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TA505 Cybercrime targets system integrator companies

Security Affairs

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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Vermilion Strike, a Linux implementation of Cobalt Strike Beacon used in attacks

Security Affairs

Cobalt Strike is a legitimate penetration testing tool designed as an attack framework for red teams (groups of security professionals who act as attackers on their own org’s infrastructure to discover security gaps and vulnerabilities.). “ Vermilion Strike and other Linux threats remain a constant threat.

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How to Stop Phishing Attacks with Protective DNS

Security Boulevard

This blog examines the escalating phishing landscape, shortcomings of common anti-phishing approaches, and why implementing a Protective DNS service as part of a layered defense provides the most effective solution. Business Email Compromise (BEC), a type of phishing attack, results in the greatest financial losses of any cybercrime.

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New Linux/DDosMan threat emerged from an evolution of the older Elknot

Security Affairs

But if we go on the Akamai blog we can still find a reference to Elknot posted on April 4, 2016 on a topic referred to “ BillGates ”, another DDoS malware whose “ attack vectors available within the toolkit include: ICMP flood, TCP flood, UDP flood, SYN flood, HTTP Flood (Layer7) and DNS reflection floods.

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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. Through tenures at Citrix, HP, and Bugcrowd, Jason Haddix offers his expertise in the areas of penetration testing , web application testing, static analysis, and more.

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Unveiling the Balada injector: a malware epidemic in WordPress

Security Affairs

Some are less obvious, such as ensuring sound DNS security through solutions like Cisco Umbrella or DNSFilter. These capabilities exist to provide network-level or roaming client solutions that identify, then block redirection attempts and DNS requests to known malicious sites. Remove all unnecessary or unused software.

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Best Digital Forensics Tools & Software for 2021

eSecurity Planet

As cybercrime flourishes and evolves, organizations need a fleet of tools to defend and investigate incidents. Other significant Xplico features include multithreading, SQLite or MySQL integration, no data entry limits, and can execute reserve DNS lookup from DNS pack.

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