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A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks

Krebs on Security

government — along with a number of leading security companies — recently warned about a series of highly complex and widespread attacks that allowed suspected Iranian hackers to siphon huge volumes of email passwords and other sensitive data from multiple governments and private companies. PASSIVE DNS.

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Russian Sandworm APT impersonates Ukrainian telcos to deliver malware

Security Affairs

Russia-linked APT group Sandworm has been observed impersonating telecommunication providers to target Ukrainian entities with malware. Russia-linked cyberespionage group Sandworm has been observed impersonating telecommunication providers to target Ukrainian entities with malware. ” reads the report published by Recorded Future.

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Lyceum APT made the headlines with attacks in Middle East

Security Affairs

reported that Hexane is targeting organizations in the oil and gas industry and telecommunication providers. Lyceum was observed using password spraying and brute-force attacks to compromise email accounts of targeted individuals. The malware uses DNS and HTTP-based communication mechanisms. Security experts at Dragos Inc.

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SolarWinds SUNBURST Backdoor DGA and Infected Domain Analysis

CyberSecurity Insiders

We found the affected domains span across different types of organizations (including information technology, public administration, education, and finance and insurance etc.) According to SaveBreach , Security Researcher Vinoth Kumar discovered a password that belongs to SolarWinds update server has been leaked to Github since 2018.

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Iran-linked APT34: Analyzing the webmask project

Security Affairs

Security expert Marco Ramilli published the findings of a quick analysis of the webmask project standing behind the DNS attacks implemented by APT34 (aka OilRig and HelixKitten ). The group conducts operations primarily in the Middle East, targeting financial, government, energy, chemical, telecommunications and other industries.

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Canadian Police Raid ‘Orcus RAT’ Author

Krebs on Security

As first detailed by KrebsOnSecurity in July 2016 , Orcus is the brainchild of John “Armada” Rezvesz , a Toronto resident who until recently maintained and sold the RAT under the company name Orcus Technologies. In an “official press release” posted to pastebin.com on Mar. This makes it harder for targets to remove it from their systems.

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Guarding Against Solorigate TTPs

eSecurity Planet

With access to DSInternals, the malware could query the AD servers and steal data, passwords, and keys. 509 keys or password credentials to legitimate OAuth applications to offer protracted authorized access. Mail DNS controls. Executed Microsoft PowerShell commands to create more instances of Raindrop on network computers.