The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Back in 2008, the late, great security researcher Dan Kaminsky discovered a serious security flaw in a ubiquitous Internet technology: the domain name system, or DNS. Just point your web browser to securityledger.com/subscribe to get notified whenever a new podcast is posted. [ Mark Stanislav is a VP of Information Security at Gemini.

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Google Security

MARCH 28, 2024

Tianhao Chi and Puneet Sood, Google Public DNS The Domain Name System (DNS) is a fundamental protocol used on the Internet to translate human-readable domain names (e.g., When a user enters a domain name in their browser, the DNS resolver (e.g. Google Public DNS). www.example.com) into numeric IP addresses (e.g.,

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Malwarebytes

JULY 14, 2021

Windows 10, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, and Windows Server 2019. CVE-2021-34494 Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability for Windows Server versions if the server is configured to be a DNS server. and Windows 10. Exchange Server.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The Novidade exploit kit leverages cross-site request forgery (CSRF) to change the Domain Name System (DNS) settings of SOHO routers and redirect traffic from the connected devices to the IP address under the control of the attackers. The exploit kit blindly attacks the detected IP address with all its exploits. .

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

guru’s registration records also are hidden, yet passive domain name system (DNS) records for both cryptor[.]biz ” DomainTools shows this website was registered in 2008 to a Yuri Churnov from Sevastpol, Crimea (prior to Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, the peninsula was part of Ukraine). ” Crypt[.]guru’s

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

DNS elevation of privilege vulnerability. This vulnerability was listed as CVE-2021-36968 and affects systems running Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, SP2 and Windows 7 SP1. It exists due to an application that does not properly impose security restrictions in Windows DNS.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Security teams should also focus on CVE-2021-24078 , a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Windows DNS Server, Liske said. impacts Windows Server 2008 through 2019. This critical vulnerability, which Microsoft assigned a CVSS score of 9.8,

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

2008, wherein he addresses forum members with the salutation, “Hello Gentlemen Scammers.” I can not provide DNS for u, only domains. Here’s snippet of Icamis’s ad on Spamdot from Aug. ” We are glad to present you our services!

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

“After selecting the appropriate vulnerability, it uses the PowerSploit module to reflectively load the embedded exploit bundle binary with the target vulnerability and an MSI command as arguments.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 6, 2023

Act I: Humble Beginnings (2008 - 2012) In the late 2000s, Malwarebytes tiptoed into the business sector with corporate licensing for its consumer anti-malware product. Malwarebytes added a DNS/Web Content Filtering Module and a Cloud Storage Scanning Module to the mix, rounding off a delectable buffet of cybersecurity enhancements.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 2, 2022

We have been doing so since 2008, benefiting from Kaspersky’s decades of cyberthreat data management, and unrivaled technologies. Onyphe ), passive DNS databases, public sandbox reports, etc. It is a highly demanding activity, which requires time, multidisciplinary skills, efficient technology, innovation and dedication.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Supported Windows versions include Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and Windows 10 up to build 14392. DNS resolutions for pool servers are cleverly concealed behind DNS over HTTPS requests to the Cloudflare DoH (DNS over HTTPS) service , adding an extra layer of stealth to its operations.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The first-ever large-scale malware attacks on IoT devices were recorded back in 2008, and their number has only been growing ever since. DNS changer Malicious actors may use IoT devices to target users who connect to them. On such a device, the configuration would be altered to make it use the operators’ DNS server.

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SecureList

JUNE 2, 2022

LuoYu is a lesser-known threat actor that has been active since 2008. Full control over the DNS, meaning they can provide responses for non-existent domains. Introduction. In their initial disclosures on this threat actor, TeamT5 identified three malware families: SpyDealer, Demsty and WinDealer.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

Catchpoint launched in 2008 as a dedicated monitoring tools provider right as organizations started to dabble with cloud services. Read more : Best SIEM Tools of 2022. Catchpoint. Today the NYC-based vendor is on a mission to monitor the end-to-end digital experience of hybrid network users through its Catchpoint platform.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In 2008, the Kraken botnet with 495,000 bots infected 10% of the Fortune 500 companies. Moving away from trying to trick users, pharming leverages cache poisoning against the DNS , using malicious email code to target the server and compromise web users’ URL requests. Since 2008, RAM scraping has been a boon for retailers.

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Cisco Security

MAY 26, 2022

In 2005, I was lucky enough to become a Senior Editor at Tom’s Hardware Guide and attended Black Hat as accredited press from 2005 to 2008. We were proud to collaborate with NOC partners Gigamon, IronNet, MyRepublic, NetWitness and Palo Alto Networks. .

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2023

Prior to this date, in 2021, the domain was registered and hosted by a previous owner, with DNS resolution observed through October of 2021. After the new DNS registration by the Grand persona, the domain was initially live via authoritative DNS in regway.com on 2023-10-08, and then migrated to Cloudflare DNS on 2023-10-11.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Perhaps even more significant was in 2008 when researcher Dan Kaminsky found a fundamental flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol, one that could lead to cache poisoning.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Perhaps even more significant was in 2008 when researcher Dan Kaminsky found a fundamental flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol, one that could lead to cache poisoning.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

2002 – Internet Attack — By targeting the thirteen Domain Name System (DNS) root servers, a DDoS attack assaults the entire Internet for an hour. Gonzales is later involved in a string of hacking crimes, again stealing credit and debit card details, from around 2006 until he is arresting in 2008. billion dollars in damages.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 20, 2024

The Wayback machine at archive.org shows the Humanbook domain ( humanbook.com ) came online around April 2008 , when the company was still in “beta” mode. By August 2008, however, humanbook.com had changed the name advertised on its homepage to Radaris Beta. Eventually, Humanbook simply redirected to radaris.com.

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