Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2024

The researchers observed the malware trying to contact a Taiwan-based public DNS resolver with the IP address 168.95.1[.]1. The researchers observed the malware initiating a DNS query to resolve the domain download.vmfare[.]com com by using the public DNS resolver at 168.95[.]1.1. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

US authorities have indicted two men for hacking the exchange EtherDelta in December 2017, one of them was also accused of TalkTalk hack. US authorities have indicted two men, Elliot Gunton and Anthony Tyler Nashatka, for hacking the cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta in 2017. SecurityAffairs – TalkTalk, hacking).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Datacenter Proxies: Choosing the Right Option CISA adds Roundcube Webmail Persistent XSS bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Canada Gov plans to ban the Flipper Zero to curb car thefts ExpressVPN leaked DNS requests due to a bug in the split tunneling feature 9 Possible Ways Hackers Can Use Public Wi-Fi to Steal Your Sensitive Data US (..)

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Joker Stash admins said in a message published on a hacking forum that the law enforcement only seized the servers hosting the above domains, that were only used to redirecting visitors to the actual website. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime). The sized sites are at jstash.bazar, jstash.lib, jstash.emc, and jstash.coin.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2022

Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g. sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog”). SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). To nominate, please visit:?. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2021

The administrator announced the decision via messages posted on various cybercrime forums. Joker’s Stash is one of the most longevous carding websites, it was launched in October 2014 and is very popular in the cybercrime underground due to the freshness of its cards and their validity. SecurityAffairs – hacking, carding).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2022

Once executed, the malware makes unique DNS connections, experts determined that the binary was leveraging a DNS data exfiltration technique by sending unique DNS queries to a target C2 DNS server. “This technique works by sending an encrypted string appended to the DNS query set as a subdomain.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2023

Copycat Criminals mimicking Lockbit gang in northern Europe Sandworm APT targets Ukraine with new SwiftSlicer wiper ISC fixed high-severity flaws in DNS software suite BIND Patch management is crucial to protect Exchange servers, Microsoft warns Hacker accused of having stolen personal data of all Austrians and more CVE-2023-23560 flaw exposes 100 (..)

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The government agencies receive information about imminent attacks, threat actors are using the TrickBot botnet to deliver the infamous ransomware to the infected systems. “CISA, FBI, and HHS have credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2021

In July, researchers from Fortinet reported that a new ransomware family, tracked as Diavol, might have been developed by Wizard Spider , the cybercrime gang behind the TrickBot botnet. Anchor DNS ), except for the username field. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime). C3F3799FE69249579857D2039BBBAB11.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The analysis of a malicious email revealed a possible raising interest of the TA505 cybercrime gang in system integrator companies. Building a re-directors or proxy chains is quite useful for attackers in order to evade Intrusion Prevention Systems and/or protections infrastructures based upon IPs or DNS blocks. Introduction.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2022

“To deliver the malware payload, the actor registered several malicious subdomains using DuckDNS, a free dynamic DNS service. Threat actors can also sell the access to other cybercrime gangs, including ransomware affiliates. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cloud services). ” reads the analysis published by Talos.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The attack was launched by a Mirai botnet variant composed of 15,000 bots, it combined DNS amplification attacks and UDP floods. “This was a multi-vector attack combining DNS amplification attacks and UDP floods. SecurityAffairs – hacking, DDoS). The entire attack lasted just one minute. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2021

The TeamTNT cybercrime group has improved its Linux cryptocurrency miner by implementing open-source detection evasion capabilities. The TeamTNT cybercrime group has upgraded their Linux cryptocurrency miner by adding open-source detection evasion capabilities, AT&T Alien Labs researchers warn. SecurityAffairs – hacking, malware).

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2023

Twitter confirmed that a security incident publicly exposed Circle tweets FBI seized other domains used by the shadow eBook library Z-Library WordPress Advanced Custom Fields plugin XSS exposes +2M sites to attacks Fortinet fixed two severe issues in FortiADC and FortiOS Pro-Russia group NoName took down multiple France sites, including the French (..)

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2022

In July, researchers from Fortinet first spotted the new ransomware family, tracked as Diavol, and speculated it might have been developed by Wizard Spider , the cybercrime gang behind the TrickBot botnet. The FBI encourages victims of the gang to report information concerning suspicious or criminal activity to their local FBI field office.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The administrator announced the decision via messages posted on various cybercrime forums. Joker’s Stash is one of the most longevous carding websites, it was launched in October 2014 and is very popular in the cybercrime underground due to the freshness of its cards and their validity. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Joker’s Stash).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

During this process, a number of DNS requests are generated.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, Log4Shell). The post Two Linux botnets already exploit Log4Shell flaw in Log4j appeared first on Security Affairs. Experts pointed out that Muhstik uses the TOR network for its reporting mechanism. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The experts used passive DNS records to uncover Glupteba domains and hosts and analyzed the latest set of TLS certificates used by the bot to figure out the infrastructure used by the attackers. We also recommend monitoring DNS logs and keeping the antivirus software up to date to help prevent a potential Glupteba infection.”

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DNS Antivirus Cryptocurrency Software 98

Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2021

million customers Adobe addresses two critical vulnerabilities in Photoshop Hamburg’s data protection agency (DPA) states that using Zoom violates GDPR Kalay cloud platform flaw exposes millions of IoT devices to hack Fortinet FortiWeb OS Command Injection allows takeover servers remotely 1.9 SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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Data breaches Mobile Ransomware DNS 100

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 385 appeared first on Security Affairs. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. gov adds more Chinese Telecom firms to the Covered List Imperva blocked a record DDoS attack with 25.3

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2021

.” state researchers at Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence Center and Section 52 at Azure Defender for IoT. “By infecting routers, they can perform man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks—via HTTP hijacking and DNS spoofing—to compromise endpoints and deploy ransomware or cause safety incidents in OT facilities.

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IoT DNS Manufacturing Firmware 103

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Talos researchers warn of a new threat actor that is hacking Microsoft Exchange servers by exploiting ProxyShell flaws to gain access to corporate and deploy the Babuk Ransomware. The analysis of DNS request distribution to the malicious domains revealed that most of the requests were coming from the U.S. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2023

A Pro-Russian cybercrime group named NoName057 (16) (aka 05716nnm or Nnm05716) is behind a wave of DDoS attacks against organizations in Ukraine and NATO countries, SentinelOne researchers reported. Experts observed threat actors also using No-IP Dynamic DNS services. SecurityAffairs – hacking, NoName057(16) ).

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DDOS Telecommunications DNS Education 68

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Talos researchers believe that the group was able to remain under the radar using crypters that it bought on cybercrime forums. They abandon the C2 hostnames — which in this case are free DNS-based and they may change the crypter and initial vector, but they won’t stop their activity. SecurityAffairs – hacking, malware).

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Malware Phishing DNS Cybercrime 97

Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2022

The feature allows operators to elude DNS blocklists in an attempt to isolate the C2 infrastructure. the malware communicates with the C2 server through DNS Tunneling over HTTPS. . SecurityAffairs – hacking, Flubot). appeared first on Security Affairs. ” reads the report published by F5. In version 4.9,

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Malware DNS Banking Hacking 104

Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2022

“Network telemetry can be used to detect anomalous DNS requests, and security tools such as antivirus and endpoint detection and response (EDR) should be statically linked to ensure they are not “infected” by userland rootkits.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, Symbiote backdoor). appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Malware DNS Antivirus Passwords 144

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The threat actor was also spotted locking the victims out of the network by disabling DNS services, making the recovery even more complex. . SecurityAffairs – hacking, Black Basta ransomware). In most of the attacks observed by the experts, the spear-phishing email contains a malicious disk image file. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malware Ransomware DNS Phishing 86

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Roaming Mantis surfaced in March 2018 when hacked routers in Japan redirecting users to compromised websites. Since then, the criminal group has continued its attack activities by using various malware families such as HEUR:Trojan-Dropper.AndroidOS.Wroba, and various attack methods such as phishing, mining, smishing and DNS poisoning.

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Phishing DNS Malware Hacking 86

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2019

FireEye Mandiant discovered that the FIN7 hacking group added new tools to its cyber arsenal, including a module to target remote administration software of ATM vendor. The messages sent to the victims were also dropping the backdoor DNSbot that primarily operates over DNS traffic. SecurityAffairs – FIN7, hacking).

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Identity Theft Hacking Advertising DNS 75

Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2023

The attackers attempted to verify outbound network connectivity with a ping command and executed host commands for a subnet-wide DNS lookup. Then threat actors sent data as an image file to a web-accessible path: cp /var/tmp/test.tar.gz /netscaler/ns_gui/vpn/medialogininit.png. Network-segmentation controls blocked this activity too.

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VPN Ransomware DNS Malware 103

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The malware connects C2 primarily over DNS, to avoid detection, but it is also able to use HTTP. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Cobalt Strike). The post Vermilion Strike, a Linux implementation of Cobalt Strike Beacon used in attacks appeared first on Security Affairs. ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2023

. “The malicious activity detailed in the detection included listing processes, network connectivity testing, gathering user and group information, mounting shares, enumeration of domain trust over WMI, and listing DNS zones over WMI.” ” reads the analysis published by the company. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2022

Operators can easily make this configuration through an interface that uses the CloudFlare API for configuring new DNS zones. Pedro Tavares is a professional in the field of information security working as an Ethical Hacker, Malware Analyst and also a Security Evangelist. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Anubis).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

According to Martynas Vareikis, Information Security Researcher at Cybernews, threat actors could use the email addresses exposed in the dataset to carry out phishing attacks. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Thomson Reuters). Attackers could impersonate Thomson Reuters and send the company’s customers fake invoices.

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IoT Engineering Passwords Media 116

Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2019

Group-IB has limited some of the data in the reports that could hinder investigations into the group’s cybercrimes. The Trojan is used during the lateral movement stage and is designed to control compromised systems by performing tasks through the command shell and tunneling traffic using the DNS protocol. APT, hacking).

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Banking Cybercrime Advertising Cybersecurity 56

Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2019

Experts at Check Point Research and Cyberint discovered multiple security flaws in EA Games’ login process that could allow an attacker to take over EA gamers’ accounts and steal sensitive data. SecurityAffairs – EA games, hacking). ” reads the advisory published by CheckPoint. Pierluigi Paganini.

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