Security Boulevard

MAY 20, 2024

Weekly Threat Intelligence Report Date: May 20, 2024 Prepared by: David Brunsdon, Threat Intelligence - Security Engineer, HYAS Cyber Threat Intelligence Analysis This week in the HYAS Insight threat intelligence platform, we found a concerning open directory hosting multiple pieces of malware. Malware Analysis 1.

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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. DNS is an important part of making the Internet easy to use, but it also creates risks for any business with a website.

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Webroot

MAY 6, 2024

As we navigate through 2024, the cyber threat landscape continues to evolve, bringing new challenges for both businesses and individual consumers. The latest OpenText Threat Report provides insight into these changes, offering vital insights that help us prepare and protect ourselves against emerging threats.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 18, 2022

You know things are dire when the President of the United States uses his bully pulpit to warn American organizations they are likely to be the target of increased cyber threat activity and therefore have a responsibility to protect their infrastructure. So why aren’t more organizations taking advantage of protective DNS?

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 18, 2024

At HYAS, we are deeply committed to empowering organizations with the solutions they need to get proactive against the ever-evolving threat landscape. The timing of this collaboration is particularly significant, given the escalating cyber threats facing organizations across the region.

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SC Magazine

MAY 26, 2021

This latest version of Chrome supports DoH, or DNS-over-HTTPS, said Sean Nikkel, senior cyber threat intel analyst at Digital Shadows. Nikkel said the DoH feature was previously only available in other browsers and operating systems and offers a much more secure method for making DNS requests.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 6, 2021

But, the issues around cybersecurity are here to stay, and the gas pedal must not be eased – especially with the increased risks associated with continued remote working. The Risk Grows Despite lockdown restrictions easing, cybersecurity risks remain and are likely to grow as COVID-19 changes the working landscape.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Category Awareness, Cybersecurity Fundamentals, News Risk Level Google and Yahoo are requiring DMARC beginning February 2024. If you maintain your own mail servers, validate that each IP address has a corresponding PTR record in your DNS (also known as forward and reverse DNS or a hostname). Yahoo will start enforcing a 0.3%

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 6, 2021

Stack components impacted include DNS, IPv6, IPv4, TCP, ICMP, LLMNR, and mDNS. Forescout found DNS to be the most vulnerable due to its complexity, with TCP and IPv4 and IPv6 sub-stacks not far behind. DNS Cache Poisoning: 2. AMNESIA:33 leaves devices and networks open to four potential memory corruption threats.

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SC Magazine

MAY 3, 2021

Cisco’s Customer Experience organization reports that 44% of support cases are resolved in a day or less and 75% successfully reduce the risk of downtime. Hundreds of millions of protected endpoints and users, billions of DNS requests, and millions of authentications mean Cisco sees more threats and vulnerabilities than most anyone else.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In a world rife with cyber threats, it is crucial for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to conduct thorough assessments of their clients’ security posture. Paid add-on modules such as DNS Filtering and Vulnerability & Patch Management will only impact the Site Health Score if the site is licensed for these products.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 29, 2023

Executive summary Credential harvesting is a technique that hackers use to gain unauthorized access to legitimate credentials using a variety of strategies, tactics, and techniques such as phishing and DNS poisoning. According to recent research , phishing assaults targeted credential harvesting in 71.5% of cases in 2020.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Risk Level. This means that while you will create a new DNS record, similar to SPF, you will also have to generate “keys” for your DKIM process to work correctly. BIG NOTE: A major part of DKIM is that the “private key” will need to be placed on your email server, while the “public key” will go in your DNS record.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Risk Level. Luckily you can start to make a difference right now by implementing some changes to your DNS records. So for example, if you registered your website “www.mycompany.com” with GoDaddy, you would edit your DNS record on GoDaddy. Now that you have your list, head to your DNS provider and add a new entry.

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Webroot

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Meanwhile, the global rise in sophisticated ransomware threats and geo-political tensions are escalating cyber threats. In fact, more than half (52%) of respondents now feel more at risk of suffering a ransomware attack due to these unfolding events. The looming recession and inflation have created financial uncertainty.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The panel will tackle topics and questions, including: The potential risks quantum computing poses to current cryptographic methods. When will these risks come to fruition, and who are the main threat actors? Director of Information Security, State of Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology; and Toby Zimmerer, Sr.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

To make things even harder, there is no generally agreed upon and common SaaS security shared responsibility model and each new deployment, configuration, and integration can change the risk calculus. DNS subdomain scanning is a useful tactic to discover internet-exposed SaaS application portals and their APIs.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 21, 2022

But too often the risks associated with this rapid pace have left organizations exposed to too many connections gone forgotten, unmanaged, or misconfigured. Most of these third-party connections come via domain name system (DNS) canonical name (CNAME) records or application programming interface (API) calls. They’re simply not.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Risk Level. So once we’re done here, your DNS records will show the following: One SPF record - containing all your SPF sender information in it One or more DKIM records - one entry for each email company that supports DKIM One DMARC record - containing your “policy” for what to do with the results from the two previous check.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 29, 2024

Judging a cyber threat by its name can be illusory. Here's some evidence for those who consider the risk far-fetched. In addition to the risks outlined by CISA, these add-ons don't sift out dubious advertisements on search engines that are increasingly common.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2019

“The purpose of the task is to ensure the reliable operation of the Internet in Russia in any conditions and under any circumstances,” said Aleksei Sokolov, deputy communications minister, in televised remarks on December 23 from the Monitoring and Cyber Threat Response Center.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 12, 2023

targeting the DNS, and the remaining 3.7% Regularly review and test your DDoS protection strategy to ensure its effectiveness and adapt to evolving threat landscapes. Highly destructive HTTP attacks are becoming more accessible, resulting in 82.3% of DDoS attacks targeting the application layer (L7), 11.7% aimed at other objectives.

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Webroot

MAY 25, 2021

Yet, faced with modern cyber threats, that seems like a pretty impossible goal, particularly as many attacks are designed to operate under the radar, evading detection for weeks or months at a time. Train your end users to avoid security risks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2022

From hardware or software issues and hidden backdoor programs to vulnerable process controls, weak passwords, and other human errors, many problems can put your transactions at risk and leave the door open to cybercriminals. HTTPS and DNS), data link (e.g., Did you know that human error is the main culprit of 95% of data breaches ?

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

It covers seven security domains: security operations and administration; access controls ; risk identification, monitoring and analysis; incident response and recovery; cryptography ; network and communications security; and systems and application security. A variety of training options are available, both online and in person.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 14, 2023

Malicious bots can be used to carry out a range of cyber threats like account takeovers and DDoS attacks, so bot protection is an increasingly important defense for web-facing assets. The company also offers a range of additional cybersecurity solutions, including DDoS protection, web application firewalls, and DNS services.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Information Technology (IT) integrity and availability, such as DNS server security. This fragmented infrastructure results in a lack of centralized control and increases governance risks. Software supply chain security with code signing certificates. Operational Technology (OT) safety and reliability, such as securing smart grids.

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Vipre

JANUARY 25, 2021

Thus, an antivirus is the most important security tool that everyone must have to protect themselves from viruses, malware, trojans, and similar cyber threats. DNS ad blockers are a new breed of ad blockers that use DNS to effectively block ads.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2022

The DDoS assault used multiple attack vectors for User Datagram Protocol (UDP) reflection, including Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP), Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (CLDAP), Domain Name System (DNS), and Network Time Protocol (NTP). There was one peak in the attack, which lasted about 15 minutes.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Nation-state cyber threat groups and ransomware attackers are moving in to exploit a critical flaw found in the seemingly ubiquitous Apache Log4j open-source logging tool, as attacks spread just days after the vulnerability that could affect hundreds of millions of devices was made public late last week. Expanding Log4j Attacks.

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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. Redirects can leave the door open for attackers to drive users of your application to an untrusted external site, creating security issues for your user and leaving your reputation at risk. Path traversal.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

But that doesn’t mean that organizations can’t still make themselves resilient against cyber attacks and address their digital risk. To this end, the German security evaluators AV-TEST independently established HYAS as the most effective DNS protection on the market. But that doesn’t mean game over.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Intrusion detection system (IDS) and intrusion prevention system (IPS) technologies – often combined as intrusion detection and prevention (IDPS) – have been in use for decades, yet they remain important cybersecurity tools even in the face of today’s rapidly changing cyber threats and complex IT environments.

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 17, 2023

Sometimes, cyber threats are closer to home, making them all the more surprising (and frustrating) for many organizations. They’re called insider threats, and you need to pay special attention to ensure you – and your data – don’t fall victim. Threat detection can also come via peer reports and employee diligence.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 14, 2023

We founded HYAS with a mission to tackle cyber threats differently — to use our expertise in adversary infrastructure to discover threats before they become attacks. You can deploy HYAS Protect as a cloud-based protective DNS security solution or through API integration with existing cybersecurity services.

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Webroot

JUNE 21, 2021

Key steps and solutions should be followed to prepare and respond to cyber threats or attacks against your organization. What tools do we have to reduce risk and downtime within the environment? The laptops have antivirus protection, but no DNS protection. How much downtime can your organization withstand?

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 22, 2022

Risk Level. You can read the full statement by President Biden on our Nation’s Cybersecurity , but at a high level, it covers: The economic sanctions that the US and allies imposed on Russia increased the probability of Russia and its allies’ retaliation in the form of cyber attacks. Verizon), DNS resolvers (e.g.

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