SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

"Preparing for a Post-Quantum World" is the topic of a panel presentation at SecureWorld Denver on September 19, and with good reason. Quantum computing poses a potential threat to current cybersecurity practices, which are based on encryption algorithms that can be broken by quantum computers.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2022

A large-scale phishing campaign is targeting Internet-end users in Brazil and Portugal since March 2022. Figure 2 presents an example of an SMS sent to Internet end-users during the ANUBIS social engineering wave. As observed, criminals are using the Let’s Encrypt CA to create valid HTTPs certificates.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The Mylobot malware includes more than 1,000 hard-coded and encrypted domain names, any one of which can be registered and used as control networks for the infected hosts. BitSight researchers found significant overlap in the Internet addresses used by those domains and a domain called BHproxies[.]com. com on Mar.

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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.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

It comes equipped with a built-in TOR network tunnel for communication with command servers, along with update and delivery functionality through trusted services such as GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket, all using custom encrypted archives. The action of these tasks is run of PowerShell loader script.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2018

The communications are not encrypted, however the WiFi password is sent encrypted during set up (albeit trivial to decrypt).” “As the communications are not encrypted, it is simple to Man-in-the-Middle the traffic and analyse the API.” ” reads the analysis published by MWR InfoSecurity.

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Pen Test Partners

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

At present the scheme is running against v3.2.1. Section 3 Sensitive authentication data must now be encrypted or protected if stored before authorization. Disk level encryption is no longer permitted for protection unless it is a form of removeable media (e.g., In March 2022, the PCI Council released the long-anticipated v4.0.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. Or are they just the same old risks we've always had with data stored on the internet?

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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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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Brute-force attacks on services that use SSH, a more advanced protocol that encrypts traffic, can yield similar outcomes. User files were encrypted, with the device’s interface displaying a ransom note demanding payment of 0.03 DNS changer Malicious actors may use IoT devices to target users who connect to them.

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SecureList

JUNE 2, 2022

On January 27, we delivered a joint presentation with TeamT5 and ITOCHU Corporation at Japan Security Analyst Conference (JSAC) to provide an update on the actor’s latest activities. Layout of the encrypted data. Packets exchanged with the C2 server contain a header (described in the next table) followed by AES-encrypted data.

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SC Magazine

MAY 19, 2021

Visitors crowd a cloud computing presentation at the CeBIT technology trade fair on March 2, 2011 in Hanover, Germany. Other standards to consider are the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Controls, FedRAMP, and the Cloud Security Alliance’s Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM). Sean Gallup/Getty Images).

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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. 491e0d776f01f102d36155a46f1a8e3c Ant Capital Presentation (Azure Protected).docx.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Should the vulnerability be present, an attacker might run arbitrary code by forcing the application or server to log a specific string. In this blog, we present an overview of how you can mitigate the risk of this vulnerability exploitation with McAfee Enterprise solutions. CVE-2021-44228 – Apache Releases Log4j Version 2.15.0

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

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. This specific document described how to access the internet facing company portal and the web-based VPN client into the company network. r = recurse subfolders.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 23, 2023

When an organization sets up SPF, it helps Internet Service Providers (ISPs), email security vendors, and other email providers to validate an organization’s email communication and distinguish authorized communications from spoofed emails or phishing attacks attempting to impersonate that domain.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2021

We have observed malicious binaries use openssl with base64, Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), CBC (Cipher Block Chaining) to thwart security scanners in the format as shown below: openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -d -A -base64 -pass pass:<> Curl. Bash scripts invoking encrypted Zip file. Bash scripts decoding an encrypted blob.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

When the internet arrived, the network added a firewall to protect networks and users as they connected to the world wide web. The internet of things (IoT), operations technology (OT), and the industrial internet of things (IIoT) also now connect to networks.

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Vipre

JANUARY 22, 2021

Cybercriminals have invested heavily in online attacks and for obvious reasons — most businesses rely on the internet for daily business applications. Note that each such architecture has significant flaws: Full Proxy : For Full Proxy to work, all encrypted web traffic must be decrypted and analyzed by the proxy. The VIPRE Approach.

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Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Cisco Secure supports the NOC operations with DNS visibility and architecture intelligence ( Cisco Umbrella and Cisco Umbrella Investigate ) and automated malware analysis and threat intelligence ( Cisco Secure Malware Analytics (Threat Grid) , backed by Cisco Talos Intelligence and Cisco SecureX ). The other half is Clarity for iOS.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

You can view our report on the new version here , together with a video presentation of our findings. The vulnerability is in MSHTML, the Internet Explorer engine. The attack is estimated to have resulted in the encryption of files belonging to around 60 Kaseya customers using the on-premises version of the platform.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2021

It is linked to a vulnerability in DNS resolvers that allows amplification attacks on authoritative DNS servers. Attacks on DNS servers are dangerous because all the resources they serve become unavailable, regardless of their size and level of DDoS protection. The bug was named TsuNAME.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The PlugX families we observed used DNS [ T1071.001 ] [ T1071.004 ] as the transport channel for C2 traffic, in particular TXT queries. Another clue that helped us was the use of DNS tunneling by Winnti which we discovered traces of in memory. The hardcoded 208.67.222.222 resolves to a legitimate OpenDNS DNS server.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Recent years presented a torrent of research showing how vulnerable RDP systems are for organizations not taking additional cybersecurity precautions. Also read : Best Internet Security Suites & Software. Meanwhile, the suspect server was connected to the CDOT domain with an administrator account and the internet.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

These adware strains often present themselves as a video, banner, full screen, or otherwise pop-up nuisance. 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. Backdoors.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Step-by-step of Muncy malware is presented in Figure 4. Furthermore, the digital certificate presents within this executable also contribute to the high entropy in the.text section. We can easily observe that in the file overlay offsets presented below. An encrypted snippet of code, for instance, has high entropy associated.

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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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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

We carefully surveyed the field and present below our recommendations for the top CASB vendors and industry-wide wisdom for buyers. Security functionality for DLP, discovery, encryption, and digital rights management. Encryption at rest or managed in real-time with certified FOPS 140-2 Level 3 KMS. Encryption and tokenization.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 12, 2022

The CA will issue challenges (DNS or HTTPS) requiring the agent to take an action that demonstrates control over said domain(s). Back in 2015, when Let’s Encrypt was was just emerging as a certificate-authority force, Josh Aas, the ISRG's executive director said that "Encryption should be the default for the web. What is ACME?

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Kali Linux

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

In Secure Kali Pi (2022) , the first blog post in the Raspberry Pi series, we set up a Raspberry Pi 4 with full disk encryption. 4.2.2.2 # DNS servers to pass (not really required for our needs) opt lease 600 # 10 minute DHCP lease And we create our hook which copies in our DHCP config, /etc/initramfs-tools/hooks/udhcpd : #!

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

We appreciate Iain Thompson of The Register , for taking time to attend a NOC presentation and tour the operations. 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.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Mashable: Move over Heartbleed and welcome to shell shock, the latest security threat to hit the internet. used vulnerabilities in sendmail and the fingerd protocol to construct unintentionally what would become the first internet worm. Really, never roll your own encryption. And it's a doozy program. What’s a worm?

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Mashable: Move over Heartbleed and welcome to shell shock, the latest security threat to hit the internet. used vulnerabilities in sendmail and the fingerd protocol to construct unintentionally what would become the first internet worm. Really, never roll your own encryption. And it's a doozy program. What’s a worm?

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SecureList

MAY 26, 2021

70% of Internet user computers in the EU experienced at least one Malware-class attack. On average, 13.70% of Internet user computers in the EU experienced at least one Malware-class attack during the reporting period. The statistics in this report cover the period from May 2020 to April 2021, inclusive. Main figures.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

Michael Coden, Associate Director, Cybersecurity, MIT Sloan, along with Michael Stonebreaker will present this novel concept at RSAC 2023. It was on a project that Dan Kaminsky presented at Discourse 2019. Dan found a flaw that could have crippled the internet. One of the last things Dan presented was a time machine.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

Although Lyceum still prefers taking advantage of DNS tunneling, it appears to have replaced the previously documented.NET payload with a new C++ backdoor and a PowerShell script that serve the same purpose. Finally, we present similarities with known TTPs of the MuddyWater group and attribute this campaign to them with medium confidence.

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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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