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.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 31, 2024

It was DNS. It’s always DNS: Government ministry denies hackers hacked its network infrastructure. The post Russian Internet Outage: DNSSEC Oops or Ukraine Hack? appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2024

The flaw affects multiple D-Link NAS devices, including models DNS-340L, DNS-320L, DNS-327L, and DNS-325. Netsecfish reported that over 92,000 Internet-facing devices are vulnerable. The flaw impacts the following devices: DNS-320L Version 1.11, Version 1.03.0904.2013, Version 1.01.0702.2013 DNS-325 Version 1.01

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 6, 2024

Threat Intelligence Report Date: August 6, 2024 Prepared by: David Brunsdon, Threat Intelligence - Security Engineer, HYAS Dynamic DNS (DDNS) is a service that automatically updates the Domain Name System (DNS) in real-time to reflect changes in the IP addresses of a domain.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 7, 2024

HYAS Protect protective DNS uses advanced data analytics to proactively block cyber threats, a feature unavailable in legacy systems relying on static DNS filtering. AV-TEST , one of the cybersecurity industry’s most trusted evaluators, rates HYAS as the most effective protective DNS solution on the market. What Is HYAS Protect?

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 11, 2022

As their cities suffered more intense bombardment by Russian military forces this week, Ukrainian Internet users came under renewed cyberattacks, with one Internet company providing service there saying they blocked ten times the normal number of phishing and malware attacks targeting Ukrainians.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2024

Cisco addressed multiple vulnerabilities in IOS and IOS XE software that can be exploited to trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. Cisco this week released patches to address multiple IOS and IOS XE software vulnerabilities. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can trigger the flaw to cause an affected device to reload.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2023

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) addressed three denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities in the DNS software suite BIND. The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) released security updates to address three denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities in the DNS software suite BIND.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2024

A China-linked APT, tracked as StormBamboo, compromised an internet service provider (ISP) to poison software update mechanisms with malware. The threat actors targeted insecure software update mechanisms to install malware on macOS and Windows victim machines. The company linked the attacks to StormBamboo APT group.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 4, 2022

After a good start, the Internet-enabled, technological revolution we are living through has hit some bumps in the road. To celebrate Independence Day we want to draw your attention to five technologies that could improve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness on the Internet. DNS encryption.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2021

On the off chance you were looking for more security to-dos from Microsoft today…the company released software updates to plug more than 82 security flaws in Windows and other supported software. “There is the outside chance this could be wormable between DNS servers,” warned Trend Micro’s Dustin Childs.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 20, 2023

per year Tenable Tenable One, an exposure management platform Identifies assets using DNS records, IP addresses, and ASN, and provides over 180 metadata fields Tenable Attack Surface Management, Add-on for Splunk ISO/IEC 27001/27002 $5,290 – $15,076.50 Pricing is dependent on the quantity of Internet-facing assets.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 6, 2022

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Intuit phish says “We have put a temporary hold on your account” The Quad commits to strengthening cybersecurity in software, supply chains Double-whammy attack follows fake Covid alert with a bogus bank call Microsoft Office zero-day “Follina”—it’s not a bug, it’s a feature! (It’s

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2018

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) announced the presence of a serious flaw in the BIND DNS software that can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The “deny-answer-aliases” feature is was implemented to help recursive server operators protect users against DNS rebinding attacks.

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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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SecureList

DECEMBER 18, 2020

An unknown attacker, referred to as UNC2452 or DarkHalo planted a backdoor in the SolarWinds Orion IT software. For instance, before making the first internet connection to its C2s, the Sunburst malware lies dormant for a long period, of up to two weeks, which prevents an easy detection of this behavior in sandboxes. avsvmcloud[.]com”

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

based Internet address for more than a decade — simply vanished. Like other anonymity networks marketed largely on cybercrime forums online, VIP72 routes its customers’ traffic through computers that have been hacked and seeded with malicious software. The domain Vip72[.]org

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Malwarebytes

MAY 4, 2022

Researchers have found a vulnerability in a popular C standard library in IoT products that could allow attackers to perform DNS poisoning attacks against a target device. These functions can be called upon when needed so they do not have to be included in the code of the software that uses it. DNS poisoning. The vulnerability.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Microsoft today released updates to fix at least 85 security holes in its Windows operating systems and related software, including a new zero-day vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows that is being actively exploited. The lack of Exchange patches leaves a lot of Microsoft customers exposed.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

DNS Spoofing DNS (Domain Name System) is like the internet’s phone book, translating domain names into IP addresses. Hackers can manipulate DNS settings to redirect your internet traffic to malicious websites, even if you entered the correct web address.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2021

Microsoft today released updates to patch at least 116 security holes in its Windows operating systems and related software. ” Another concerning critical vulnerability in the July batch is CVE-2021-34494 , a dangerous bug in the Windows DNS Server that earned a CVSS score (severity) of 9.8 out of a possible 10.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 9, 2024

Although to be fair, it would be tough for Microsoft to eclipse the number of vulnerabilities fixed in this month’s patch batch — a record 147 flaws in Windows and related software. Yes, you read that right. “As far as I can tell, it’s the largest Patch Tuesday release from Microsoft of all time.”

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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. Cybersecurity Tips for Individuals and Businesses.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 14, 2020

Microsoft today released updates to plug a whopping 123 security holes in Windows and related software, including fixes for a critical, “wormable” flaw in Windows Server versions that Microsoft says is likely to be exploited soon.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2024

Ukraine’s cyber operation shut down the ATM services of major Russian banks A bug in Chrome Password Manager caused user credentials to disappear BIND updates fix four high-severity DoS bugs in the DNS software suite Terrorist Activity is Accelerating in Cyberspace – Risk Precursor to Summer Olympics and Elections Progress Software fixed (..)

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Google Security

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Posted by Abhishek Arya, Chrome Security team Open source software is the foundation of many modern software products. Some interns chose to write fuzzers for Android and Chrome, which are open source projects that billions of internet users rely on.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 6, 2021

Forescout Research Labs last month released a 14-page white paper and a 47-page research report detailing 33 vulnerabilities affecting millions of Internet of Things (IoT), Operational Technology (OT), and IT devices. The four TCP/IP protocol layers are the link layer, internet layer , transport layer, and application layer.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

A cybercrook who has been setting up websites that mimic the self-destructing message service privnote.com accidentally exposed the breadth of their operations recently when they threatened to sue a software company. Other Privnote phishing domains that also phoned home to the same Internet address as pirwnote[.]com com , privnate[.]com

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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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Malwarebytes

APRIL 13, 2021

A set of vulnerabilities has been found in the way a number of popular TCP/IP stacks handle DNS requests. Yes, the researchers found 9 DNS-related vulnerabilities that have the potential to allow attackers to take targeted devices offline or to gain control over them. Basically, you could say DNS is the phonebook of the internet.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 13, 2022

Microsoft on Tuesday released updates to fix roughly 120 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software. While this won’t stop exploitation from attackers inside the local network, it will prevent new attacks originating from the Internet.” National Security Agency (NSA).

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The problem: Zoom recently patched a flaw that affected three of its Windows-facing software products: Zoom Desktop Client for Windows, Zoom VDI Client for Windows, and Zoom Meeting SDK for Windows. It bypasses Internet Shortcut Files’ security measures. Patching the software to a non-vulnerable version. Enabling logging.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The page listed the correct time and date of the funeral service, which it claimed could be streamed over the Internet by following a link that led to a page requesting credit card information. net for DNS. com , but historical DNS records show this website also used DNS servers from webhostbd[.]net. net DNS servers).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 18, 2022

By increasing visibility into DNS traffic, CISOs can detect, block, and respond to incidents more quickly as well as use this data to institute new controls and increase overall resiliency. Once this communication is blocked, the malicious software essentially becomes inert. The issue likely comes down to awareness.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2020

From February’s piece: At issue is a problem known as “ namespace collision ,” a situation where domain names intended to be used exclusively on an internal company network end up overlapping with domains that can resolve normally on the open Internet. Further reading: Mitigating the Risk of DNS Namespace Collisions (PDF).

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 21, 2021

DNSpooq is the name the researchers gave to a collection of seven vulnerabilities they found in dnsmasq, an open-source DNS forwarding software in common use. DNSpooq includes some DNS cache poisoning vulnerabilities, and buffer overflow vulnerabilities that could potentially be used to achieve remote code execution (RCE).

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