Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The Manipulaters’ core brand in the underground is a shared cybercriminal identity named “ Saim Raza ,” who for the past decade across dozens of cybercrime sites and forums has peddled a popular spamming and phishing service variously called “ Fudtools ,” “ Fudpage ,” “ Fudsender ,” etc.

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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. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. ” continues the analysis.

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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 Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2019

The group was first discovered by Symantec and TrendMicro in 2015 but evidence of its activities has been dated back to 2013. State-sponsored hackers launched spear-phishing attackes using weaponized documents. Upon reboot, the VBScript performs an HTTP GET request to fetch an encrypted stage from a dynamic DNS domain.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The email message contains a pdf document named ”Marine_Engine_Spare__Parts_Order.pdf”, originally prepared from an Office document using “ Microsoft Word 2013 ” and then converted into PDF format using the “ Online2PDF.com ” online service. DNS requests intercepted. Phishing page previously hosted on xtyenvunqaxqzrm.usa.cc .

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Phishing [ T1566 ]. 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-2013-2185. CVE-2013-2134. Techniques seen. (in in order of frequency). Initial Access.

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Cisco Security

MAY 12, 2022

Their activities can be traced back as early as 2013, prior to Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula. Gamaredon often leverages malicious office files, distributed through spear phishing as the first stage of their attacks. Therefore, DNS and outgoing web traffic is crucial for its detection.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Janicab was first introduced in 2013 as malware able to run on MacOS and Windows operating systems. Based on our telemetry, the delivery mechanism remains spear phishing. On the network, the threat actor’s use of a C2 IP address instead of domain names remains a prime method of bypassing DNS-based security controls.

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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.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2018

Experts from SecureWorks discovered a large phishing campaign targeting universities carried out by an Iran-linked threat actor COBALT DICKENS. Many of the domains used by COBALT DICKENS were registered between May and August 2018, most of them resolved to the same IP address and DNS name server. “In March 2018, the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

us began in September 2013 as a forum for learning and teaching how to hack accounts at Runescape, an MMORPG set in a medieval fantasy realm where players battle for kingdoms and riches. A review of passive DNS records from DomainTools indicates that in 2013 pictrace[.]com An administrator account Xerx3s on Abusewithus.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Tabriz has led Google Chrome’s security since 2013, which extends to managing Product, Engineering, and UX today. DNS over HTTPS is a sensitive info grab by whomever Web browsers partner with, yet it's sold as a "privacy enhancement." You are going to be phished long before you are going to be hit with CIA 0days.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Upon startup, this backdoor makes a type A DNS request for the <hex-encoded 20-byte string> u.fdmpkg[.]org After parsing the response to the DNS request, the backdoor launches a reverse shell, using the secondary C2 server for communications. org domain. The end result is the DarkGate loader.

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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. According to MITRE: “APT33 is a suspected Iranian threat group that has carried out operations since at least 2013. CopyKittens.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It retrieves the DNS names of all the directory trees in the local computer’s forest. EMBEDDED SYS MODULE timestamp:2013-03-25 InternalName:RwDrv.sys. It uses web injects to steal financial information. It can’t write any implants to UEFI or any shellcode into physical memory. This is a driver from the RWEverything utility.

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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. Justice Department announces more than 70 indictments and 125 convictions or arrests for phishing, hacking, spamming and other Internet fraud as part of Operation CyberSweep. .

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