Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

GoDaddy described the incident at the time in general terms as a social engineering attack, but one of its customers affected by that March 2020 breach actually spoke to one of the hackers involved. Thus, the second factor cannot be phished, either over the phone or Internet.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 18, 2022

Not long ago, it was revealed that T-Mobile had been breached by bad actors who convinced employees to switch their SIM cards to let them bypass two-factor identification — reminding us how effective social engineering can still be. So why aren’t more organizations taking advantage of protective DNS?

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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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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 Boulevard

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This blog examines the escalating phishing landscape, shortcomings of common anti-phishing approaches, and why implementing a Protective DNS service as part of a layered defense provides the most effective solution. This staggering figure represents more than 59 percent of the losses from the top five most costly internet crimes worldwide.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2022

A large-scale phishing campaign is targeting Internet-end users in Brazil and Portugal since March 2022. Figure 2 presents an example of an SMS sent to Internet end-users during the ANUBIS social engineering wave. Figure 2: Example of SMS sent during the social engineering wave. The Phishing template.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 29, 2024

At its core, this tactic revolves around gaming the trust users put in reputable internet services, including search engines, and the familiarity they have with online advertising per se. A DNS firewall and a classic antivirus are somewhat underused yet effective security tools that will come in handy.

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 30, 2023

The SocGholish malware distribution network employs social engineering and drive-by compromise to drop malware on endpoints. The VirusTotal passive DNS entry for this IP address showed various subdomains being used. Figure 4: VirusTotal Intelligence Query Figure 5: Passive DNS replications for 88.119.169[.]108

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 26, 2022

Note: This OSINT analysis has been originally published at my current employer's Web site - [link] where I'm currently acting as a DNS Threat Researcher since January, 2021. . In this analysis we’ll take a closer look at the Internet connected infrastructure behind the U.S We’ve decided to take a closer look at the U.S

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Penetration testing can also involve common hacking techniques such as social engineering , phishing attacks , dropped USB drive attacks, etc. Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected to the network, such as security cameras, TVs, etc. Network accessible storage (NAS) devices. Individual computers.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 26, 2022

In 2021, the main attack vector used by this threat actor was credential phishing attacks through emails, posing as Naver, the popular South Korean search engine and web portal. This is done for the purpose of social engineering. Passive DNS data. Figure 3: Decoy content. C2 IP addresses. 213 in September 2021.

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

VPNs encrypt the traffic between you and some endpoint on the internet, which is where your VPN is based. If your VPN includes all DNS requests and traffic then you could be hiding significantly from your ISP. If you log in at the end website you’ve identified yourself to them, regardless of VPN. This is true.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

This instance left sensitive data open and was already indexed via popular IoT [internet of things] search engines. Media giant with $6.35 ElasticSearch is a very common and widely used data storage and is prone to misconfigurations, which makes it accessible to anyone. Why did it happen?

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SecureList

JUNE 2, 2022

Seeing that some variants of their Android malware impersonate a popular messaging app in Asia, it is also likely that malicious APKs are distributed in a variety of ways, including social engineering to convince users to install fake updates for their applications.

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SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

This lets them mount high-quality social engineering attacks that look like totally normal interactions. The companies, whose logos are displayed here, were chosen by BlueNoroff’s for impersonation in social engineering tricks. domainhost.dynamic-dns[.]net. abiesvc.jp[.]net. atom.publicvm[.]com. coin-squad[.]co.

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SecureList

JUNE 7, 2023

MotW is a Windows security measure — the system displays a warning message when someone tries to open a file downloaded from the internet. Roaming Mantis implements new DNS changer We continue to track the activities of Roaming Mantis (aka Shaoye), a well-established threat actor targeting countries in Asia.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

with no internet. Phishing and Social Engineering. Phishing and social engineering are a type of email attack that attempts to trick users into divulging passwords, downloading an attachment or visiting a website that installs malware on their systems. In 2016, the Mirai botnet attack left most of the eastern U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Also read : Best Internet Security Suites & Software. In November 2021, an unauthorized third party called a Robinhood customer support employee and, through social engineering , gained access to the company’s customer support systems. Defending Against RDP Attacks: Best Practices. Examples of Notable RDP Attacks.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Users who receive emails this nature should be aware if they are part of a social engineering campaign. All the network traffic on the machine has now been monitored, but no connections to the Internet has been performed. The malware tries to resolve the DNS: sameerd.net. As shown, the DNS has not been resolved.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Networks connect devices to each other so that users can access assets such as applications, data, or even other networks such as the internet. Similarly, spoofed domain name system (DNS) and IP addresses can redirect users from legitimate connections to dangerous and malicious websites. and similar features will often be unwatched.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

Although Lyceum still prefers taking advantage of DNS tunneling, it appears to have replaced the previously documented.NET payload with a new C++ backdoor and a PowerShell script that serve the same purpose. Our telemetry revealed that the threat group’s latest endeavors are focused on going after entities within one country – Tunisia.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 11, 2023

And yeah, we check us out at whiteoaksecurity.com to various ranges of pen tests, like web apps, internals, red teams, social engineering, etc. So most of our apps are mostly upside tests over the internet. So effectively, it is sent some I think it was XP dirtree which caused a DNS lookup on the collaborator server.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Determine which employees are vulnerable to social engineering attacks. Phishing tools like Knowbe4 and Cofense/Phishme are great training tools, but nothing substitutes for an actual concerted set of social engineering attacks, followed by illustrative technical exploits.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In June, more than six months after DarkHalo had gone dark, we observed the DNS hijacking of multiple government zones of a CIS member state that allowed the attacker to redirect traffic from government mail servers to computers under their control – probably achieved by obtaining credentials to the control panel of the victims’ registrar.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1970-1995 — Kevin Mitnick — Beginning in 1970, Kevin Mitnick penetrates some of the most highly-guarded networks in the world, including Nokia and Motorola, using elaborate social engineering schemes, tricking insiders into handing over codes and passwords, and using the codes to access internal computer systems.

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