Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2020

Security researchers demonstrated that hundreds of sub-domains belonging to Microsoft could potentially be hijacked and abused to deliver malware and for phishing attacks. Let’s consider mybrowser.microsoft.com, it might have resolved by the DNS to something like webserver9000.azurewebsites.net. azurewebsites.net.

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DNS Phishing Advertising Malware 91

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The Roaming Mantis SMS phishing campaign is now targeting Android and iPhone users in Europe with malicious apps and phishing pages. The latest wave of attacks aimed at spreading phishing links via SMS messages (SMiShing), most of the victims were users in Russia, Japan, India, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Iran, and Vietnam.

Phishing 84

Phishing DNS Malware Hacking 84

Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2022

A large-scale phishing campaign leveraging the Anubis Network is targeting Brazil and Portugal since March 2022. A large-scale phishing campaign is targeting Internet-end users in Brazil and Portugal since March 2022. Figure 1: High-level diagram of the ANUBIS phishing network and its components (2020). The Phishing template.

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Phishing Social Engineering Banking Engineering 100

Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2020

Hackers hijacked one of the domains of the Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck and used it for spear-phishing attacks. Then the attackers used the hijacked domain to launch spear-phishing attacks against some of its customers. NS ???????????? Amazon Route 53 ???????????????????? 5/29 ??????????????? NS ????????????? (?) ??

Accountability 92

Accountability Phishing DNS Cryptocurrency 92

Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2023

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DNS 83

DNS Data breaches Hacking Backups 83

Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2022

Ukraine CERT (CERT-UA) warns of spear-phishing ??attacks The Government Team for Response to Computer Emergencies of Ukraine (CERT-UA) warns of spear-phishing messages conducted by UAC-0035 group (aka InvisiMole) against Ukrainian state bodies. attacks conducted by UAC-0035 group (aka InvisiMole) on state organizations of Ukraine.

Spyware 82

Spyware DNS Phishing Government 82

Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2022

The Russian government fears the consequence of data breaches suffered by its organizations or possible interference by third-party nation state actors that could exploit the ongoing attacks to carry out covet cyber attacks.

DDOS 86

DDOS DNS Backups Data breaches 86

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The attacks began with a spam/phishing email containing malicious URL links. The threat actor was also spotted locking the victims out of the network by disabling DNS services, making the recovery even more complex. . In most of the attacks observed by the experts, the spear-phishing email contains a malicious disk image file.

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Malware Ransomware DNS Phishing 83

Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

Trend Micro researchers spotted an elusive threat actor, called Earth Lusca, that targets organizations worldwide via spear-phishing and watering hole attacks. . The first cluster was set up using rented virtual private servers (VPS), it was employed in watering hole and spear-phishing attacks. Both clusters served as a C&C server.

Cryptocurrency 106

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. ” concludes the report.

Phishing 133

Phishing Accountability Advertising DNS 133

Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2021

Some of the phishing emails from the current campaign were sent from IP addresses corresponding to a range that belongs to Powerhouse Management, a VPN service. However, experts found differences in the attachments used for phishing emails, the remote access trojans (RATs) used the operator’s C&C infrastructure.

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Malware Surveillance Phishing Government 104

NopSec

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Do you feel confident that everyone in your organization could identify a phishing email that contained ransomware? In today’s post, we share information with the goal that it will help everyone in your organization protect themselves from phishing attacks.

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Phishing Social Engineering Engineering Healthcare 40

Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2019

This year, security experts at Avast have blocked more than 4.6 The campaign uncovered by Avast aimed at silently modifying the Brazilian users’ Domain Name System (DNS) settings to redirect victims to malicious websites mimicking legitimate ones. Most recently, Netflix became a popular domain for DNS hijackers.”

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DNS Passwords Advertising Banking 71

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The attack chain starts with spear-phishing messages with a.RAR attachment named “12-1-125_09.01.2023.” lnk” (“Request of the Security Service of Ukraine 12-1-125 dated 09.01.2023.lnk”). ” One of the methods of getting the C2 IP address relies on the usage of legitimate third-party services, such as Telegram and cloudflare-dns[.]com.

Malware 87

Malware Spyware DNS Government 87

Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2022

The attack chains starts with a phishing email using a malicious ZIP attachment that contain an ISO image with a loader in the form of JavaScript, a Windows batch file or Visual Basic script. “To deliver the malware payload, the actor registered several malicious subdomains using DuckDNS, a free dynamic DNS service.

DNS 107

DNS Malware Cybercrime Ransomware 107

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Security researchers from the Cisco Talos team uncovered a spear-phishing campaign targeting the aviation industry for two years avoiding detection. Security researchers from Cisco Talos uncovered a spear-phishing campaign targeting, dubbed Operation Layover, that targeted the aviation industry for two years without being detected.

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Malware Phishing DNS Cybercrime 94

Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2021

According to Group-IB’s Threat Intelligence team, the suspect, dubbed Dr HeX by Group-IB based on one of the nicknames that he used, has been active since at least 2009 and is responsible for a number of cybercrimes, including phishing, defacing, malware development, fraud, and carding that resulted in thousands of unsuspecting victims.

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Cybercrime Phishing Banking Telecommunications 93

Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2023

The group often uses spear-phishing emails and messages (Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal) as an initial attack vector. The group uses third-party services and/or resources of Telegram (Telegraph) to determine the IP addresses of C2 and avoid using the DNS subsystem. The cyberspies often use accounts that have been previously compromised.

Social Engineering 95

Social Engineering DNS Accountability Malware 95

Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2021

million customers Adobe addresses two critical vulnerabilities in Photoshop Hamburg’s data protection agency (DPA) states that using Zoom violates GDPR Kalay cloud platform flaw exposes millions of IoT devices to hack Fortinet FortiWeb OS Command Injection allows takeover servers remotely 1.9

Data breaches 98

Data breaches Mobile Ransomware DNS 98

Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2023

Merdoor is a fully-featured backdoor that supports multiple capabilities, including installing itself as a service, keylogging, a variety of methods to communicate with its command-and-control (C&C) server (HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, UDP, TCP), and the ability to listen on a local port for commands.

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Encryption DNS Phishing Malware 80

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

PayPal addresses reflected XSS bug in user wallet currency converter The kingpin behind Jokers Stash retires with a billionaire exit France agency ANSSI links Russias Sandworm APT to attacks on hosting providers French and Ukrainian police arrested Egregor ransomware affiliates/partners in Ukraine The malicious code in SolarWinds attack was the work (..)

Firmware 69

Firmware DNS Data breaches Antivirus 69

Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2023

Twitter confirmed that a security incident publicly exposed Circle tweets FBI seized other domains used by the shadow eBook library Z-Library WordPress Advanced Custom Fields plugin XSS exposes +2M sites to attacks Fortinet fixed two severe issues in FortiADC and FortiOS Pro-Russia group NoName took down multiple France sites, including the French (..)

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Data breaches Malware Mobile Spyware 92

Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2022

“On 18 March 2022, NK News shared multiple malicious artifacts with the Stairwell threat research team from a spear-phishing campaign targeting journalists who specialize in the DPRK. us had stopped resolving; however, from historic DNS resolutions, we were able to identify 142.93.201[.]77 us which impersonates NK News (dailynk[.]com),

Malware 70

Malware DNS Phishing Authentication 70

Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

. “On March 16th I have found an unprotected and thus publicly available Elasticsearch instance which appeared to be managed by a UK-based security company, according to the SSL certificate and reverse DNS records.” ” wrote Security Discovery’s researcher Bob Diachenko. Adobe, Last.

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Data breaches DNS Advertising Engineering 99

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The researchers observed C2 infrastructure relying on dynamic DNS domains masquerading as Ukrainian telecommunication service providers. The attack chain starts with spear-phishing messages, pretending to come from a Ukrainian telecommunication provider, sent to the victims in an attempt to trick them into visiting the malicious domains.

Malware 79

Malware Telecommunications DNS Hacking 79

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Experts devised advanced SMS phishing attacks against modern Android-based phones. Some Zyxel devices can be hacked via DNS requests. Android Zero-Day exploits are the most expensive in the new Zerodium price list. Cyber Defense Magazine – September 2019 has arrived. JSWorm: The 4th Version of the Infamous Ransomware.

IoT 73

IoT Data breaches DNS Advertising 73

Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

. “On March 16th I have found an unprotected and thus publicly available Elasticsearch instance which appeared to be managed by a UK-based security company, according to the SSL certificate and reverse DNS records.” ” wrote Security Discovery’s researcher Bob Diachenko. Adobe, Last.

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Data breaches DNS Advertising Engineering 59

Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

Indeed during the group_a, the main observed delivery techniques where about Phishing (rif.T1193) and Valid Accounts (rif.T1078). From group_b to group_d time frame OilRig started a more sophisticated Spear Phishing (rif.T1193) campaigns within malicious attachments as their main threat delivery activity. Delivery Technique Over Time.

Computers and Electronics 79

Computers and Electronics Penetration Testing DNS Phishing 79

Pen Test Partners

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

There is also now a requirement to have automatic process mechanisms in place to detect and protect personnel against email phishing. IDS/IPS solutions must detect and alert on any covert malware communications being used such as DNS tunnelling. Implementation timeline: Image credit: [link] PCI v4.0

Authentication 52

Authentication Passwords Media Encryption 52

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

According to Martynas Vareikis, Information Security Researcher at Cybernews, threat actors could use the email addresses exposed in the dataset to carry out phishing attacks. Information stored on the server is extremely sensitive. Why did it happen?

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IoT Engineering Passwords Media 114

Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

A review of passive DNS records from DomainTools indicates that in 2013 pictrace[.]com But he said he’s currently unemployed and can’t seem to land a job in what he views as his most promising career path: Information security. Pictrace, one of Jordan Bloom’s early IT successes.

Hacking 198

Hacking Accountability Data breaches Marketing 198

Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2019

Phishing is one of the oldest methods of cyberattacks. People fell prey for these manipulative emails and provide confidential details like passwords and bank information in their negligence. This information is then used for unauthorized and illegal activities, which could have a devastating impact on individuals and organizations.

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Phishing Accountability Authentication Passwords 87

Duo's Security Blog

MAY 10, 2023

With advanced language-based AI tools like ChatGPT growing increasingly accessible, the battle to prevent phishing attacks from impacting users is no longer answerable with just one security solution. Why is layered security essential against phishing? PCI DSS, HIPAA, etc.)

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Phishing DNS Authentication Risk 54

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Germany-based independent security evaluators AV-TEST found that HYAS Protect Protective DNS is the most effective operational resiliency solution on the market today to drive business continuity and continued operations. While businesses’ entire security stacks do matter, it’s impossible to stop all nefarious activity beforehand.

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DNS Architecture Marketing Cyber threats 67

Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

If your VPN includes all DNS requests and traffic then you could be hiding significantly from your ISP. You will eventually be hacked via phishing, social engineering, poisoning a site you already frequent, or some other technique. Now, let’s look at who we’re defending against if you use a VPN. This is true.

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VPN Risk Hacking Encryption 326

Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2019

Like most APTs, Silence uses phishing emails to infect their victims. Ivoke was detected by Group-IB’s Threat Intelligence team in May 2019, when Silence sent out phishing emails purporting to be from a bank’s client with a request to block a card. Within the sound of Silence. New tools and techniques uncovered.

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Banking Cybercrime Advertising Cybersecurity 54

Cisco Security

AUGUST 29, 2022

25+ Years of Black Hat (and some DNS stats), by Alejo Calaoagan. Cisco is a Premium Partner of the Black Hat NOC , and is the Official Wired & Wireless Network Equipment, Mobile Device Management, DNS (Domain Name Service) and Malware Analysis Provider of Black Hat. Umbrella DNS into NetWitness SIEM and Palo Alto Firewall .

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DNS Wireless Malware Firewall 75