Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In August, Volexity researchers reported that a China-linked APT group, tracked as StormBamboo (aka Evasive Panda , Daggerfly , and StormCloud), successfully compromised an undisclosed internet service provider (ISP) in order to poison DNS responses for target organizations. The company linked the attacks to StormBamboo APT group.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

The expert Bob Diachenko has discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch install belonging to a UK security firm that contained 5 billion records of data leaked in previous incidents that took place between 2012 and 2019. ” wrote Security Discovery’s researcher Bob Diachenko.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

The expert Bob Diachenko has discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch install belonging to the security firm Keepnet Labs that contained 5 billion records of data leaked in previous incidents that took place between 2012 and 2019. ” wrote Security Discovery’s researcher Bob Diachenko.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

2012, referring to “dumps and PINs,” the slang term for stolen debit cards with the corresponding PINs that would allow ATM withdrawals. Passive domain name system (DNS) records show that in its early days BriansClub shared a server in Lithuania along with just a handful of other domains, including secure.pinpays[.]com

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2022

Other techniques employed by the APT group include DLL hijacking, Themida-packed files, and DNS tunneling to evade post-compromise detection. Between 2012 and 2015, the Aoqin Dragon actors heavily relied on exploits for CVE-2012-0158 and CVE-2010-3333 vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2019

Necurs botnet is currently the second largest spam botnet , it has been active since at least 2012 and was involved in massive campaigns spreading malware such as the Locky ransomware , the Scarab ransomware , and the Dridex banking Trojan. ” concludes the post.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

Distributed in a ZIP container (a copy is available here ) the interface is quite intuitive: the Microsoft exchange address and its version shall be provided (even if in the code a DNS-domain discovery mode function is available). which according to Microsoft documentation dates back to 2012. WebService.dll assemply version.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 29, 2024

This week, we also saw some older issues return to light, including an Internet Explorer vulnerability first discovered in 2012. The first is a use-after-free vulnerability from 2012, tracked as CVE-2012-4792 , that affects Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, a browser that’s now rarely used.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Pirozzi explains that cybercriminals already have exploited blockchain in attacks in the wild, for example in the case of the popular carding store Joker’s Stash when they have adopted a peer-to-peer DNS system based on blockchain. The Automated Vending Cart (AVC) website was launched in 2017 using blockchain DNS alongside its Tor (.onion)

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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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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

KrebsOnSecurity began researching Icamis’s real-life identity in 2012, but failed to revisit any of that research until recently. I can not provide DNS for u, only domains. For starters, they frequently changed the status on their instant messenger clients at different times.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Since its launch in 2012, the company has operated profitably, attracting customers mainly in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas and growing to 131 employees. Watkins: We’ve had historical relationships with Cylance, Carbon Black, Open DNS and Splunk. LW: What’s the strategy behind your recent partnerships?

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Much of this traffic is comprised of suspicious DNS queries, which point to known or likely Command and Control sites. DNS BIND information disclosure attempts were also commonly encountered. CVE-2012-0391. CVE-2012-2998. Command and Control activity came in third, where 48.7 Apache Struts remote code execution attempt.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2019

Particularly interesting is the presence of the No-IP domain “manuel.hopto.org”: this domain also resolved Nigerian IP addresses of the 37076-EMTS-NIGERIA-AS, and and the Italian AS1267 back in 2012-2014. Figure 11 – “manuel.hopto.org” last DNSs of C2 of JRat. Conclusions.

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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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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

his blog suffered 269 DDOS attacks between July 2012 and September 2016. Applying DNS expansion on the extracted domains and clustering them led us to identify 33 independent C&C clusters that had no shared infrastructure. The chart above reports the number of DNS lookups over time for some of the largest clusters.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2023

Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance is a protocol that was first proposed in January 2012 and widely adopted in 2018 by the U.S. A DMARC policy is included in a DNS record for a given domain, enabling the sender to specify if messages are protected by SPF or DKIM. How Does DMARC Work?

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SecureList

JUNE 2, 2022

In one case we investigated, we noticed that a signed executable qgametool.exe (MD5 f756083b62ba45dcc6a4d2d2727780e4 ), compiled in 2012, deployed WinDealer on a target machine. Full control over the DNS, meaning they can provide responses for non-existent domains.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 10, 2021

The least common of SQL injection attacks, the out-of-band method relies on the database server to make DNS or HTTP requests delivering data to an attacker. . . . This updates an article written on August 16, 2012 article written by Aaron Weiss, and updated by Paul Rubens on May 2, 2018. Out-of-band. Network Access Control (NAC) .

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Founded in 2012, Versa Networks seeks to deploy a single software operating system, called VOS, to converge and integrate cloud and on-premises security, networking, and analytics. Who is Versa Networks? Using VOS, Versa enables customers and service providers to deploy SASE and software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solutions.

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Spinone

AUGUST 12, 2019

This data includes the following: Google Sites created before 2012 and after 2016 Mail: Vacation Settings or Automatic reply settings, email signatures, Filters, Rules. Log into your DNS provider and update your DNS to have an MX record at the domain you created. Therefore, the G Suite migration tool will not process them.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Don Duncan, security engineer at NuData Security, told eSecurity Planet by email that POS systems are often dangerously easy to penetrate with malware , including the following (among many others): Dexter was discovered by Seculert (now Radware) researchers in 2012. vSkimmer malware, a successor to Dexter, dates back to 2013. Errors to avoid.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

First defined by Gartner in 2012, they add CASBs “ interject enterprise security policies as the cloud-based resources are accessed.” For germane devices, traffic is redirected to PAC files, unique DNS configurations, third-party agents, advanced forwarding, chaining, or TAP mechanisms.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 21, 2022

SideWinder APT, aka Rattlesnake or T-APT4, is a suspected Indian Threat Actor Group active since at least 2012, with a history of targeting government, military, and businesses throughout Asia, particularly Pakistan. Beacon Type: Hybrid HTTP DNS. Beacon Type: Hybrid HTTP DNS. Cobalt Strike C2: fia-gov[.]org. 137/DDRA.exe.

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DNS Phishing Malware Government 52

Security Boulevard

APRIL 13, 2022

If dynamic DNS updates are also supported, tools such as Invoke-DNSUpdate can be used to create a DNS entry for the new system that points to an arbitrary IP address. In ConfigMgr 2012, this technique no longer works without also adding a few records to the site database to kick off client push installation. When is this useful?

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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. In April 2012, Google announced ClusterFuzz, a cloud-based fuzzing infrastructure that is used for testing security-critical components of the Chromium web browser.

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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. In April 2012, Google announced ClusterFuzz, a cloud-based fuzzing infrastructure that is used for testing security-critical components of the Chromium web browser.

Software 52

Software Passwords Internet Internet 52

Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

“Using the internal router, it would be possible to poison the DNS cache of the LAN router of the infected node, enabling further attacks.” The website’s copyright suggests the ExE Bucks affiliate program dates back to 2012. ” 911 did not respond to multiple requests for comment on this research.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2021

It is linked to a vulnerability in DNS resolvers that allows amplification attacks on authoritative DNS servers. Attacks on DNS servers are dangerous because all the resources they serve become unavailable, regardless of their size and level of DDoS protection. The bug was named TsuNAME. Quarter trends.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

Hundreds of millions of user passwords left exposed to Facebook employees: News recently broke that Facebook left the passwords of between 200 million and 600 million users unencrypted and available to the company’s 20,000 employees going back as far as 2012.

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Hacking Data privacy Artificial Intelligence System Administration 100

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. Cleaver attack capabilities are evolved over time very quickly and, according to Cylance, active since 2012.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

com from Archive.org in 2012 redirects to the domain qksnap.com , which DomainTools.com says was registered to a Jordan Bloom from Thornhill, ON that same year. A review of passive DNS records from DomainTools indicates that in 2013 pictrace[.]com A copy of pictrace[.]com Pictrace, one of Jordan Bloom’s early IT successes.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

“We designed and conducted a global DNS Cache Probing study on the matching domain names in order to identify in which countries each operator was spying. Citizen Lab uncovered other attacks against individuals in Qatar or Saudi, where the Israeli surveillance software is becoming very popular. COUNTRY NEXUS. 1 (Source: Citizen Lab ).

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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. He is arrested and sentenced to 20 months in prison. 2000 — Lou Cipher — Barry Schlossberg, aka Lou Cipher, successfully extorts $1.4 An industry expert estimates the attacks resulted in $1.2

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 20, 2024

However, passive domain name system (DNS) records from DomainTools show that between October 2023 and March 2024 radaris.com was hosted alongside all of the other Gary Norden domains at the Internet address range 38.111.228.x. A spreadsheet of those historical DNS entries for radaris.com is available here (.csv).

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