Malwarebytes

AUGUST 13, 2021

When you use a VPN, you create an impenetrable, encrypted tunnel between your computer and your VPN provider, and then join the Internet from one of your VPN provider’s computers. The encrypted tunnel between you and your VPN provider stops your ISP, rogue Wi-Fi hotspots or other interlopers snooping on your traffic.

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Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Cisco provided automated malware analysis, threat intelligence, DNS visibility and Intrusion Detection; brought together with SecureX. The findings report addresses several security topics, including: Encrypted vs. Unencrypted network traffic. Domain Name Server (DNS). Firepower Encrypted Visibility Engine (EVE).

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 29, 2024

At its core, this tactic revolves around gaming the trust users put in reputable internet services, including search engines, and the familiarity they have with online advertising per se. This interference is a major catalyst for double extortion that involves both a breach and data encryption.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

Launched in 2008, privnote.com employs technology that encrypts each message so that even Privnote itself cannot read its contents. These malicious note sites attract visitors by gaming search engine results to make the phishing domains appear prominently in search results for “privnote.” The real Privnote, at privnote.com.

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Hacker Combat

JULY 5, 2021

Further, it also matches the two variants in how the malware executes file encryption and secures command-line disputes. ” Still, unlike FiveHands and HelloKitty, the new ransomware variant relies on a Go-based packer that encrypts its C++ malicious software payload. This malicious software also utilizes Golang to steal data.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Another interesting issue addressed by Microsoft with Microsoft February 2021 Patch Tuesday security updates is a Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-24078. “This patch fixes a bug in the Windows DNS Server that could allow remote code execution on affected systems.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 22, 2024

The group uses social engineering techniques to persuade their targets to open documents or download malware. These lure documents, which are harmless PDF files, are sent to the target, but when they open them the content appears to be encrypted. These targets are approached in spear phishing attacks.

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Google Security

MAY 25, 2023

At Cloudflare, we believe encryption should be free for all; we pioneered that for all our customers back in 2014 when we included encryption for free in all our products. Their technical expertise guarantees they'll be able to scale to meet the needs of an increasingly encrypted Internet," says Matthew Prince, CEO, Cloudflare.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 17, 2024

RBI solutions typically allow the configuration of file upload and download profiles, restricting the types of files that can be submitted or retrieved from websites based on multiple factors such as file extension, size, entropy/encryption of data, signatures, site reputation, and more. This can be due to encryption or even size.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 16, 2022

At least one Google engineer claims that this isn’t a major concern, is intended functionality, and will continue as is for the time being. As per Bleeping Computer , this leakage can include DNS lookups, HTTPs traffic, IP addresses and (perhaps) NTP traffic (Network Time Protocol, a protocol for synchronising net-connected clocks).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

. “On March 16th I have found an unprotected and thus publicly available Elasticsearch instance which appeared to be managed by a UK-based security company, according to the SSL certificate and reverse DNS records.” ” wrote Security Discovery’s researcher Bob Diachenko. Adobe, Last. ” concludes the expert.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

. “On March 16th I have found an unprotected and thus publicly available Elasticsearch instance which appeared to be managed by a UK-based security company, according to the SSL certificate and reverse DNS records.” ” wrote Security Discovery’s researcher Bob Diachenko. Adobe, Last. ” concludes the expert.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 22, 2023

PROS Light on System Resources ( ) Compatible with most Firefox Extensions ( ) "No telemetry" and "Limited Data Collection" ( this could change, given the first con below) CONS Bought by analytics/adverising company, System1, which is the same company that bought search engine StartPage. Nothing’s changed there.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

For instance, included in the Pastebin files from Orvis were plaintext usernames and passwords for just about every kind of online service or security product the company has used, including: -Antivirus engines. DNS controls. Encryption certificates. Data backup services. Multiple firewall products. Linux servers. Cisco routers.

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Chicago CyberSecurity Training

JUNE 26, 2023

Eavesdropping: Public Wi-Fi networks often lack encryption or any protection at all. DNS spoofing and Man-in-the-Middle attacks can redirect or intercept network traffic, send victims to fake login pages, harvest login credentials or deliver malware. Darius J Davis Lead Engineering Consultant [link] Follow us on LinkedIn !

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 15, 2022

The credentials are first encrypted with RC4 using an embedded key, and then written to a file. The data is hex encoded and chunked up to be exfiltrated via DNS address record requests to a domain name controlled by the threat actor.” Furthermore, “Passive DNS records showed that the same IP address was resolved to ns1[.]cintepol[.]link

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

For most implants, the threat actor uses similar implementations of DLL hijacking (often associated with ShadowPad malware) and memory injection techniques, along with the use of RC4 encryption to hide the payload and evade detection. libssl.dll or libcurl.dll was statically linked to implants to implement encrypted C2 communications.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 3, 2023

When people use their browsers in this way, depending on their level of sophistication, they may not understand that they are actually performing a search — and Google is set as the default search engine for many browsers. It generates encrypted traffic to multiple domains hosted on different IP addresses through different hosting companies.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

.” Quad9 is a non-profit offering a free recursive DNS service that does not log user data. It offers additional privacy and security features, including screening for malicious domains and encryption. and Google Public DNS. Other alternatives in the same space include Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1

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SecureList

DECEMBER 2, 2022

VirusTotal ), network system search engines (e.g., Onyphe ), passive DNS databases, public sandbox reports, etc. Such activities include reverse-engineering or live malicious implant execution in controlled environments. Analysts can search those sources the same way as proprietary data.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2022

Figure 2 presents an example of an SMS sent to Internet end-users during the ANUBIS social engineering wave. Figure 2: Example of SMS sent during the social engineering wave. Operators can easily make this configuration through an interface that uses the CloudFlare API for configuring new DNS zones. The Phishing template.

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Google Security

JULY 19, 2022

Posted by Matthew Maurer and Mike Yu, Android team To help keep Android users’ DNS queries private, Android supports encrypted DNS. In addition to existing support for DNS-over-TLS, Android now supports DNS-over-HTTP/3 which has a number of improvements over DNS-over-TLS. In Android 9.0,

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SecureList

MAY 17, 2021

In this article we analyse the technical features of the Trojan’s components, giving a detailed overview of obfuscation techniques, the infection process and subsequent functions, as well as the social engineering tactics used by the cybercriminals to convince their victims to give away their personal online banking details. Bizarro.

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SecureList

JUNE 2, 2022

Seeing that some variants of their Android malware impersonate a popular messaging app in Asia, it is also likely that malicious APKs are distributed in a variety of ways, including social engineering to convince users to install fake updates for their applications. Layout of the encrypted data. x33x44”). Description.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 9, 2023

Intruder uses an enterprise-grade scanning engine to run emerging threat scans for newly discovered vulnerabilities. Intruder Intruder is a cloud-based vulnerability scanner that performs over 10,000 security checks. Results are then emailed to IT and available on the dashboard.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

It’s designed for system analysts, security analysts, network engineers, network administrators, and hands-on security managers. A four-year college degree or regional equivalent, or an additional (ISC)2 credential from an approved list, satisfies one year of the required experience. The four-hour exam includes 106 questions.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 6, 2023

GoDaddy, Network Solutions) DNS service (E.g., Akamai, CloudFront) Certificate providers (E.g., Entrust, DigiCert) IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a Service)) accounts (E.g.: PCI DSS v4.0 PCI DSS v4.0 requires much more scrutiny of APIs – which are a growing aspect of application programming.

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

VPNs encrypt the traffic between you and some endpoint on the internet, which is where your VPN is based. If your VPN includes all DNS requests and traffic then you could be hiding significantly from your ISP. You will eventually be hacked via phishing, social engineering, poisoning a site you already frequent, or some other technique.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

T1094) mainly developed using DNS resolutions (which is actually one of the main characteristic of the attacker group). They begun development by introducing crafted communication protocol over DNS and later they added, to such a layer, encoding and encryption self build protocols.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 27, 2021

Shrink the DNS attack surface with Auth-DoH. In this analogy, the invisibility superpower is DNS over HTTPS (DoH). It’s a new protocol that encrypts the DNS request to keep bad actors from discovering or altering domain names or snooping on users’ internet destinations. My inspiration: Loki , the Marvel superhero.)

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

They supplied the people working on the integration with the products, access to pre-release firmware and a dedicated QA group to talk to the CEO + engineers. For some reason, the Shelly on my garage door is making a DNS request for api.shelly.cloud once every second! The vulnerability is the result of weak encryption used by TP-Link.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The project grew out of discussions between Julian Zawistowski, Andrzej Regulski, and Joanna Rutkowska, and combines their interests and expertise in decentralized computing, computer security engineering, and the economics of networks and governance structures. LW: Is this primarily aimed at enterprises, SMBs or individuals?

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SecureList

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Interestingly, according to our Kaspersky Threat Attribution Engine (KTAE), the keylogger is very similar to another keylogger used in previous Powersing intrusions we reported on and came under the name ‘AdobeUpdater.dll’ In Powersing intrusions, the DLL was fetched later in the intrusion cycle from a secondary C2 server.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

The adversary compresses and encrypts the data by using WinRAR from the command-line. hp<password> = encrypt both file data and headers with password. We observed the use of Cobalt Strike’s C2 protocol encapsulated in DNS by the adversary in 2017 and 2018. The DNS-responses weren’t logged. r = recurse subfolders.

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SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

This lets them mount high-quality social engineering attacks that look like totally normal interactions. The companies, whose logos are displayed here, were chosen by BlueNoroff’s for impersonation in social engineering tricks. domainhost.dynamic-dns[.]net. Note, this is no proof that the companies listed were compromised.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 8, 2023

It can be time consuming to establish these protocols on an organization’s DNS servers, but doing so will provide two key benefits. Email security tools offer features that screen emails for malicious content using antivirus, anti-spam, DNS, attachment, and other analytics.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The vulnerability is in MSHTML, the Internet Explorer engine. Even though few people use IE nowadays, some programs use its engine to handle web content – in particular, Microsoft Office applications. If the victim opens the document, Microsoft Office downloads the script and runs it using the MSHTML engine.

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