Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 2, 2023

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. This is where Protective DNS comes in. No reliance on match lists, signatures, or patterns.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2019

The activity of the Lyceum APT group was first documents earlier of August by researchers at ICS security firm Dragos that tracked it as Hexane. LYCEUM delivers bait documents via spearphishing messages from the compromised accounts to the targeted executives, human resources (HR) staff, and IT personnel. .

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

Security expert Marco Ramilli published the findings of a quick analysis of the webmask project standing behind the DNS attacks implemented by APT34 (aka OilRig and HelixKitten ). According to Duo, “ OilRig delivered Trojans that use DNS tunneling for command and control in attacks since at least May 2016. Leaked Source code.

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NetSpi Executives

MARCH 19, 2024

Active discovery is performed on all identified assets for ports, technologies, certificates, vulnerabilities, DNS records, etc., This detailed information gathering leads to high-quality findings, allowing us to report only on true positives, with highly documented verification steps and remediation instructions.

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Pen Test

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Introduction As we navigate through the complexities of modern cybersecurity penetration testing (pentesting) remains a crucial practice for organisations and individuals alike. Penetration Testing Distribution: Download an ISO of Kali Linux or your preferred security distribution for penetration testing.

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Hacker's King

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Maltego works by using "transforms" to extract data from a range of online sources such as DNS records, whois databases, social media, and web pages. They enable cybersecurity professionals to conduct reconnaissance effectively and legally, making them an indispensable part of penetration testing and vulnerability assessment.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

Distributed in a ZIP container (a copy is available here ) the interface is quite intuitive: the Microsoft exchange address and its version shall be provided (even if in the code a DNS-domain discovery mode function is available). which according to Microsoft documentation dates back to 2012. WebService.dll assemply version.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The email message contains a pdf document named ”Marine_Engine_Spare__Parts_Order.pdf”, originally prepared from an Office document using “ Microsoft Word 2013 ” and then converted into PDF format using the “ Online2PDF.com ” online service. Malicious PDF document. DNS requests intercepted.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Deploy DDoS Monitoring : Watch for signs of an attack and document attacks for future improvements. Applications and websites can be hardened using application security tools or penetration tests to probe for vulnerabilities or coding oversights. If the organization does not use it, UDP access to port 53 (DNS) should be blocked.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

50,000 DDoS attacks on public domain name service (DNS) resolvers. 553% increase in DNS Flood attacks from 1H 2020 to 2H 2023. DDoS attacks on single networks or websites render them unavailable, but DDoS attacks on DNS resolvers bring down all networks and websites using that DNS resource.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2024

Examples include Users, User Groups, Applications, Application Groups, Countries, IPv4/IPv6 Endpoints, Host DNS Names, and more. Network-Based Rule Objects IPv4/IPv6 Endpoints, Host DNS Names, IPv4/IPv6 Address Ranges, and Networks define source/destination criteria.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 10, 2021

The least common of SQL injection attacks, the out-of-band method relies on the database server to make DNS or HTTP requests delivering data to an attacker. . . . Testing for SQL Injection Vulnerabilities. Also Read: Best Penetration Testing Software for 2021. . Perform Regular Auditing and Penetration Testing.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Server: Provides powerful computing and storage in local, cloud, and data center networks to run services (Active Directory, DNS, email, databases, apps). Domain name system (DNS) security: Protects the DNS service from attempts to corrupt DNS information used to access websites or to intercept DNS requests.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

DNS subdomain scanning is a useful tactic to discover internet-exposed SaaS application portals and their APIs. This can be difficult to track at scale, but at least document who has administrative rights, third-party contractors, integrations, interns, and those with sensitive permissions and access that may not be administrators.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 17, 2024

When creating payloads such as Office documents, .pdf Be mindful of how you implement the password, though, as fully encrypting a document with a password may get the file blocked since it cannot be scanned. If we dig into the documentation, we can get the complete set of information on the non-scannable files (Figure 10).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Attached to the email a suspicious word document was waiting to be opened from the victim. Hash 7ebd1d6fa8c21b0d0c015475ab8c7225f949c13a33d0a39b8c069072a4281392 Threat Macro Dropper Brief Description Document Dropper Ssdeep 384:nFZ5ZtDGGkLmTUrioRPATRn633Dmej0SnJzbmiVywP0jKk:n1oqwT2J633DVgiVy25. Image1: Word Document Content.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

We will group these technical controls into: User Access Controls Asset Discovery Controls Traffic Monitoring Controls Resilience, Maintenance & Testing Controls These tools rely heavily on the effective determination of administrative controls that define and determine the policies that will be implemented through the technical controls.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

This approach extends far beyond assets with an IP address, however, including everything from certificates to S3 buckets to DNS misconfigurations. An application penetration tester by trade, Ilia Kolochenko founded his first cybersecurity consulting firm named High-Tech Bridge in 2007. Company background. Deployment and configuration.

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NetSpi Executives

MARCH 19, 2024

Active discovery is performed on all identified assets for ports, technologies, certificates, vulnerabilities, DNS records, etc., This detailed information gathering leads to high-quality findings, allowing us to report only on true positives, with highly documented verification steps and remediation instructions.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

The core group we’re focused on for the purposes of this group test are products that largely replace the function of an OSINT assessment, an external network vulnerability assessment and some portions of a penetration test. Penetration tests will discover some of these gaps, but also have a few shortcomings.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2019

The story is well documented going back in the past years when one project of MalwareMustDie team was very active to monitor the China origin ELF DDoS’er malware threat. About the Author: Odisseus – Independent Security Researcher involved in Italy and worldwide in topics related to hacking, penetration testing and development.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1999 — The Melissa Virus — A virus infects Microsoft Word documents, automatically disseminating itself as an attachment via email. 2002 – Internet Attack — By targeting the thirteen Domain Name System (DNS) root servers, a DDoS attack assaults the entire Internet for an hour. Using the info, he steals a piece of NASA software.

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IT Security Guru

APRIL 12, 2021

For example, special browser-based applications such as Paliscope to run a mission to document the case, and cross-map the associations of EXIF data to identify locations, and say the concerned actors, at times, right to their own dirty front door – See Fig 2 showing EXIF data acquired from an iPhone. You have been warned!

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NopSec

MARCH 6, 2020

NetBIOS was eventually superseded by Dynamic DNS, and performance further increased with changes to the protocol in SMB v2.0 SMBMap is a handy SMB enumeration utility used in penetration testing! The tool was created with penetration testing in mind. SMBMap was developed to address this gap. Neat, so what now?

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

With user account credentials, attackers had a suite of email, documents, and data at their fingertips. Attackers can steal source code , detection tools, and penetration testing technologies built to fend off the best malicious threats in the world. Also Read: Best Penetration Testing Software for 2021.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 13, 2022

If dynamic DNS updates are also supported, tools such as Invoke-DNSUpdate can be used to create a DNS entry for the new system that points to an arbitrary IP address. A lot of the classes in these assemblies are detailed on Microsoft’s web site in the related SDK documentation.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 25, 2025

How to leverage the PEN-200 simulated black-box penetration testing scenarios for maximal self-improvement and careersuccess. According to the PEN-200 Reporting Requirements , [students] must submit an exam penetration test report clearly demonstrating how [they] successfully achieved the certification exam objectives .

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SecureList

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In June, more than six months after DarkHalo had gone dark, we observed the DNS hijacking of multiple government zones of a CIS member state that allowed the attacker to redirect traffic from government mail servers to computers under their control – probably achieved by obtaining credentials to the control panel of the victims’ registrar.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2023

The malware then uses a kleptomaniacal scheme to harvest database credentials, archive files, log data, or valuable documents that aren’t adequately secured, while establishing numerous Command and Control (C2) channels for persistence. Balada is not an overly shy malware campaign. Remove all unnecessary or unused software.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

DNS attacks : DNS cache poisoning, or hijacking, redirects a legitimate site’s DNS address and takes users to a malicious site when they attempt to navigate to that webpage. Additionally, use a reliable documentation solution to track and record all configuration changes.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2023

You decide to take a look at their DNS cache to get a list of internal resources the user has been browsing and as you look through the list, there are several that you recognize based on naming conventions. Introduction Let me paint a picture for you. One in particular might be interesting: Atlassian.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2025

President Donald Trump granted a “full and unconditional pardon” to Ross Ulbricht, Silk Road creator Pwn2Own Automotive 2025 Day 1: organizers awarded $382,750 for 16 zero-days Subaru Starlink flaw allowed experts to remotely hack cars Two ransomware groups abuse Microsofts Office 365 platform to gain access to target organizations Cloudflare (..)

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