Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2023

. “Successful exploits could allow attackers to monitor users’ internet activity, highjack internet connections and redirect traffic to malicious websites or inject malware into network traffic. These vulnerabilities require an attacker to have your WiFi password or an Ethernet connection to your network to be exploited.”

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Webroot

MARCH 29, 2021

We learned, for instance, that even IT pros could use a refresher on basic password hygiene through security awareness training. Firewalls embed threat intelligence and DNS security solutions are used to both block malware and control internet use. DNS security solutions are one way of addressing this risk.

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SecureList

JUNE 5, 2023

Satacom downloader, also known as LegionLoader, is a renowned malware family that emerged in 2019. It is known to use the technique of querying DNS servers to obtain the base64-encoded URL in order to receive the next stage of another malware family currently distributed by Satacom.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2021

The DreamBus bot has a worm-like behavior that is highly effective, it is able to spread to systems that are not directly exposed to the internet by scanning private RFC 1918 subnet ranges for vulnerable systems. ” reads the post published by Zscaler. “The main component of DreamBus has the ability to spread itself through SSH.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Attack vectors There are two main IoT infection routes: brute-forcing weak passwords and exploiting vulnerabilities in network services. A successful password cracking enables hackers to execute arbitrary commands on a device and inject malware. Unfortunately, users tend to leave these passwords unchanged.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The infection The first detected shellcode was located within the WININIT.EXE process, which has the ability to download binary files from bitbucket[.]org Notably, the Downloads folder, which would normally contain compiled project binaries, contains five binary files: delta.dat , delta.img , ota.dat , ota.img , and system.img.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In October one of the honeypots of the company captured the bot, its downloader , and some bot modules. “Fast forwarded to October 11, 2019, our Anglerfish honeypot captured another suspicious ELF sample, and it turned out to be the Downloader of the previous suspicious ELF sample.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

change DNS settings to hijack the traffic, perform MitM attacks). While analyzing the dual-band D-Link DSL-2875AL wireless router, the expert discovered that a file located at https : //[router ip address ] /romfile.cfg contains the login password of the device in plaintext. download=true. ” reads the security advisory.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

guru’s registration records also are hidden, yet passive domain name system (DNS) records for both cryptor[.]biz Those records indicate the user Kerens registered on Verified in March 2009 from an Internet address in Novosibirsk, a city in the southern Siberian region of Russia. The registration records for the website Cryptor[.]biz

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Tina Peters, the election clerk in Mesa County (Colorado) went rogue and dumped disk images of an election computer on the Internet. They are available on the Internet via BitTorrent [ Mesa1 ][ Mesa2 ], The Colorado Secretary of State is now suing her over the incident. Their NTLM password hash is 9e4ec70af42436e5f0abf0a99e908b7a.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Pink also adopts the DNS-Over-HTTPS ( DoH ) for the distribution of configuration information that’s done either via a project hidden on GITHUB or Baidu Tieba, or via a built-in domain name hard-coded into some of the samples.

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Errata Security

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Tina Peters, the election clerk in Mesa County (Colorado) went rogue and dumped disk images of an election computer on the Internet. They are available on the Internet via BitTorrent [ Mesa1 ][ Mesa2 ], The Colorado Secretary of State is now suing her over the incident. Their NTLM password hash is 9e4ec70af42436e5f0abf0a99e908b7a.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 24, 2023

The installation procedure is to download the TE Pi installer from the TE GUI, connect the Micro SDs to the provisioning laptops, and then use balenaEtcher to install the TE image to the Micro SD. Locate the entry for Raspberry Pi 4 and click the Download – IMG button. Click on Add New Enterprise Agent. bin/bash /configure_te_pi.sh

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NopSec

JUNE 16, 2020

LLMNR is derived from DNS protocol, and is intended to enable hosts on a local network to easily perform name resolution. WPAD is a protocol that probes for a WPAD server hosting a proxy configuration file at the DNS address “wpad.domain.com”. This does not require a man-in-the-middle condition, and can work across the Internet.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2018

“Since early September, SophosLabs has been monitoring an increasingly prolific attack targeting Internet-facing SSH servers on Linux-based systems that has been dropping a newly-discovered family of denial-of-service bots we’re calling Chalubo.” The script would also download, decrypt, and execute whatever Lua script it finds.

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Lenny Zeltser

APRIL 16, 2020

The tool’s documentation explains that SpiderFoot can gather details such as Whois, web pages, DNS, “spam blacklists, file meta data, threat intelligence lists,” and more. Define a username and password you’ll use to log into the SpiderFoot browser interface using basic auth. Installing SpiderFoot Software.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Key takeaways: TeamTNT is using new, open source tools to steal usernames and passwords from infected machines. 7z to decompress downloaded files. Its developer describes the Lazagne tool as an application that can be used to retrieve multiple passwords stored on a local machine. The first stage of the Lazagne component.

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SecureList

APRIL 22, 2024

A connection like this created on domain controllers allows attackers to obtain the IP addresses of hosts on the internal network through DNS queries. FRP is a fast reverse proxy written in Go that allows access from the Internet to a local server located behind a NAT or firewall. The open-source tool icsharpcode/SharpZipLib v.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. ” PicTrace appears to have been a service that allowed users to glean information about anyone who viewed an image hosted on the platform, such as their Internet address, browser type and version number.

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Kali Linux

OCTOBER 12, 2022

image Setting Up To Get Down To Business First thing, download the Kali P4wnP1 A.L.O.A. kali@kali:~/Downloads$ ls kali-linux-2022.3-raspberry-pi-zero-w-p4wnp1-aloa-armel.img.xz We will verify the download as well, by going back to the download page and clicking on the sum link on the Raspberry Pi Zero W (P4wnP1 A.L.O.A)

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 30, 2023

It deceives individuals into downloading a fake update (as seen below) that contains an archive file with an embedded SocGholish JavaScript payload. Figure 2: SocGholish site details Figure 3: SOCGholish HTML DOM Once a site visitor initiated the download of the fake update, an archive file was dropped on the end user’s hard disk.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2018

N051118 ), where the malicious payload was dropped abusing a macro-enabled word document able to download the malicious DLL paylaod. The malware tries to connect to the remote host 149.154.157.104 (EDIS-IT IT) through an encrypted SSL channel, then it downloads other components and deletes itself from the filesystem.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

I want a "secure by default" internet with all the things encrypted all the time such that people can move freely between networks without ever needing to care about who manages them or what they're doing with them. You’re a bank, this is precisely the sort of phishing pattern you should tell people not to fall for!

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The attackers obtain initial access to a system by sending a spear-phishing email to the victim containing a Dropbox download link. The vulnerability is in MSHTML, the Internet Explorer engine. If the victim opens the document, Microsoft Office downloads the script and runs it using the MSHTML engine.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

Credential theft and password spraying to Cobalt Strike. This adversary starts with obtaining usernames and passwords of their victim from previous breaches. These credentials are used in a credential stuffing or password spraying attack against the victim’s remote services, such as webmail or other internet reachable mail services.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 23, 2020

He was concerned that his phone had been hacked he contacted Toronto's Citizen Lab and agreed to let them install a VPN application that would give researchers a chance to track metadata associated with his Internet traffic. His phone did not set the SNI in the HTTPS Client Hello message and it did not perform a DNS lookup for bananakick.net.

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SecureList

JUNE 7, 2023

MotW is a Windows security measure — the system displays a warning message when someone tries to open a file downloaded from the internet. Roaming Mantis implements new DNS changer We continue to track the activities of Roaming Mantis (aka Shaoye), a well-established threat actor targeting countries in Asia.

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SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

We opened the email on an offline system; if the system had been connected to the internet, there would be a real icon for a Google document loaded from a third-party tracking server that immediately notifies the attacker that the target opened the email. domainhost.dynamic-dns[.]net. domainhost.dynamic-dns[.]net. abiesvc.jp[.]net.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2021

The malicious shell scripts used by Shlayer and Bundlore are usually malvertising-focused adware bundlers using shell scripts in the kill chain to download and install an adware payload. Upon installation, the disk image mounts thereby initiating the bash shell script installation. Figure 1: DMG file initiating bash script installation.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2019

The origin of the infection chain is a simple LNK file, a technique originally adopted by state sponsored and advanced actors, designed to download and run a powershell file named “rdp.ps1” from a remote location through the command: C:WindowsSystem32WindowsPowerShellv1.0powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Windo 1 $wm=[Text.Encoding]::UTF8.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Adware, also known as malvertising , is a type of malware that downloads or displays advertisements to the user interface. Users sometimes unknowingly infect themselves with adware installed by default when they download and install other applications. with no internet. Examples of Botnet Malware Attacks. Browser Hijacker.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

Definition, Threats & Protections Public Internet Threats If your enterprise network is connected to the public internet, every single threat on the internet can render your business vulnerable too. These threaten enterprise networks because malicious traffic from the internet can travel between networks.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2022

Microsoft states that multiple news reports have linked the company to the Subzero malware toolset used to hack a broad range of devices, phones, computers, and network and internet-connected devices. Once compromised the system, threat actors drop the Corelump downloader and inject it directly in memory to evade detection.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Over the years, Trickbot has acquired dozens of auxiliary modules that steal credentials and sensitive information, spread it over the local network using stolen credentials and vulnerabilities, provide remote access, proxy network traffic, perform brute-force attacks and download other malware. This module is a simple downloader.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

logins, passwords, etc.), In some cases, the emails were delivered with Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel) or password-protected archives with the documents attached. Password brute forcing; Registry manipulation (persistence); Creating a copy of itself; Process injection to conceal the malicious process. . an invoice).

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

XDR (eXtended Detection and Response) Integrations At Black Hat USA 2023, Cisco Secure was the official Mobile Device Management, DNS (Domain Name Service) and Malware Analysis Provider. It was humorous to see the number of Windows update files that were downloaded at this premier cybersecurity conference.

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