Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2023

is overseen by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), an executive branch agency of the U.S. “We’re always looking at the end malware or phishing page, but what we’re finding here is that there’s this middle layer of DNS threat actors persisting for years without notice.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The hackers were able to change the Domain Name System (DNS) records for the transaction brokering site escrow.com so that it pointed to an address in Malaysia that was host to just a few other domains, including the then brand-new phishing domain servicenow-godaddy[.]com.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2019

. “At this point, we believe this to be an email phishing incident in which an unauthorized third party used a third-party system to generate an email campaign to deliver what we believe to be a banking trojan,” said Dan Higgins , UR’s chief information officer.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

A review of the passive DNS records tied to this address shows that apart from subdomains dedicated to tornote[.]io, In August 2019, a slew of websites and social media channels dubbed “HKLEAKS” began doxing the identities and personal information of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

“Using the internal router, it would be possible to poison the DNS cache of the LAN router of the infected node, enabling further attacks.” That is the same information currently displayed on the 911 website. ” 911 did not respond to multiple requests for comment on this research. in the British Virgin Islands.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

The SOCKS (or SOCKS5) protocol allows Internet users to channel their Web traffic through a proxy server, which then passes the information on to the intended destination. Historical DNS records from Farsight Security show angrycoders.net formerly included the subdomain “smollalex.angrycoders[.]net”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Security firm Symantec refers to these attacks as “formjacking,” which it describes as the use of malicious Javascript to steal credit card details and other information from payment forms on the checkout pages of e-commerce sites.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

This service is actually recommended by the purveyors of the RedLine information stealer malware , which is a popular and powerful malware kit that specializes in stealing victim data and is often used to lay the groundwork for ransomware attacks. The registration records for the website Cryptor[.]biz ” Crypt[.]guru’s

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2022

There isn’t a lot of information about who bought these crypto scam domains, as most of them were registered in the past month at registrars that automatically redact the site’s WHOIS ownership records. A dig into the Domain Name Server (DNS) records for Coinbase-x2[.]net

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