Krebs on Security

APRIL 9, 2024

Microsoft today released updates to address 147 security holes in Windows, Office , Azure ,NET Framework , Visual Studio , SQL Server , DNS Server , Windows Defender , Bitlocker , and Windows Secure Boot. “BlackLotus can bypass functionality called secure boot, which is designed to block malware from being able to load when booting up.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 1, 2021

It is a type of social engineering cyberattack in which the website’s traffic is manipulated to steal confidential credentials from the users. The attackers can also use it for installing malware programs on the victim’s system. DNS Poisoning. It is an online scam attack quite similar to Phishing. A few more tips.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Web hosting giant GoDaddy made headlines this month when it disclosed that a multi-year breach allowed intruders to steal company source code, siphon customer and employee login credentials, and foist malware on customer websites. But we do know the March 2020 attack was precipitated by a spear-phishing attack against a GoDaddy employee.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Crooks were able to trick GoDaddy staff into handing over control of crypto-biz domain names in a classic DNS hijacking attack. Crooks were able to hijack traffic and email to various cryptocurrency-related websites as a result of a DNS hijacking attack on domains managed by GoDaddy. SecurityAffairs – hacking, DNS hijacking).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The TeamTNT hacker group has been employing a new piece of malware, dubbed Hildegard, to target Kubernetes installs. The hacking group TeamTNT has been employing a new piece of malware, dubbed Hildegard, in a series of attacks targeting Kubernetes systems. The malware deploys the XMRig mining tool to mine Monero cryptocurrency.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 6, 2024

Threat Intelligence Report Date: August 6, 2024 Prepared by: David Brunsdon, Threat Intelligence - Security Engineer, HYAS Dynamic DNS (DDNS) is a service that automatically updates the Domain Name System (DNS) in real-time to reflect changes in the IP addresses of a domain.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 14, 2022

The apps stole user credentials and forwarded the messages to the malware operators. Bad actors love social engineering, and even distribute the spoofed websites via Facebook ads. The post What is DNS Spoofing and Cache Poisoning? The post What is DNS Spoofing and Cache Poisoning? appeared first on EasyDMARC.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 9, 2024

The malicious ads are displayed as sponsored results on Google’s search engine page and localized to North America. Victims are tricked into downloading and running the Nitrogen malware masquerading as a PuTTY or FileZilla installer. ThreatDown via its EDR engine quarantines the malicious DLL immediately. dll (Nitrogen).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Security experts at Cybaze – Yoroi ZLab have analyzed a new sample of the AdvisorsBot malware, a downloader that was first spotted in August 2018. As usual, the malware looks like a legitimate e-mail attachment, named as “invoice.doc”. Figure 3 – Piece of VBS script that starts malware infection. DLL Analysis.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Over the last few days, a phishing campaign from DHL and entitled “ DHL Shipment Notification ” has been targeted users worldwide distribution the Muncy malware. Now, the malware is targeting user’s worldwide and has been spread via phishing campaigns. The process flow diagram below shown how the malware works.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 8, 2020

MalwareBytes has somehow won the battle of the best consumer anti-malware offering. Change your DNS to 1.1.1.2, Next, you can consider changing your DNS settings on all your devices to use those by Cloudflare. blocks just malware, and 1.1.1.3 blocks malware and adult content. or 1.1.1.3

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Cisco Security

JUNE 13, 2022

This article is part of a series in which we will explore several features, principles, and the building blocks of a security detection engine within an extended detection and response (XDR) solution. We would need to be smart enough to spot or reverse-engineer what algorithm the machine was following on said data.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2021

Experts defined DirtyMoe as a complex malware that has been designed as a modular system. The DirtyMoe rootkit was delivered via malspam campaigns or served by malicious sites hosting the PurpleFox exploit kit that triggers vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, such as the CVE-2020-0674 scripting engine memory corruption vulnerability.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 18, 2020

For instance, before making the first internet connection to its C2s, the Sunburst malware lies dormant for a long period, of up to two weeks, which prevents an easy detection of this behavior in sandboxes. In the initial phases, the Sunburst malware talks to the C&C server by sending encoded DNS requests. avsvmcloud[.]com”

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This blog examines the escalating phishing landscape, shortcomings of common anti-phishing approaches, and why implementing a Protective DNS service as part of a layered defense provides the most effective solution. Phishing is now the most common initial attack vector, overtaking stolen or compromised credentials.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 18, 2022

Not long ago, it was revealed that T-Mobile had been breached by bad actors who convinced employees to switch their SIM cards to let them bypass two-factor identification — reminding us how effective social engineering can still be. When malware first breaches a network, it doesn’t make its presence known right away.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Security experts recently found notable malware activity affecting devices running Linux that is associated with the Momentum Botnet. Malware researchers from Trend Micro recently observed notable malware activity affecting devices running Linux that is associated with the Momentum Botnet. ” concludes the analysis.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2024

These are the first known mobile malware families linked to the Russian APT. The two malware families can collect data such as SMS messages, call logs, phone call audio, photos from device cameras, device location, and contact lists. Armageddon , Primitive Bear, and ACTINIUM). net, consistent with Gamaredons techniques since 2017.

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Fox IT

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

And how can malware be future-proofed to evade the sophisticated EDR systems that currently exist and are actively being developed? Malware authors need to take execution speed, or other system changes, into account when deploying malware. In times of such an arms race, how does an attacker stay ahead?

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 15, 2022

Symbiote, a new “nearly impossible to detect” Linux malware, targeted financial sectors in Latin America—and the threat actors behind it might have links to Brazil. And this is what sets Symbiote apart from other Linux malware. Furthermore, “Passive DNS records showed that the same IP address was resolved to ns1[.]cintepol[.]link

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2025

Encryption Technologies: Encryption protects data confidentiality and integrity, but attackers also use it to conceal malware, establish encrypted communication channels, and secure stolen data. Social Engineering Tactics: These tactics exploit human psychology to manipulate individuals.

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Fox IT

AUGUST 11, 2022

A recently uncovered malware sample dubbed ‘Saitama’ was uncovered by security firm Malwarebytes in a weaponized document, possibly targeted towards the Jordan government. This Saitama implant uses DNS as its sole Command and Control channel and utilizes long sleep times and (sub)domain randomization to evade detection.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2024

Ukraine’s cyber operation shut down the ATM services of major Russian banks A bug in Chrome Password Manager caused user credentials to disappear BIND updates fix four high-severity DoS bugs in the DNS software suite Terrorist Activity is Accelerating in Cyberspace – Risk Precursor to Summer Olympics and Elections Progress Software fixed (..)

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The first malicious update was pushed to SolarWinds users in March 2020, and it contained a malware named Sunburst. One month later, we discovered interesting similarities between Sunburst and Kazuar , another malware family linked to Turla by Palo Alto. DNS hijacking. December 28, 2020 to January 13, 2021. mail.invest.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 13, 2024

May 13, 2024, CyberNewsWire — Criminal IP, a renowned Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) search engine developed by AI SPERA, has recently signed a technology partnership to exchange threat intelligence data based on domains and potentially on the IP address to protect users by blocking threats to end users. Torrance, Calif.,

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

Security expert Marco Ramilli published the findings of a quick analysis of the webmask project standing behind the DNS attacks implemented by APT34 (aka OilRig and HelixKitten ). According to Duo, “ OilRig delivered Trojans that use DNS tunneling for command and control in attacks since at least May 2016. Leaked Source code.

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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. Similar to FiveHands, the new malicious software utilizes a practicable packer and leverages a value key to decodes its malware payload to create a memory. It also uses the command line reversal “-key.”

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Birsan wondered if malware could be introduced to these projects by creating packages on the public npm repository that matched the names of these local dependencies. Getting the information to his own server from deep inside well-protected corporate networks posed yet another problem which was solved by using DNS exfiltration.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Iran-linked threat actors target IoT and OT/SCADA systems in US and Israeli infrastructure with IOCONTROL malware. Claroty’s Team82 obtained a sample of a custom-built IoT/OT malware called IOCONTROL used by the Iran-linked threat actors to target devices in infrastructure located in Israel and U.S. d/S93InitSystemd.sh.

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IoT Malware DNS Antivirus 107

Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Cisco provided automated malware analysis, threat intelligence, DNS visibility and Intrusion Detection; brought together with SecureX. Malware Analysis, through the NetWitness® integration. Domain Name Server (DNS). Firepower Encrypted Visibility Engine (EVE). Unencrypted network traffic. Voice over IP.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

re network uses at least two free VPN services to lure its users to install a malware-like software that achieves persistence on the user’s computer,” the researchers wrote. “Using the internal router, it would be possible to poison the DNS cache of the LAN router of the infected node, enabling further attacks.”

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2024

Weekly Threat Intelligence Report Date: June 28, 2024 Prepared by: David Brunsdon, Threat Intelligence - Security Engineer, HYAS Recently a Chinese company named Funnull purchased the domain (polyfill.io) and github of an open source javascript library used in over 100,000 websites. Want more threat intel on a weekly basis?

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Through a combination of web protection, application hardening, and more, EP provides businesses with full attack chain protection against both known and unknown malware, ransomware, and zero-hour threats. DNS filtering. The next technology you need to prevent cyberattacks is a DNS filter. Cloud scanning.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 16, 2024

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2020

“Today we released an update for CVE-2020-1350 , a Critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in Windows DNS Server that is classified as a ‘wormable’ vulnerability and has a CVSS base score of 10.0. This issue results from a flaw in Microsoft’s DNS server role implementation and affects all Windows Server versions.

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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.

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2021

During the first week of May 2021, the Uptycs’ threat research team detected a shell script and Gafgyt malware downloading Simps binaries from the same C2- 23.95.80[.]200. On execution of the Simps binary, it drops a log file containing that the device has been infected with malware by Simps Botnet (see Figure 2). 200 (see figure 3).

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