eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Sophos: Noted that 43% of all 2023 malware signature updates are for stealers, spyware, and keyloggers often used to steal credentials from devices. 50,000 DDoS attacks on public domain name service (DNS) resolvers. 553% increase in DNS Flood attacks from 1H 2020 to 2H 2023. 20,551 gambling industry attacks.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2024

CISA adds Microsoft Windows CLFS driver flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Microsoft December 2024 Patch Tuesday addressed actively exploited zero-day SAP fixed critical SSRF flaw in NetWeaver’s Adobe Document Services Romanian energy supplier Electrica Group is facing a ransomware attack Deloitte denied its systems were hacked (..)

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Pegasus spyware is a phone surveillance solution that enables customers to remotely exploit and monitor devices. He was concerned that his phone had been hacked he contacted Toronto's Citizen Lab and agreed to let them install a VPN application that would give researchers a chance to track metadata associated with his Internet traffic.

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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. This ends up executing sketchy code that installs viruses, ransomware, spyware, or adware behind the victim's back.

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SecureList

JUNE 3, 2024

However, some of the things the malware authors came up with, such as placing their Python script inside a domain TXT record on the DNS server, were ingenious. It simulated the isolated system without access to the internet. “PivotHost” was located inside the network, but it had internet access.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

5 ExpressVPN is a solution for encrypting and protecting your internet connections. DNS leak protection: ExpressVPN has secure DNS servers that your device uses when ExpressVPN is enabled. DNS leak protection: ExpressVPN has secure DNS servers that your device uses when ExpressVPN is enabled. 5 Pricing: 3.3/5

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1988 — The Morris Worm — Robert Morris creates what would be known as the first worm on the Internet. 2002 – Internet Attack — By targeting the thirteen Domain Name System (DNS) root servers, a DDoS attack assaults the entire Internet for an hour. An industry expert estimates the attacks resulted in $1.2

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

During routine monitoring of detections for FinFisher spyware tools, we discovered traces that point to recent FinFly Web deployments. 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.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

When the internet arrived, the network added a firewall to protect networks and users as they connected to the world wide web. The internet of things (IoT), operations technology (OT), and the industrial internet of things (IIoT) also now connect to networks. some attacks seek to disrupt operations instead.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

NullMixer is a dropper that includes more than just specific malware families; it drops a wide variety of malicious binaries to infect the machine with, such as backdoors, bankers, downloaders, spyware and many others. Satacom sends a DNS TXT-query to ‘ reosio.com ‘ and receives a response with a base64 encoded string.

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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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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Internet-of-things (IoT) devices Operational Technology (OT) Inspection focus (network vs. server vs. entire environment) IT environment complexity ( segmentation level, distributed or local networks) Location of users (local or remote) Security team evaluation: maturity, capabilities, and capacity.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Citizen Lab has published a new report about the Pegasus spyware. On infected devices, Pegasus is a powerful spyware that can do many things, such as record conversations, steal private messages, exfiltrate photos, and much much more. Thus, our list of 45 countries necessarily includes countries that are not NSO Group customers.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Additional features of botnets include spam, ad and click fraud, and spyware. with no internet. Cybersecurity vendors like Panda Security suggest the best way to defend against crimeware is using a combination of antivirus, anti-spyware, firewalls, and threat detection technology. Jump ahead: Adware. Bots and botnets.

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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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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2025

CVSS) in IOS XE That Enables Root Exploits via JWT Internet tracking: How and why were followed online Google to pay Texas $1.4 CVSS) in IOS XE That Enables Root Exploits via JWT Internet tracking: How and why were followed online Google to pay Texas $1.4

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