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Who’s Behind the NetWire Remote Access Trojan?

Krebs on Security

A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire , a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. NetWire has been sold openly on the same website since 2012: worldwiredlabs[.]com. org , also registered in 2012.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for March 2025 fix six actively exploited zero-days

Security Affairs

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for March 2025 addressed 56 vulnerabilities in Windows and Windows Components, Office and Office Components, Azure,NET and Visual Studio, Remote Desktop Services, DNS Server, and Hyper-V Server. Six vulnerabilities are rated Critical, and 50 are rated Important in severity.

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Padlocks, Phishing and Privacy; The Value Proposition of a VPN

Troy Hunt

— Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) April 4, 2012 I was reminded of this only a few days ago when I came across yet another Windows virus scam, the kind that's been doing the rounds for a decade now but refuses to die. So what about DNS over HTTPS, or DoH ? With the DNS dance done, what's the impact on privacy then?

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Who’s Behind the Botnet-Based Service BHProxies?

Krebs on Security

BHProxies has authored 129 posts on Black Hat World since 2012, and their last post on the forum was in December 2022. BHProxies initially was fairly active on Black Hat World between May and November 2012, after which it suddenly ceased all activity. 5, 2014 , but historic DNS records show BHproxies[.]com com on Mar.

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Feds Charge Three in Mass Seizure of Attack-for-hire Services

Krebs on Security

.” In such assaults, the perpetrators leverage unmanaged Domain Name Servers (DNS) or other devices on the Web to create huge traffic floods. Ideally, DNS servers only provide services to machines within a trusted domain — such as translating an Internet address from a series of numbers into a domain name, like example.com.

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The Prevalence of DarkComet in Dynamic DNS

Security Boulevard

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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Four in-the-wild exploits, 13 critical patches headline bumper Patch Tuesday

Malwarebytes

Vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild, besides PrintNightmare, are: CVE-2021-34448 Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability for Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 10. CVE-2021-33771 Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability for Windows Server 2012, Server 2016, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10. Exchange Server.

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