Threatpost

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

DNS, rogue employees and phishing/social engineering should be top of the list of threat areas for organizations to address.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 9, 2024

Microsoft today released updates to address 147 security holes in Windows, Office , Azure ,NET Framework , Visual Studio , SQL Server , DNS Server , Windows Defender , Bitlocker , and Windows Secure Boot. 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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Malwarebytes

APRIL 9, 2024

Online ads from search engine result pages are increasingly being used to deliver malware to corporate users. ThreatDown via its EDR engine quarantines the malicious DLL immediately. Click here for more information about DNS filtering via our Nebula platform.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In March, a voice phishing scam targeting GoDaddy support employees allowed attackers to assume control over at least a half-dozen domain names, including transaction brokering site escrow.com. “This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. and 11:00 p.m.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Phishing Threats Are Increasing in Scale and Sophistication Phishing remains one of the most dangerous and widespread cybersecurity threats. Phishing is now the most common initial attack vector, overtaking stolen or compromised credentials. Phishing attacks are becoming more difficult to detect. billion USD globally.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 22, 2024

These targets are approached in spear phishing attacks. The group uses social engineering techniques to persuade their targets to open documents or download malware. Once a relationship has been established, the target will receive a phishing link or a document containing such a link.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2022

A large-scale phishing campaign leveraging the Anubis Network is targeting Brazil and Portugal since March 2022. A large-scale phishing campaign is targeting Internet-end users in Brazil and Portugal since March 2022. Figure 1: High-level diagram of the ANUBIS phishing network and its components (2020). The Phishing template.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 29, 2023

Executive summary Credential harvesting is a technique that hackers use to gain unauthorized access to legitimate credentials using a variety of strategies, tactics, and techniques such as phishing and DNS poisoning. According to recent research , phishing assaults targeted credential harvesting in 71.5% of cases in 2020.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

Trend Micro researchers spotted an elusive threat actor, called Earth Lusca, that targets organizations worldwide via spear-phishing and watering hole attacks. . The first cluster was set up using rented virtual private servers (VPS), it was employed in watering hole and spear-phishing attacks. Both clusters served as a C&C server.

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Webroot

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Thanks to the disruptions to “normal” work routines that COVID-19 has brought, launching a company-wide training program to teach end users how to avoid phishing scams and online risks is a big challenge. Unfortunately, COVID-19 has also brought a major acceleration in phishing activity. Start with a baseline phishing campaign.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2023

The group often uses spear-phishing emails and messages (Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal) as an initial attack vector. Distribution of malicious files using the Signal messenger The messages use social engineering to trick victims into opening malicious attachments (i.e.

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Do you feel confident that everyone in your organization could identify a phishing email that contained ransomware? In today’s post, we share information with the goal that it will help everyone in your organization protect themselves from phishing attacks.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 13, 2022

A report published by CSC today revealed a spike in fake domain registrations from entities attempting to leverage the ongoing shortages of baby formula and semiconductors to conduct phishing attacks and perpetrate fraud. The post CSC Reports Spike in Fake Baby Formula, Semiconductor Domains appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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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. However, all it takes is one bad click on a phishing campaign, and suddenly attackers will be looking at an organization from the inside.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 17, 2024

We will not be covering any phishing portions of the task, instead leaving that to the reader and presuming the user has reached the point of downloading and executing our payload. DNS C2 Many RBI solutions only monitor HTTP/HTTPS traffic by default and either require explicitly configuring DNS monitoring or lack that capability altogether.

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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. Spear phishing emails distribution. This is done for the purpose of social engineering. Passive DNS data. Figure 3: Decoy content.

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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. . We’ve decided to take a closer look at the U.S

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Today, weaponized Microsoft office documents with macros, are one of the most common and more effective methods to deliver malware, because they also rely on simple social engineering tricks to lure users to enable them. . Last DNS activity was in December 2018. Figure 14 – previous DNS of C2. Technical analysis.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

There are multiple other attack angles to test, including: Network compromises Social engineering (e.g., phishing) Memory corruptions Wi-Fi attacks Kali is a wonderful toolbox, because it has tools for a wide range of pentests. While the list of tools can provide some hints, it can be confusing for beginners.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

According to Martynas Vareikis, Information Security Researcher at Cybernews, threat actors could use the email addresses exposed in the dataset to carry out phishing attacks. Media giant with $6.35 Accessible data from the public-facing Thomson Reuters database could have tipped off entities that would like their wrongdoing kept in the dark.

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

If your VPN includes all DNS requests and traffic then you could be hiding significantly from your ISP. You will eventually be hacked via phishing, social engineering, poisoning a site you already frequent, or some other technique. Now, let’s look at who we’re defending against if you use a VPN. This is true.

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SecureList

JUNE 7, 2023

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. Android malware, used by Roaming Mantis, and discovered a DNS changer function that was implemented to target specific Wi-Fi routers used mainly in South Korea.

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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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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Attackers often use botnets to send out spam or phishing campaigns to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Phishing and Social Engineering. More targeted efforts at specific users or organizations are known as spear phishing. How to Defend Against Phishing. Phishing Type.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Hackers can target any of your employees with a fraudulent, “ spoofed ” email or several people in a specific department with a phishing campaign. DMARC is based on email authentication, and much of the responsibility rests with senders and their DNS text resource records. Email is a Critical Ransomware Attack Vector.

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SecureList

JUNE 3, 2021

Cybercriminals use this technique to convince victims that a message came from a trusted sender and nudge them into performing a specific action, such as clicking a phishing link, transferring money, downloading a malicious file, etc. If in reality the message was sent from a different domain, the signature will be invalid.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

The attackers study their victims carefully and use the information they find to frame social engineering attacks. The group uses various malware families, including Wroba, and attack methods that include phishing, mining, smishing and DNS poisoning. The phishing kit market.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Over the last few days, a phishing campaign from DHL and entitled “ DHL Shipment Notification ” has been targeted users worldwide distribution the Muncy malware. Now, the malware is targeting user’s worldwide and has been spread via phishing campaigns. The phishing campaign trying to impersonate DHL. For more details, see below.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Formerly on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, Kevin Mitnick is a crucial figure in the history of information security, including approaches to social engineering and penetration testing. Three-time winner of DEF CON’s Social Engineering Capture the Flag Contest, Rachel Tobac is a hacker and CEO of SocialProof Security.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2021

With initial access to a gateway, hackers can move laterally to an on-premises server, leading them to the internal DNS and Active Directory. Also Read: How to Prevent DNS Attacks. While phishing is one of the oldest TTPs in the hacker playbook, it still works – and, thanks to social engineering , continues to evolve.

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Webroot

JULY 6, 2022

Social engineering attacks like phishing, baiting and scareware have skyrocketed to take the top spot as the #1 cause of cybersecurity breaches. So what makes social engineering so effective? When cybercriminals use social engineering tactics, they prey on our natural instinct to help one another.

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Veracode Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Researchers found that TrickBot developers created a tool called anchor_dns which uses a single-byte X0R cipher to obfuscate communications and, once de-obfuscated, is discoverable in DNS request traffic. as phishing attempts often do to gain trust. C:WindowsSysWOW64. s simply too long. ???Blended Blended attacks are now the norm.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

We found overlaps in the infrastructure used by a tunneling tool used by the actor and several possible phishing websites set up within the above time frame. The attack targets victims with spear-phishing emails containing malicious OOXML files. Final thoughts.

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2018

The threat actors don’t have advanced skills, their attack vector is spear phishing messages and they have been quite successful in using social engineering to lure victims into opening the email and downloading and executing the malicious codes. ” Reads the analysis published by ESET. have been active even longer.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Asset Discovery Controls Unauthorized devices can intercept or redirect network traffic through attacks such as connecting unauthorized computers to the network, deploying packet sniffers to intercept network traffic, or delivering a phishing link to a man-in-the-middle attack to steal login credentials and data.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2020

If so we are facing a state-sponsored group with high capabilities in developing persistence and hidden communication channels (for example over DNS) but without a deep interest in exploiting services.

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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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