Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

PT Monday evening, Escrow.com’s website looked radically different: Its homepage was replaced with a crude message in plain text: The profanity-laced message left behind by whoever briefly hijacked the DNS records for escrow.com. The attacker also obtained free encryption certificates for escrow.com from Let’s Encrypt.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 1, 2021

The Pharming attacks are carried out by modifying the settings on the victim’s system or compromising the DNS server. Manipulating the Domain Name Service (DNS) protocol and rerouting the victim from its intended web address to the fake web address can be done in the following two ways: •Changing the Local Host file.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 1, 2023

For a “normal” connection to a website, a Domian Name System (DNS) finds the IP address for the requested domain name. As I explained in the blog DNS hijacks: what to look for , DNS is the phonebook of the internet to the effect that the input is a name and the output is a number.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In recent months, you’ve likely heard about DNS over HTTPS , also known as DNS 2.0 and DoH, which is a method that uses the HTTPS protocol to encrypt DNS requests, shielding their contents from malicious actors and others who might misuse such information. Ultimately, this DNS privacy upgrade has been a long time coming.

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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 goal of the RSAC SOC is to use technology to educate conference attendees about what happens on a typical wireless network. Domain Name Server (DNS). Cleartext Usernames and Passwords.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Quantum computing poses a potential threat to current cybersecurity practices, which are based on encryption algorithms that can be broken by quantum computers. Director of Information Security, State of Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology; and Toby Zimmerer, Sr. Demand and Delivery Director, Optiv.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 8, 2022

DMARC builds upon the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and the Domain Keys Identified Message (DKIM) technologies to add security and instructions for a specific domain. A public key is stored with the Domain Name System (DNS) for download by any email server receiving emails with the encrypted digital signature. What is DKIM?

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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. A review of the passive DNS records tied to this address shows that apart from subdomains dedicated to tornote[.]io, The real Privnote, at privnote.com. And it doesn’t send or receive messages.

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SecureList

JANUARY 22, 2024

A downloader A completed “patching” kicked off the main payload, with the sample reaching out to its C2 for an encrypted script. With this URL, the sample made a request to a DNS server as an attempt to get a TXT record for the domain. The ciphertext was AES -encrypted in CBC mode.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 17, 2024

Cain and Alexander DeMine Overview Remote Browser Isolation (RBI) is a security technology which has been gaining popularity for large businesses securing their enterprise networks in recent years. This can be due to encryption or even size. We can swap our delivery vector to a ISO image file (.iso

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2022

They can work with up-to-date technology, reduce their workload, work smarter, and improve their performance. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a standard security protocol that encrypts the connection between a web browser and a server. This only takes a few clicks, because an SSL certificate is a text file with encrypted data.

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SecureList

MARCH 10, 2021

After the user starts the program, it changes the DNS settings on the device so that all domains are resolved through the attackers’ servers, which, in turn, prevent users from accessing certain antivirus sites, such as Malwarebytes.com. Updater.exe code snippet containing the encrypted address. transmissionbt[.]org.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 21, 2021

With a VPN like Surfshark to encrypt your online traffic and keep it protected against any security breach, your valuable data isn’t going to get compromised easily anytime soon. Most small business owners consider IP infrastructure as a one-time expense and dont bother replacing it with new technology. Build a cyber security plan .

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SecureList

JUNE 5, 2023

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. The encrypted data is stored inside the malicious payload. To do so, it performs a DNS request to don-dns[.]com com don-dns[.]com

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Similarly, SPA installs a service, such as the open-source fwknop service, on a server or gateway to listen for specific instructions in an encrypted packet. Additionally, these technologies are strongest in obscurity. While we can use this technology on many devices, the advantage is lost on commonly used devices.

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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 malware executable file is placed in /tmp directory with a random name.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Impacted systems included WordPress and DotNetNuke managed hosting platforms, online databases, email servers, DNS servers, RDP access points, and FTP servers. Our Technology and Information Security teams are working diligently to eliminate the threat and restore our customers to full capacity.”

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Intrusion detection system (IDS) and intrusion prevention system (IPS) technologies – often combined as intrusion detection and prevention (IDPS) – have been in use for decades, yet they remain important cybersecurity tools even in the face of today’s rapidly changing cyber threats and complex IT environments.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 23, 2020

As a result, companies are relying on virtual private networks (VPNs) , which establish encrypted connections to enterprise applications over the public internet, to connect their workforce. VPNs are intrinsically designed to be encrypted tunnels that protect traffic, making them a secure choice for enabling remote work.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

DNS controls. Encryption certificates. It’s fairly remarkable that a company can spend millions on all the security technology under the sun and have all of it potentially undermined by one ill-advised post to Pastebin, but that is certainly the reality we live in today. -Cisco routers. Netflow data. Security cameras.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 8, 2021

Next, it would encrypt files on the victim’s system and deny access until they sent a $189 payment to a post office box in Panama. For example, a hospital in Düsseldorf, Germany became infected with ransomware that managed to encrypt its systems. Well, attackers are leveraging today’s technology. What makes this possible?

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

The platform uses the latest software technologies to achieve maximum performance. The cloud technology allows users to get the most of their server resources and further improve their security. SSL Certificates for data encryption The S at the end of an HTTP connection indicates a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). But is this enough?

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SC Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

Just in the last two years, many such simple and avoidable mistakes in securing the application and data hosted in the public cloud have led to massive data and network breaches at large financial and technology firms such as Accenture, Booz Allen Hamilton, Capital One, Facebook, MGM, Microsoft, and Verizon.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

PKI is a well-established technology that businesses leverage across various use cases, including: Access control and endpoint protection. Communication verification and integrity, such as email encryption, digital signatures, and invoicing. Operational Technology (OT) safety and reliability, such as securing smart grids.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 2, 2022

It is a highly demanding activity, which requires time, multidisciplinary skills, efficient technology, innovation and dedication. We have been doing so since 2008, benefiting from Kaspersky’s decades of cyberthreat data management, and unrivaled technologies. Onyphe ), passive DNS databases, public sandbox reports, etc.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2018

In 2015, Europol partnering with several private technology firms announced the takedown of the Ramnit C2 infrastructure. We named this botnet “Black” due to the RC4 key value, “black”, that is used for traffic encryption in this botnet.” ” reads the analysis published by Checkpoint security. Bot-B connects to Bot-A.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The company sells its surveillance technology to governments around the world. His phone did not set the SNI in the HTTPS Client Hello message and it did not perform a DNS lookup for bananakick.net. Citizen Lab believes that the journalists were hacked by four operators from NSO Group's Pegasus. What can this Pegasus iOS attack do?

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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. It is not some stealth technology that makes you invisible online, because if invisible people type on a keyboard the letters still show up on the screen. Now, let’s look at who we’re defending against if you use a VPN.

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Pen Test Partners

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Section 3 Sensitive authentication data must now be encrypted or protected if stored before authorization. Furthermore, technological solutions must be in place to prevent the copy and relocation of PAN data. Disk level encryption is no longer permitted for protection unless it is a form of removeable media (e.g.,

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

This article focuses on helping to prevent cyberattacks purely through technology; though of course, businesses need a combination of technology, people, and strategy to truly become cyber resilient. That being said, security experts advise against relying solely on a single technology or technique to protect business endpoints.

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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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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. 54112" Krong is a proxy that encrypts the data transmitted through it using the XOR function. It protects data with the current user’s password and a special encryption master key.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Technologically speaking, we are where we are because a handful of tech giants figured out how to collect, store and monetize user data in a singular fashion. On the technology front, blockchain systems signal the type of shifts that need to fully unfold. Yet Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies are mere pieces of the puzzle.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

CISA is ISACA’s (Information Systems Audit and Control Association) high-level certification designed for those who audit, control, monitor, and assess an organization’s information technology and business systems. It’s designed for system analysts, security analysts, network engineers, network administrators, and hands-on security managers.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

For example, the 2016 DDoS attack on the Dyn managed domain name service (DNS) caused the DNS service to fail to respond to legitimate DNS inquiries and effectively shut down major sites such as PayPal, Spotify, Twitter, Yelp, and many others. Also read: How to Secure DNS. Types of DDoS Attacks. Harden infrastructure.

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IT Security Guru

APRIL 12, 2021

Another powerful OSINT technology is that of Facial Recognition, which has a multitude of uses for the OSINT Operative. This is a powerful technological medium, which has multiple uses which are only restricted by the imagination of the analyst. Fig 2 – EXIF Data. Fig 4 – Secure OSINT Storage Drive. Conclusion.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 9, 2023

These complex multi-location entities often deploy local networks, virtual computing environments, cloud infrastructure, and a variety of devices that classify into the internet of things (IoT) and operational technology (OT) categories. Some even deploy applications, web servers, and containers.

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