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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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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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Your Web browser knows how to find a Web site name like example.com thanks to the global Domain Name System (DNS), which serves as a kind of phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly Web site names (example.com) into numeric Internet address that are easier for computers to manage. ” SAY WHAT? 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 25, 2023

From there, further research identified a DNS signature not related to Pupy components. Infoblox claims that this unique DNS signature for Decoy Dog “ matches less than 0.0000027% of the 370 million active domains on the internet ” Pupy itself has been seen in numerous nation state attacks and other serious compromises.

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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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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Back in 2008, the late, great security researcher Dan Kaminsky discovered a serious security flaw in a ubiquitous Internet technology: the domain name system, or DNS. Mark Stanislav is a VP of Information Security at Gemini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Qurium analyzes the blocking implemented by four different operators in Belarus Belarus operators use their own infrastructure to implement the blocking Block techniques include transparent web proxies, injection of HTTP responses, stateless and stateful SSL DPI and fake DNS responses. Qurium forensics report: Internet blocking in Belarus.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 8, 2022

email domain providers and many corporate and government entities. 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. Domains receiving emails can compare the envelope of the email and compare against DNS records.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

government said Grichishkin and three others set up the infrastructure used by cybercriminals between 2009 to 2015 to distribute malware and attack financial institutions and victims throughout the United States. . I can not provide DNS for u, only domains.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Summary: A few days ago I saw a post from Alienvault which says attackers are still exploiting SharePoint vulnerability to attack Middle East government organization. The application (incometaxindia.gov.in) was found to be vulnerable as it was using SharePoint as a technology to host its service.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

A sophisticated threat actor, tracked as Earth Lusca, is targeting government and private organizations worldwide as for financial purposes. The APT group targeted organizations in various industries, including the aviation, gaming, pharmaceuticals, technology, telecoms, and software development industries.

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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. PKI is a well-established technology that businesses leverage across various use cases, including: Access control and endpoint protection.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 14, 2022

When we speak of “disruptive technologies”, we often think of it in the positive sense, relating to the development of a technology that changes our lives for the better. Admitting that causality is inferential, there seems to be some progress towards defensive and deterrent actions of organizations as well as governments.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

As first detailed by KrebsOnSecurity in July 2016 , Orcus is the brainchild of John “Armada” Rezvesz , a Toronto resident who until recently maintained and sold the RAT under the company name Orcus Technologies. government said was used to infect more than a half million computers worldwide. In 2014, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Sandworm (aka BlackEnergy and TeleBots ) has been active since 2000, it operates under the control of Unit 74455 of the Russian GRU’s Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST). The researchers observed C2 infrastructure relying on dynamic DNS domains masquerading as Ukrainian telecommunication service providers.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2023

In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. The Volt Typhoon group has been active since at least mid-2021 it carried out cyber operations against critical infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Sandworm (aka BlackEnergy and TeleBots ) has been active since 2000, it operates under the control of Unit 74455 of the Russian GRU’s Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST). The researchers observed C2 infrastructure relying on dynamic DNS domains masquerading as Ukrainian telecommunication service providers.

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SecureList

JUNE 3, 2024

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. However, some of the things the malware authors came up with, such as placing their Python script inside a domain TXT record on the DNS server, were ingenious.

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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

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 met Palantir Technologies where I was introduced to the Intelligence Ecosystem.

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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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SC Magazine

JUNE 22, 2021

An evaluation of 300 small and medium-sized prime contractors highlights how far some small and medium-sized businesses have to go to comply with basic cybersecurity exceptions imposed by the federal government.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 4, 2023

But when I was there, one of the first projects I worked on was auth systems for mostly DNS. And figuring out how we could route sellers’ custom websites to our website, and have the DNS records match up, and handle SSL. Why was WebAuthn such a major technological step in the feasibility of widespread passwordless use?

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 27, 2018

This is borne out by Akamai Technologies’ Summer 2018 Internet Security/Web Attack Report. In response, many leading vendors and government officials are pushing hard for more sharing of cybercrime intelligence. What we have to do is make community-based intelligence actionable,” Shin says.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

The group has targeted a variety of industries, including financial, government, energy, chemical, and telecommunications, and has largely focused its operations within the Middle East. T1094) mainly developed using DNS resolutions (which is actually one of the main characteristic of the attacker group).

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Humanitarian groups, local governments and non-profits will be able to use Cloudflare’s Zero Trust One suite of security tools at no cost, the company announced. The post Cloudflare Targets Security Poverty Line With Free Tools For At-Risk Groups appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 22, 2021

An evaluation of 300 small and medium-sized prime contractors highlights how far some small and medium-sized businesses have to go to comply with basic cybersecurity exceptions imposed by the federal government.

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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.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 30, 2023

DCAP incorporates the Data Access Governance ( DAG ) approach, aimed at controlling and managing access to unstructured data, along with additional tools for classifying the data and analyzing user actions. How do these information security systems differ from Data Access Governance solutions? What is Data-Centric Audit and Protection?

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

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. If your VPN includes all DNS requests and traffic then you could be hiding significantly from your ISP. The Government. This is true.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

The researchers concluded that 911 is supported by a “mid scale botnet-like infrastructure that operates in several networks, such as corporate, government and critical infrastructure.” “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

OCTOBER 6, 2021

After graduating with my bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering, I started my journey as a software engineer with Perot Systems, an IT services provider for healthcare, government, manufacturing, banking, and insurance. What is your favorite piece of technology? Our masking algorithms.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

“Certifications range from penetration testers , government/industry regulatory compliance , ethical hacking , to industry knowledge,” he said. “Some certifications are entry level, and some require several years of experience, with peer references, before getting certified.”

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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

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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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 12, 2021

Examples of such third parties include intelligence gathering run by foreign governments, competitors attempting to undermine your operations. Simply put, tangible assets are physical things like human resources and buildings, while intangible assets are non-physical, for example, data of your clients, technology data, software, etc.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

This article will explore the nature of MSSPs and how they can help businesses, nonprofits, governments, and other organizations have better security with less effort. More integrated MSSPs may create management networks that connect to their clients’ networks using technologies such as software defined wide area networks ( SD-WAN ).

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