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New Mirai variant appears in the threat landscape

Security Affairs

Upon successful exploitation, the attackers try to download a malicious shell script, which contains further infection behaviors such as downloading and executing Mirai variants and brute-forcers.” “The attacks are still ongoing at the time of this writing. “The attacks are still ongoing at the time of this writing.

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ToddyCat is making holes in your infrastructure

SecureList

A connection like this created on domain controllers allows attackers to obtain the IP addresses of hosts on the internal network through DNS queries. Diagram of SSH tunnel creation SoftEther VPN The next tool that the attackers used for tunneling was the server utility (VPN Server) from the SoftEther VPN package.

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How to Prevent DNS Attacks: DNS Security Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Domain name service (DNS) attacks threaten every internet connection because they can deny, intercept, and hijack connections. With the internet playing an increasing role in business, securing DNS plays a critical role in both operations and security. Everything You Need to Know.

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Introducing Secure Firewall version 7.3

Cisco Security

Introduction to Cisco Secure Firewall 7.3. Cisco’s latest release of Secure Firewall operating system, Secure Firewall Threat Defence Version 7.3, addresses key concerns for today’s firewall customers. allows for the fingerprinting of traffic that is using the QUIC Protocol in Secure Firewall 7.3.

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Overview of IoT threats in 2023

SecureList

DDoS ads distributed by month, H1 2023 ( download ) The price of a service like that is driven by numerous factors that determine attack complexity, such as DDoS protection, CAPTCHA, and JavaScript verification on the victim’s side. DNS changer Malicious actors may use IoT devices to target users who connect to them.

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Abusing cloud services to fly under the radar

Fox IT

After obtaining a valid account, they use this account to access the victim’s VPN, Citrix or another remote service that allows access to the network of the victim. This specific document described how to access the internet facing company portal and the web-based VPN client into the company network. Lateral movement (TA0008).

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How to: Basics of Using Safing Portmaster

Security Boulevard

In this guide we look at how to get familiar with using/tweaking Safing Portmaster , an open-source and host-based application firewall available for Linux and Windows machines. Download Portmaster Running Portmaster Running Portmaster is easy; it can be ran from the GUI of Windows or Linux or via the Linux command line.

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