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Indictment, Lawsuits Revive Trump-Alfa Bank Story

Krebs on Security

In October 2016, media outlets reported that data collected by some of the world’s most renowned cybersecurity experts had identified frequent and unexplained communications between an email server used by the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank , one of Russia’s largest financial institutions. trump-email.com).

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StripedFly: Perennially flying under the radar

SecureList

DNS resolutions for pool servers are cleverly concealed behind DNS over HTTPS requests to the Cloudflare DoH (DNS over HTTPS) service , adding an extra layer of stealth to its operations. The ThunderCrypt ransomware exhibited a strikingly similar array of functionality and modules when compared to StripedFly. onion:1111.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 223 – News of the week

Security Affairs

NCSC report warns of DNS Hijacking Attacks. Emsisoft released a free decryptor for the Ims00rry ransomware. DoppelPaymer, a fork of BitPaymer Ransomware, appeared in the threat landscape. Israel surveillance firm NSO group can mine data from major social media. iOS URL Scheme expose users to App-in-the-Middle attack.

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Thomson Reuters collected and leaked at least 3TB of sensitive data

Security Affairs

The naming of ElasticSearch indices inside the Thomson Reuters server suggests that the open instance was used as a logging server to collect vast amounts of data gathered through user-client interaction. A simple human error can lead to devastating attacks, from data exfiltration to ransomware,” Sasnauskas said.

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Indicators of compromise (IOCs): how we collect and use them

SecureList

This is the most precious source of intelligence as it provides unique and reliable data from trusted systems and technologies. Kaspersky’s private Threat Intelligence Portal (TIP), which is available to customers as a service, offers limited access to such in-house technical data.

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The Case for Multi-Vendor Security Integrations

Cisco Security

This new integration supports Umbrella proxy, cloud firewall, IP, and DNS logs. This integration enables security analysts to detect threats and visualize Cisco Umbrella data, and also correlate Umbrella events with other data sources including endpoint, cloud, and network. Read more here. Sumo Logic. Read more here.

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Mystic Stealer

Security Boulevard

This is already a notable risk for many organizations due to the use of malware distribution networks and initial access brokers for the distribution of high-severity payloads like ransomware. Prior to this date, in 2021, the domain was registered and hosted by a previous owner, with DNS resolution observed through October of 2021.