (CNAME) records or application programming interface (API) calls.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

“Certifications range from penetration testers , government/industry regulatory compliance , ethical hacking , to industry knowledge,” he said. “Some certifications are entry level, and some require several years of experience, with peer references, before getting certified.”

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 8, 2021

When your data is not properly encrypted before storage or transmission, your vulnerability to a cyber threat increases. If you want to see how common they are, just see this white-hat hack of Apple from a few months ago. How to Prevent DNS Attacks. IaaS Security: Threats and Protection Methodologies .

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2021

In particular, Gafgyt’s authors copied its implementation of various DDoS methods, such as TCP, UDP and HTTP flooding, as well as its brute-force functionality for hacking IoT devices via the Telnet protocol. It is linked to a vulnerability in DNS resolvers that allows amplification attacks on authoritative DNS servers.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2021

Resecurity® HUNTER, cyber threat intelligence and R&D unit, identified a strong connection to a cloud hosting and IoT company servicing the domain belonging to cybercriminals. SecurityAffairs – hacking, REVIL ransomware). re’ in addition to a ransomware page available in the TOR network. The investigation is still ongoing.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

One of the unique things about how they did this is they judged it in a full spectrum hacking contest. For example, they may think, "Hey, the user's going to give me an input and it's only going to be as long as maybe a DNS record." If you look at like the Tesla hack, it was interesting. but they never actually checked that.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 5, 2021

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. Data ingestion through DNS logs are also helpful, but it might not capture the signals if the attacker utilizes public DNS such as Google DNS (8.8.8.8)

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

One of the unique things about how they did this is they judged it in a full spectrum hacking contest. For example, they may think, "Hey, the user's going to give me an input and it's only going to be as long as maybe a DNS record." If you look at like the Tesla hack, it was interesting. but they never actually checked that.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

One of the unique things about how they did this is they judged it in a full spectrum hacking contest. For example, they may think, "Hey, the user's going to give me an input and it's only going to be as long as maybe a DNS record." If you look at like the Tesla hack, it was interesting. but they never actually checked that.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Security expert Antonio Pirozzi, director at ZLab malware lab at Cybaze firm, presented at the EU Cyber Threat Conference in Dublin conducted a research along with Pierluigi Paganini (aka @securityaffairs ), about how crooks could abuse blockchain for malicious purposes.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2021

Upon detection, Group-IB’s Digital Risk Protection reached out UNICC’s Common Secure team as a trusted contact for cyber threat intelligence matters within the UN ecosystem, to assure that proper contacts within WHO were aware of the scam. SecurityAffairs – hacking, UNICC ). Group-IB then took down all the scam domains.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security) protocol is used to establish secure connections over UDP, through which most DNS queries, as well as audio and video traffic, are sent. Dear players, The PUBG MOBILE team are currently actively working to resolve the DDoS attacks against our systems and the new hacking issues. Statistics.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The data at issue refers to communications traversing the Domain Name System (DNS), a global database that maps computer-friendly coordinates like Internet addresses (e.g., DNS lookups from Alfa Bank constituted the majority of those requests. DNS lookups from Alfa Bank constituted the majority of those requests.

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