eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 8, 2022

email domain providers and many corporate and government entities. The signature-based email authentication technique called DKIM merges the specifications for domain keys and identified-internet-mail specifications. Domains receiving emails can compare the envelope of the email and compare against DNS records. What is DKIM?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The group already targeted in the past the Kuwait government, he also carried out attacks against shipping and transportation organizations. “The Snugy backdoor uses a DNS tunneling channel to run commands on the compromised server.

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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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SecureList

JUNE 3, 2024

The common methods for analyzing an iOS mobile infection are either to examine an encrypted full iOS backup or to analyze the network traffic of the affected device. The code and networking IoCs (Indicators of Compromise) overlap with the Windows samples described by ESET that were used in attacks against government entities in Guyana.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 12, 2018

The rapid adoption has been driven by a combination of ever more visible browser warnings (it was Chrome and Firefox's changes which prompted the aforementioned tipping point post), more easily accessible certificates via both Let's Encrypt and Cloudflare and a growing awareness of the risks that unencrypted traffic presents. DNS Hijacking.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The Internet as we know it operates within the service-oriented paradigm, which heavily favors providers over users. This makes Wildland something akin to a file-based Internet that you can browse and manage using Finder, Thunar, Konqueror or any other file browser of your choice.

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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. Now let's try the mobile app: What's the encryption story there? " It means "this is private."

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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. The Government. If you log in at the end website you’ve identified yourself to them, regardless of VPN.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Thales and PrimeKey are partnering to offer a hybrid approach to securing PKI key management which can assist modern industries that are looking for a unified PKI governance solution. Communication verification and integrity, such as email encryption, digital signatures, and invoicing.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The company sells its surveillance technology to governments around the world. 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.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2019

Security expert uncovered a DNS hijacking campaign targeting organizations in various industries worldwide and suspects Iranian APT groups. According to the experts, the campaign is carried out, with “moderate confidence,” by APT groups linked to the Iranian Government. ” reads the report published by FireEye.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Onyphe ), passive DNS databases, public sandbox reports, etc. Those operations, tools or systems include, but are not limited to, honeypots [3] , sinkholing [4] , internet scanning and some specific behavioral detection methods from endpoint and network detection products. VirusTotal ), network system search engines (e.g.,

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

These events can occur accidentally and even within a corporate network; however, intentional attacks on internet-facing resources are far more common. Also read: How to Secure DNS. DNS Flood: The attacking machines send spoofed DNS requests at a high packet rate to overwhelm the DNS server and shut down the domain.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 9, 2023

The largest businesses, government agencies, non-profit corporations, universities, and other similar sized organizations qualify as enterprises.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Targets include high-profile organizations: namely, government entities located both within those countries and abroad. We found multiple archives like this with file names of government entities linked to Myanmar. The vulnerability is in MSHTML, the Internet Explorer engine. FinSpy: analysis of current capabilities.

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IT Security Guru

APRIL 12, 2021

It is here when we add the fifth dimension in the form of OSINT, that we see the clear advantage of an extra layer of Intelligence which is derived from traversing and scraping the Internet open sources. These snippets may take the form of Data Leaks , P2P Communications , Metadata extractions , GPRS and EXIF image associated data.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 28, 2022

Where the Federal government goes, other parts of the private sector follow. So it was good to see that in response to last May’s Executive Order 14028 , the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a memo Wednesday outlining a new strategy for moving the federal government toward a zero trust cybersecurity posture.

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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). Endpoint: Enables access for human users and computer services and commonly includes PCs, laptops, Internet of Things (IoT), and operational technology (OT).

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Secure web gateway (SWG) solutions help keep enterprise networks from falling victim to ransomware , malware , and other threats carried by internet traffic and malicious websites. Secure web gateways, then, provide fast, secure access to the Internet and SaaS, making digital business a safe and productive experience.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 22, 2022

That is, most of our critical infrastructure is not under federal government authority and not subject to its strict security controls. These private sector businesses include shopping centers, hospitals, banks, farms, factories, oil and gas, and mass transit, but also big IT services like internet providers (e.g.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

For critical cloud security tools, Forcepoint’s CASB products address Cloud Governance for application visibility and risk assessment, Cloud Audit & Protection for real-time activity monitoring and analytics, and other use cases like DLP, discovery and more. Governance and compliance reporting for OAuth-enabled apps accessing MS365.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

with no internet. Targeting victims over the phone, vishing is the use of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), technical jargon, and ID spoofing to trick a caller into revealing sensitive information. Other forms of ransomware threaten to publicize sensitive information within the encrypted data. Browser Hijacker. RAM Scraper.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 27, 2022

In the current threat environment, the Federal Government can no longer depend on conventional perimeter-based defenses to protect critical systems and data,” Young wrote. “A In addition, enterprise applications will be tested internally and externally and made available in a secure manner over the internet. “A

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

This resulted in the deployment of a custom backdoor, named Sunburst, on the networks of more than 18,000 SolarWinds customers, including many large corporations and government bodies, in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Ransomware encrypting virtual hard disks. The vulnerabilities are being exploited by RansomExx.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

Be it advanced locks, encryption barriers, or deleted and unknown content, the UFED (Universal Forensic Extraction Device) can extract physical and logical data. Available as a free and open-source tool, Xplico’s primary objective is to extract application data from an internet traffic capture.

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SecureList

MAY 26, 2021

70% of Internet user computers in the EU experienced at least one Malware-class attack. Successful exploitation of any of them can cause infection of the system where the platform is installed (mostly, enterprise and government PCs). The statistics in this report cover the period from May 2020 to April 2021, inclusive. Main figures.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

This resulted in the deployment of a custom backdoor, named Sunburst, on the networks of more than 18,000 SolarWinds customers, including many large corporations and government bodies, in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. One of those Fobushell samples was identical to another we previously identified on a Zebrocy C2 server.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2022

This new integration supports Umbrella proxy, cloud firewall, IP, and DNS logs. The solution offers on-demand hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity, integrated network and security services, end-to-end visibility, controls and governance. They include various items like DKIM key inspections, DNS Resource Records and more.

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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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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

I first met Dan when he was literally saving the world; okay, at least saving the internet as we know it today by disclosing to the major ISPs in the world a flaw he’d found in the Domain Name System or DNS. Dan found a flaw that could have crippled the internet. We've been experimenting now with with ml.

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SecureList

JANUARY 28, 2021

From the rise of remote working and the global shift in consumer habits to huge profits booked by internet entertainers, we are witnessing how overwhelmingly important the connected infrastructure has become for the daily functioning of society. How are governments and enterprises going to react to this in 2021?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

Criminals used UPX packer to protect malware code written in Go and a RSA public certificate is hardcoded inside malware to encrypt all user’s target files. This finding results in a simple “key” to encrypt all the infected victims. However, the RSA public key used to encrypt the target files is static and hardcoded inside ransomware.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1988 — The Morris Worm — Robert Morris creates what would be known as the first worm on the Internet. government websites in 1998 and is sentenced to 18 months in prison in 2001. 2002 – Internet Attack — By targeting the thirteen Domain Name System (DNS) root servers, a DDoS attack assaults the entire Internet for an hour.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

Criminals used UPX packer to protect malware code written in Go and a RSA public certificate is hardcoded inside malware to encrypt all user’s target files. This finding results in a simple “key” to encrypt all the infected victims. However, the RSA public key used to encrypt the target files is static and hardcoded inside ransomware.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

PseudoManuscrypt doesn’t target particular companies or industries, but it has been observed that industrial and government organizations, including enterprises in the military-industrial complex and research laboratories, are the most significant victims. It uses a single-byte XOR encryption key to receive URLs from the control center.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

One example: too many are in the dark about website encryption — 61% of world politicians’ websites aren’t HTTPS-secured. Nearly half of Americans (49%) don’t trust the federal government to protect their data, according to Pew Research Center. However, it appears lawmakers aren’t prepared for this reality.

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