Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2023

BIND is a suite of software for interacting with the Domain Name System (DNS) maintained by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC). The ISC released security patches to address multiple high-severity denial-of-service DoS vulnerabilities in the DNS software suite. Then ‘named’ may exit due to a lack of free memory.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2021

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) released updates for the BIND DNS software to patch several denial-of-service (DoS) and potential RCE flaws. SecurityAffairs – hacking, BIND). The post Flaws in the BIND software expose DNS servers to attacks appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Experts at SEC Consult discovered several security issues in various Zyxel devices that allow to hack them via unauthenticated DNS requests. The first issue is an information disclosure flaw via unauthenticated external DNS requests that affect Zyxel devices from the USG, UAG, ATP, VPN and NXC series. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Webroot

MARCH 9, 2021

DNS (Domain Name System) is especially vulnerable. Once the criminal redirects internet traffic to malicious websites or takes control of servers, the damage is inevitable. However, cybercriminals can also use legal DNS traffic surveillance to their advantage. The post Who’s Hacking You? appeared first on Webroot Blog.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Media coverage understandably focused on GoDaddy’s admission that it suffered three different cyberattacks over as many years at the hands of the same hacking group. But both SMS and app-based codes can be undermined by phishing attacks that simply request this information in addition to the user’s password.

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Public Wi-Fi users are prime targets for MITM attacks because the information they send is often not encrypted, meaning it’s easy for hackers to access your data. Hackers use intercepted data to hijack your current session on a website, giving them access to your private accounts and information.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] us , a site unabashedly dedicated to helping people hack email and online gaming accounts. In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. pleaded guilty to running LeakedSource[.]com

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2023

Industrial and IoT cybersecurity firm Claroty disclosed technical details of five vulnerabilities that be exploited to hack some Netgear router models. “Team82 disclosed five vulnerabilities in NETGEAR’s Nighthawk RAX30 routers as part of its research and participation in last December’s Pwn2Own Toronto hacking competition.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2024

Researchers at Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs discovered a new malware family, named Cuttlefish, which targets enterprise-grade and small office/home office (SOHO) routers to harvest public cloud authentication data from internet traffic. The malicious code can also perform DNS and HTTP hijacking within private IP spaces.

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2023

The researchers discovered eight vulnerabilities that impact thousands of internet-connected devices worldwide. The experts demonstrated multiple attack vectors, including the exploitation of flaws in internet-exposed services, cloud account takeover, and the exploitation of flaws in the cloud infrastructure. through 00.07.03.4

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2019

DHS has issued a notice of a CISA emergency directive urging federal agencies of improving the security of government-managed domains (i.e.gov) to prevent DNS hijacking attacks. The notice was issued by the DHS and links the emergency directive Emergency Directive 19-01 titled “Mitigate DNS Infrastructure Tampering.”.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2019

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued a security advisory to warn organizations of DNS hijacking attacks and provided recommendations this type of attack. In response to the numerous DNS hijacking attacks the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued an alert to warn organizations of this type of attack.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Experts at Cisco Talos and other security firms quickly drew parallels between the two mass spam campaigns, pointing to a significant overlap in Russia-based Internet addresses used to send the junk emails. Large-scale spam campaigns often are conducted using newly-registered or hacked email addresses, and/or throwaway domains.

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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 Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2022

“The attack can be performed without user interaction if the management interface of the device has been configured to be internet facing. “By default, this attack is reachable on the LAN and may be reachable via the internet (WAN) as well if the user has enabled remote web management on their device. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2020

An attacker could use $300 worth of off-the-shelf equipment to eavesdrop and intercept signals from satellite internet communications. The academic researcher James Pavur, speaking at Black Hat 2020 hacking conference , explained that satellite internet communications are susceptible to eavesdropping and signal interception.

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Webroot

MARCH 29, 2021

An endpoint DNS solution could have stopped the Trojanized Orion version by refusing to resolve the domain names of the command-and-control servers, again disrupting the infection to the point that no real damage could be done. Every employee’s home network has a different set of security protocols and internet use is unregulated.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Information Gathering is the first stage of hacking/pen-testing in which attacker/hacker try to collect as much information as publically available on the Internet. This means that you can easily access and refer to the information you have gathered at a later time. based on the target technology.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

They will look for dependencies locally, on the computer where a project resides, and they will check the package manager’s public, Internet-accessible, directory. 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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

US authorities have indicted two men for hacking the exchange EtherDelta in December 2017, one of them was also accused of TalkTalk hack. US authorities have indicted two men, Elliot Gunton and Anthony Tyler Nashatka, for hacking the cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta in 2017. SecurityAffairs – TalkTalk, hacking).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2024

CVE-2024-20307 – CVE-2024-20308 (CVSS score 8.6) – Multiple vulnerabilities in the Internet Key Exchange version 1 (IKEv1) fragmentation feature of Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, Cisco )

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Hacker's King

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

DNS record analysis: The tool analyzes the website’s DNS records, looking for clues about the underlying infrastructure. SSL certificate extraction and analysis: CloakQuest3r extracts the website’s SSL certificate and examines its contents for information about the server’s issuer and location.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2020

Our findings show that both Telenor and MPT block websites using DNS tampering. MPT is ignoring the DNS requests to the blocked domains, while Telenor is redirecting them to an IP address outside of the country. Adding this information to the block page would increase the transparency and trustworthiness of Telenor Myanmar.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 4, 2021

We don’t yet know why this happened, but the how is clear: Earlier this morning, something inside Facebook caused the company to revoke key digital records that tell computers and other Internet-enabled devices how to find these destinations online. Kentik’s view of the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp outage. Update, 6:16 p.m.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

Between 2017 and 2019, the APT group mainly used DNS hijacking in its campaigns. The threat actors gathered personal information on minority groups and potential political dissents. “The stolen information is likely to be exploited for surveillance or intelligence gathering on specific groups and or individuals.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2023

While analyzing billions of DNS records, Infoblox researchers discovered a sophisticated malware toolkit, dubbed Decoy Dog, that was employed in attacks aimed at enterprise networks. The researchers pointed out that while the malware is open source, deploying it as a DNS C2 requires a significant effort. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

Russia plans to disconnect the country from the internet as part of an experiment aimed at testing the response to cyber attacks that should isolate it. Russia plans to conduct the country from the Internet for a limited period of time to conduct a test aimed at assessing the security of its infrastructure. ” reported ZDNet.

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Mark talks about how the Internet community can come together ahead of the next vulnerability to make sure the. Mark talks about how the Internet community can come together ahead of the next vulnerability to make sure the mistakes that are evident in the response to Log4j aren’t repeated. . Read the whole entry. »

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Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

A whopping 97 percent failed to use DNSSEC , a domain security protocol designed to address core vulnerabilities in the foundations of the internet itself. ” Hacking campaigns exploiting poor domain name security can be more subtle. . ” Hacking campaigns exploiting poor domain name security can be more subtle.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2023

Milisic purchased the T95 Android TV box to run Pi-hole , which is a Linux network-level advertisement and Internet tracker blocking application. Milisic also devised a trick to block the malware using the Pi-hole to change the DNS of the command and control server, YCXRL.COM to 127.0.0.2. SecurityAffairs – hacking, malware).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2021

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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, botnet). ” continues the report. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 30, 2022

The threat actor can then use DNS hijacking and HTTP hijacking to cause the connected devices to install other malware. One set of C2 infrastructure controlled by this threat actor and used to interact with the Windows RATs was found to be hosted on internet services from China-based organizations. DNS hijacking.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2018

” Once the mobile app has discovered the IP address of the lights, it authenticates with them, receives an authentication token and retrieves information about the device. The experts demonstrated the remote management of the Twinkly lights carrying out the DNS rebinding attack technique. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The attack was launched by a Mirai botnet variant composed of 15,000 bots, it combined DNS amplification attacks and UDP floods. The botnet included Internet of Things (IoT) devices and GitLab instances. “This was a multi-vector attack combining DNS amplification attacks and UDP floods. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2021

Dan Kaminsky was very active in the cyber security community, he was a regular speaker at major cybersecurity and hacking conferences, including Black Hat and DEFCON. He is best known for his study on DNS cache poisoning and for his investigation into the Sony Rootkit attacks. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Kaminsky).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The daemon connects to Circle and Netgear to obtain version information and updates to the circled daemon and its filtering database. “This daemon connects to Circle and Netgear to obtain version information and updates to the circled daemon and its filtering database. .” SecurityAffairs – hacking, SOHO).

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