Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2024

Researchers warn of an attack vector in the DNS, called the Sitting Ducks, that exposes over a million domains to hackers’ takeover. Researchers from Eclypsium and Infoblox have identified an attack vector in the domain name system (DNS), dubbed the Sitting Ducks attack. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2018

Crooks are targeting DLink DSL modem routers in Brazil to redirect users to fake bank websites by carrying out DNS hijacking. Crooks are targeting DLink DSL modem routers in Brazil to redirect users to fake bank websites by changing the DNS settings. D-Link DSL-2740R / Unauthenticated Remote DNS Change Exploit [link].

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 1, 2019

What this tells me is that the presidential candidates, at least, actually appear to be heeding lessons learned from the hacking John Podesta’s email account – and all of the havoc Russia was able to foment in our 2016 elections. Let’s not forget how Russia targeted elections in 39 states back in 2016. “We

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

Security expert Marco Ramilli published the findings of a quick analysis of the webmask project standing behind the DNS attacks implemented by APT34 (aka OilRig and HelixKitten ). According to Duo, “ OilRig delivered Trojans that use DNS tunneling for command and control in attacks since at least May 2016. Leaked Source code.

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DNS Computers and Electronics Penetration Testing Government 107

Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

guru’s registration records also are hidden, yet passive domain name system (DNS) records for both cryptor[.]biz Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 reports that obelisk57@gmail.com was used to register an account on the forum Blacksoftware under the nickname “ Kerens.” .” Crypt[.]guru’s biz and crypt[.]guru

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. The group was observed using this scheme between 2019 and 2020, and according to the experts, most of the compromised email accounts belong to defense companies in the Middle East. ” concludes the report.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts. us , a site unabashedly dedicated to helping people hack email and online gaming accounts. An administrator account Xerx3s on Abusewithus. Abusewith[.]us

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Automated Account Provisioning, by Adi Sankar. Cisco Umbrella : DNS visibility and security. Since joining the Black Hat NOC in 2016, my goal remains integration and automation. Automated Account Provisioning, by Adi Sankar. This reduces the confusion of managing multiple accounts and passwords.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Valid Accounts [ T1178 ]. Account Discovery [ T1087 ]. Valid Accounts [ T1078 ]. Valid Accounts [ T1078 ]. Valid Accounts [ T1078 ]. Much of this traffic is comprised of suspicious DNS queries, which point to known or likely Command and Control sites. CVE-2016-3081. CVE-2016-3087. Percent of.

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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. Conclusion.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2019

The threat actors use the.bit Top-Level Domain (TLD) for the Domain Name System (DNS) servers. bit” C&C domains was added to protect the C2 infrastructure, this TLD is associated with the cryptocurrency Namecoin and requires special DNS servers that the malware uses (dedsolutions[.]bit, ” continues Proofpoint. bit, arepos[.]bit).null.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

A 2016 screen shot of the Joker’s Stash homepage. In 2019, someone hacked BriansClub and relieved the fraud shop of more than 26 million stolen payment cards — an estimated one-third of the 87 million payment card accounts that were on sale across all underground shops at that time. The links have been redacted.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

It's the address on Aadhaar's Twitter account , it's the first result on a Google search and time and time again, it's promoted as the site people should go to before doing anything else Aadhaar related. Why HSTS is here and not (consistently) on the root domain is unclear and unfortunately, it means that someone browsing from uidai.gov.in

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

At its peak in September 2016, Mirai temporarily crippled several high-profile services such as. August 2016. By its second day, Mirai already accounted for half of all Internet telnet scans observed by our collective set of honeypots, as shown in the figure above. Krebs on Security. via massive. MIRAI Genesis.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 15, 2023

We can't touch DNS. Let me illustrate by example: in January this year, I loaded a rather large breach into HIBP: New scraped data: Twitter had over 200M accounts scraped from a vulnerable API in 2021. I learned this the hard way and wrote about it in detail in 2016. We don't have any of those 4 aliases on our domain.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

group_a : from 2016 to August 2017 2. Indeed during the group_a, the main observed delivery techniques where about Phishing (rif.T1193) and Valid Accounts (rif.T1078). T1094) mainly developed using DNS resolutions (which is actually one of the main characteristic of the attacker group).

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As Brian Krebs notes, this tactic has been around for some years and was spotted in 2016 being sent out via Skype spam. Fake Amazon login The phishing site asks for an email or phone number tied to an Amazon account. For example, in February of last year Slinks were being used to send people to IRS and PayPal phishes.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

The technique is really simple as it only requires an email account that sends messages to itself containing stolen credentials for each victim that executed the malware on their computer. pw accounts, various scams). The threat actor shared photos of himself back in 2016 and for some reason forgot about them. Test successful!

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The PlugX families we observed used DNS [ T1071.001 ] [ T1071.004 ] as the transport channel for C2 traffic, in particular TXT queries. Another clue that helped us was the use of DNS tunneling by Winnti which we discovered traces of in memory. The hardcoded 208.67.222.222 resolves to a legitimate OpenDNS DNS server.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 20, 2023

What's so special about this individual is the fact that he's also been running a well known money mule recruitment operation since 2016 using the World Issuer LLC money mule recruitment franchise based on my research using public sources where we've got the actual hxxp://worldissuer[.]biz com hxxp://beta-dns[.]net nordexin@ya.ru

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

For the Forrester Wave for Cloud Security Gateways, Imperva was a Contender in 2016 and 2017, and Forcepoint was a Strong Performer in 2021. For the Forrester Wave for Cloud Security Gateways, Bitglass has been a Contender in the three reports released between 2016 and 2021. The product is well rated by users and analysts alike.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This archive is discreetly hosted on legitimate websites, cleverly disguised as firmware binaries for enigmatic devices labeled “m100” The Bitbucket repository was created on June 21, 2018, under the account of Julie Heilman, and it remains the sole repository associated with this profile.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Between 2016 and 2018, the malware strain SamSam made brute force RDP attacks an integral part of its attacks on several public organizations. Meanwhile, the suspect server was connected to the CDOT domain with an administrator account and the internet. Also read : Best Internet Security Suites & Software.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 30, 2024

If the BOF is used to query logged on users on localhost, the fully qualified computer DNS name from GetComputerNameExW is used. Figure 2 — Sessions Gathered with NetWkstaUserEnum An important note here is that fully qualified DNS names are important when supplying the servername argument. If that fails, the DNS suffix (e.g.,

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 1, 2024

On a LAN, the threat actor would use spoofed zeroconf / mDNS / DNS-SD ads. The problem: Drive remapping and cache poisoning could lead to DLL hijacking of Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, and Windows Server 2022.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

We attribute the campaign, named SnatchCrypto, to the BlueNoroff APT group, the threat actor behind the 2016 attack on Bangladesh’s central bank. The group uses various malware families, including Wroba, and attack methods that include phishing, mining, smishing and DNS poisoning.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

After obtaining a valid account, they use this account to access the victim’s VPN, Citrix or another remote service that allows access to the network of the victim. Information regarding these remotes services is taken from the mailbox, cloud drive, or other cloud resources accessible by the compromised account.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 4, 2023

And start going through different websites, trying to crack those accounts as well. But when I was there, one of the first projects I worked on was auth systems for mostly DNS. And figuring out how we could route sellers’ custom websites to our website, and have the DNS records match up, and handle SSL.

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SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

BlueNoroff is the name of an APT group coined by Kaspersky researchers while investigating the notorious attack on Bangladesh’s Central Bank back in 2016. A compromised LinkedIn account of an actual company representative was used to approach a target and engage with them. cmd.exe /c “mkdir %public%MM >%temp%TMPF522.tmp

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Let's start by looking at this from a philosophical standpoint: But here’s the bigger philosophical question: the device still worked fine with the native app, should @TPLINKUK be held accountable for supporting non-documented use cases? Probably “no”, but in a perfect world they’d document local connections by other apps and not break that.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 28, 2021

More robust security for Domain Name Systems (DNS). Custodian of the MediLedger Network, Chronicled first started deploying their blockchain platform in 2014 before zeroing in on life sciences in late 2016. Distributed PKI and multi-signature login capabilities. Verifying and logging software updates and downloads. Chronicled.

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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. Legal hold, both in Google and in O365, is included in the most expensive subscription plans, making it unreasonable to pay around $12/month per account for keeping that data.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

This included all contacts, sent and received messages with attached files, names of chats/channels, name and phone number of the account owner – the target’s entire correspondence. Upon startup, this backdoor makes a type A DNS request for the <hex-encoded 20-byte string> u.fdmpkg[.]org org domain.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security) protocol is used to establish secure connections over UDP, through which most DNS queries, as well as audio and video traffic, are sent. GRE flooding was employed, for instance, by the Mirai botnet to attack the blog of journalist Brian Krebs in 2016. Botnet distribution by country.

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SecureList

AUGUST 30, 2023

Tomiris called, they want their Turla malware back We first reported Tomiris in September 2021, following our investigation into a DNS hijack against a government organization in the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States). Turla is happy to use a tool that was burned in 2016; and is still using it in current operations along with new tools.

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The attacker may utilize a website such as nwtools.com to look through the target organization’s DNS records. The FBI estimates that from October 2013 to February 2016, whaling attacks were attributed to $2.3 The passwords were then used to deposit future paychecks into the attacker’s account. billion in losses.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Important CVE-2024-49040 | Microsoft Exchange Server Spoofing Vulnerability CVE-2024-49040 is a spoofing vulnerability affecting Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 and 2019. of the vulnerabilities patched this month, followed by elevation of privilege (EoP) vulnerabilities at 29.9%. It was assigned a CVSSv3 score of 7.5

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