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Who’s Hacking You?

Webroot

For even more tips from Webroot IT security experts Tyler Moffitt, Kelvin Murray, Grayson Milbourne, George Anderson and Jonathan Barnett, download the complete e-book on hacker personas. DNS (Domain Name System) is especially vulnerable. However, cybercriminals can also use legal DNS traffic surveillance to their advantage.

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HYAS Threat Intel Report May 20 2024

Security Boulevard

Weekly Threat Intelligence Report Date: May 20, 2024 Prepared by: David Brunsdon, Threat Intelligence - Security Engineer, HYAS Cyber Threat Intelligence Analysis This week in the HYAS Insight threat intelligence platform, we found a concerning open directory hosting multiple pieces of malware. Malware Analysis 1.

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TeamTNT with new campaign aka “Chimaera”

CyberSecurity Insiders

7z to decompress downloaded files. Once the malware is finished with its “pre-setup,” it downloads the second phase of the attack from its C&C, which includes another bash script (‘run.sh’) along with the Lazagne project, as seen in figure 4. AV TROJAN TeamTNT CoinMiner Downloader.

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Spear Phishing Prevention: 10 Ways to Protect Your Organization

eSecurity Planet

Downloading an attachment would, for example, infect the target device with a virus, which could enable hackers to gain access to confidential data, credentials, and networks. Endpoint security tools like EDR typically include security software capable of detecting and blocking dangerous attachments, links, and downloads.

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New Advanced AlienApps for Akamai ETP and Akamai EAA help streamline threat management

CyberSecurity Insiders

The ETP app is capable of grabbing a range of ETP events—including threat, AUP (Acceptable User Policy), DNS activity, network traffic, and proxy traffic events—and feeding them into the robust USM Anywhere correlation engine for threat detection and enrichment.

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Guarding Against Solorigate TTPs

eSecurity Planet

On February 3, 2021, threat detection and response vendor Trustwave released three additional findings on SolarWinds vulnerabilities. SaveBreach reported SolarWinds was “using [an] unencrypted plain FTP server for their Downloads server in the age of global CDN technologies.” Mail DNS controls. Encryption.

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Black Hat USA 2023 NOC: Network Assurance

Cisco Security

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.