SecureWorld News

MAY 16, 2024

Through the CCC, the NSA is sharing its extensive knowledge, threat intelligence, and advanced cybersecurity capabilities directly with organizations across sectors like technology, energy, finance, and more. And judging by the enthusiastic response so far, the CCC's services are poised to be in high demand.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 18, 2020

In the initial phases, the Sunburst malware talks to the C&C server by sending encoded DNS requests. These requests contain information about the infected computer; if the attackers deem it interesting enough, the DNS response includes a CNAME record pointing to a second level C&C server. avsvmcloud[.]com” avsvmcloud[.]com”

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DNS Telecommunications Malware Encryption 75

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 Pharming attacks are carried out by modifying the settings on the victim’s system or compromising the DNS server. DNS Poisoning. Use a reliable DNS server.

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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. Running a reverse DNS lookup on this 111.90.149[.]49 Image: Escrow.com.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 22, 2023

Securing SMB Success: The Indispensable Role of Protective DNS Cyber attacks pose as much risk to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) as they do to large organizations — if not more. Implementing a Domain Name Service (DNS) security solution is the most efficient way to protect your business against a wide variety of attacks.

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DNS Small Business Cyber Attacks Antivirus 59

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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Wireless DNS Education Encryption 69

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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Phishing Cryptocurrency DDOS Internet 217

Security Boulevard

JULY 28, 2021

Akamai engineering has adopted new technology concepts to enhance and expand routing capabilities at the edge. Previously, Akamai's traffic-steering capabilities were mainly focused on DNS-based routing.

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Software DNS Engineering Technology 52

SC Magazine

MAY 3, 2021

Jeremy Brown helped Trinity Cyber develop counter maneuvers for a DNS exploit requiring deep parsing of a certain kind of traffic, deploying it to all clients in less than two days. They developed a powerful new approach to intrusion prevention system as-a-service, delivered through a service edge architecture and patent-pending technology.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 25, 2024

The nature of the SMB needs, security requirements, compliance demands, use of technology, shifting workloads to the cloud, and hybrid work operating models are evolving both compute infrastructure as well as the business reliance on IT. Effective pre-engineered platforms assure this is the case.

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SecureList

MARCH 13, 2024

This time, a similar threat has affected users of one of the most popular search engines in the Chinese internet. However, we know for sure that this server has another subdomain, dns[.]transferusee[.]com Communication with the C2 server dns[.]transferusee[.]com transferusee[.]com/onl/mac/<md5_hash> transferusee[.]com/onl/lnx/<md5_hash>

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DNS Advertising Engineering Internet 101

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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DNS Advertising Engineering Internet 59

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. A DNS C2 channel will commonly establish successful callbacks using UDP traffic that will be under less scrutiny rather than egressing a proxy.

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DNS Penetration Testing Passwords Encryption 64

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

“This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. “Our security team investigated and confirmed threat actor activity, including social engineering of a limited number of GoDaddy employees. ” In the early morning hours of Nov. and 11:00 p.m.

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Cryptocurrency VPN Scams Social Engineering 363

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The list of tools and features included with InsightIDR include: User and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) Endpoint detection and response (EDR) Network traffic analysis (NDR) Centralized log management Automated policy capabilities Visual investigation timeline Deception technology File integrity monitoring (FIM). How Does InsightIDR Work?

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DNS Technology Cybersecurity Data collection 130

Cisco Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

As a proud partner of the Black Hat USA NOC , Cisco deployed multiple technologies along with the other Black Hat NOC partners to build a stable and secure network for the conference. Last but not least, we used Umbrella to add DNS level visibility, threat intelligence and protection to the entire network.

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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. VirusTotal ), network system search engines (e.g.,

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2021

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Password Management DNS Ransomware Malware 57

Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

The APT group targeted organizations in various industries, including the aviation, gaming, pharmaceuticals, technology, telecoms, and software development industries. The researchers grouped the Earth Lusca’s infrastructure into two “clusters.

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Cryptocurrency Social Engineering Media Phishing 110

Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Here's an inside look at what it's like to work at Delphix and balancing family time and leading engineering initiatives from our very own Sonali Sharma. I’m an Engineering Development Manager based in the Delphix India office. How did you get started in software engineering, and what brought you to Delphix? . Oct 06, 2021.

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Engineering Marketing DNS Data privacy 52

Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2019

A superficial analysis of the document content might conclude that this document was intended for individuals working with industrial control systems (ICS) or operational technology (OT).” The malware uses DNS and HTTP-based communication mechanisms. ” continues the analysis. Another tool used by the group is kl.

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DNS Passwords Penetration Testing Social Engineering 81

Lenny Zeltser

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

To increase the chances that the distributed security measures will be in effect, we can use a combination of three approaches: Enforce security expectations using technology to prevent insecure choices or actions. In most cases, these tasks are distributed throughout the organization.

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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. Data backup services. Multiple firewall products. Linux servers. Cisco routers. Netflow data.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2019

Organizations will store their petabytes of “internal security telemetry” on Google cloud platform and use Google machine learning and data analytics technologies to analyze it and scan for malicious activities. so that it can be indexed and automatically analyzed by our analytics engine. Your data remains private?—?it

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DNS Cyber threats Advertising Data collection 81

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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Penetration Testing IoT Engineering Risk 98

Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

Distributed in a ZIP container (a copy is available here ) the interface is quite intuitive: the Microsoft exchange address and its version shall be provided (even if in the code a DNS-domain discovery mode function is available). I do have a MD in computer engineering and a PhD on computer security from University of Bologna.

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Computers and Electronics Penetration Testing DNS Passwords 80

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 18, 2022

Public WHOIS data such as DNS name servers, IP blocks, and contact information. While many of these data types would likely require a direct interaction such as active scanning , it’s still possible to use the results of a previous active scan in a passive analysis, for example, by using a dedicated search engine such as Shodan.

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Penetration Testing Firmware DNS Antivirus 144

SC Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Palo Alto Networks asked a Virginia judge to dismiss a patent lawsuit filed against them by Centripetal Networks, questioning the broad nature of the covered technologies and processes and saying the company has not put forth any plausible evidence that their products are being copied. (Photo via Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images).

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Firewall Artificial Intelligence Media Network Security 63

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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Banking Social Engineering Malware Engineering 142

SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Those data points are then fed into a data lake where a correlation engine identifies risky or presumed IP addresses or possible command and control servers that an organization’s IT assets, (whether a laptop, a phone, or “an IoT-connected coffee pot”) should not be communicating with and blocks them in the real time.

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DNS Marketing Financial Services IoT 58

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

Here’s what part of their current homepage looks like: The SocksEscort home page says its services are perfect for people involved in automated online activity that often results in IP addresses getting blocked or banned, such as Craigslist and dating scams, search engine results manipulation, and online surveys.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

This approach extends far beyond assets with an IP address, however, including everything from certificates to S3 buckets to DNS misconfigurations. Part of the workflow for the offensive team is to continually improve the CAST engine to automate and improve testing and decision-making. Company background.

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Penetration Testing Technology Marketing Engineering 87

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Monitoring infrastructure like Domain Name Servers (DNS) and web servers for malicious activity. Such technologies can protect your most critical assets even if bad guys breach the perimeter. Monitoring domain name registrars, looking for domains with similar characteristics or patterns that may be tied to a threat actor or group.

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Antivirus Software Risk Malware 137

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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Technology DNS Cyber Insurance Insurance 62

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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Computers and Electronics Penetration Testing DNS Phishing 80

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2023

Spear phishing is a highly effective technique as it uses personalization, mind manipulation, and social engineering to exploit human vulnerabilities. Using Social Engineering Methods Social engineering involves the manipulation of people’s psychology so that they respond in a specific way.

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Phishing Social Engineering Authentication Security Awareness 98

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Attack surface management (ASM) is a relatively new cybersecurity technology that combines elements of vulnerability management and asset discovery with the automation capabilities of breach and attack simulation (BAS) and applies them to an organization’s entire IT environment, from networks to the cloud.

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Software Risk Architecture Internet 112