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

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. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

This post provides a retrospective analysis of Mirai — the infamous Internet-of-Things botnet that took down major websites via massive distributed denial-of-service using hundreds of thousands of compromised Internet-Of-Things devices. Mirai takedown the Internet. Amazon) taken down were just massive collateral damage.

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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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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

It’s worth noting that web browser support for credential harvesting extends beyond well-known browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer, and includes such lesser-known browsers as Nichrome, Xpom, RockMelt, Vivaldi, SaMonkey, Epic Privacy, and Brave. In the Linux version, it also gathers OpenSSH keys stored in $HOME/.ssh

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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

JUNE 1, 2023

The standard enables email security solutions and internet service providers (ISPs) to filter in “good” emails and improve their ability to filter out “bad” emails. 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.

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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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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. . . . It’s best to assume internet-connected applications are not secure. Out-of-band. Testing for SQL Injection Vulnerabilities. Encryption: Keep Your Secrets Secret.

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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.” The explosion in internet-enabled technology has created a reliance on digital advancements like cloud computing. Encryption and tokenization. Logging and alerting. Why Do You Need a CASB?

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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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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Mashable: Move over Heartbleed and welcome to shell shock, the latest security threat to hit the internet. used vulnerabilities in sendmail and the fingerd protocol to construct unintentionally what would become the first internet worm. And it's a doozy program. Vamosi: In the fall of 2014, Shellshock was publicly disclosed.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Mashable: Move over Heartbleed and welcome to shell shock, the latest security threat to hit the internet. used vulnerabilities in sendmail and the fingerd protocol to construct unintentionally what would become the first internet worm. And it's a doozy program. Vamosi: In the fall of 2014, Shellshock was publicly disclosed.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

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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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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

.” PicTrace appears to have been a service that allowed users to glean information about anyone who viewed an image hosted on the platform, such as their Internet address, browser type and version number. A review of passive DNS records from DomainTools indicates that in 2013 pictrace[.]com A copy of pictrace[.]com

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1988 — The Morris Worm — Robert Morris creates what would be known as the first worm on the Internet. 2002 – Internet Attack — By targeting the thirteen Domain Name System (DNS) root servers, a DDoS attack assaults the entire Internet for an hour. An industry expert estimates the attacks resulted in $1.2

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 20, 2024

. “Ultimately, my clients don’t care what you say about any of the websites or corporate entities in your Article, as long as you completely remove my clients’ names from the Article and cooperate with my clients to have copies of the Article where my clients’ names appear removed from the Internet,” Mr. Gurvits wrote.

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