Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

We are rapidly approaching a "secure by default" web and the green padlock is becoming the norm ( about two thirds of all browser traffic is now encrypted ). A great resource for getting a quick snapshot of how a site implements their SSL / TLS / HTTPS ("encryption of traffic", for the masses) is SSL Labs.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

It comes equipped with a built-in TOR network tunnel for communication with command servers, along with update and delivery functionality through trusted services such as GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket, all using custom encrypted archives. The malware executable file is placed in /tmp directory with a random name.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

For some reason, the Shelly on my garage door is making a DNS request for api.shelly.cloud once every second! The vulnerability is the result of weak encryption used by TP-Link. The growth has been driven by the free and easy availability of certificates, largely due to the emergence of Let's Encrypt in 2016.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2023

The attackers obtained encrypted passwords from NetScaler ADC configuration files, and the decryption key was stored on the ADC appliance. The attackers attempted to verify outbound network connectivity with a ping command and executed host commands for a subnet-wide DNS lookup. Network-segmentation controls blocked this activity too.

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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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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. By exploiting weak server vulnerabilities, the Iran-based hackers were able to gain access, move laterally, encrypt IT systems, and demand ransom payment. clinical labs company September U.S.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Brute-force attacks on services that use SSH, a more advanced protocol that encrypts traffic, can yield similar outcomes. User files were encrypted, with the device’s interface displaying a ransom note demanding payment of 0.03 DNS changer Malicious actors may use IoT devices to target users who connect to them.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

group_a : from 2016 to August 2017 2. T1094) mainly developed using DNS resolutions (which is actually one of the main characteristic of the attacker group). They begun development by introducing crafted communication protocol over DNS and later they added, to such a layer, encoding and encryption self build protocols.

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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 Affairs

APRIL 1, 2019

But if we go on the Akamai blog we can still find a reference to Elknot posted on April 4, 2016 on a topic referred to “ BillGates ”, another DDoS malware whose “ attack vectors available within the toolkit include: ICMP flood, TCP flood, UDP flood, SYN flood, HTTP Flood (Layer7) and DNS reflection floods.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 28, 2021

Since the 1970s, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) has offered encryption , authentication, bootstrapping, and digital signatures to secure digital communications. As encryption methods go, AES-128 and RSA-2048 are vulnerable to quantum attacks. More robust security for Domain Name Systems (DNS). Next-Generation Cryptography.

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SecureList

APRIL 24, 2023

Introduction We introduced Tomiris to the world in September 2021, following our investigation of a DNS-hijack against a government organization in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). KopiLuwak has belonged to Turla Kaspersky first reported on KopiLuwak in 2016. and a compilation date set to September 2022.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 12, 2022

The CA will issue challenges (DNS or HTTPS) requiring the agent to take an action that demonstrates control over said domain(s). Back in 2015, when Let’s Encrypt was was just emerging as a certificate-authority force, Josh Aas, the ISRG's executive director said that "Encryption should be the default for the web.

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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. After sending a beacon to the C2 server, the malware collects general system information, sending it after AES encryption. domainhost.dynamic-dns[.]net. PROCESS_ID. #.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In 2016, the Mirai botnet attack left most of the eastern U.S. Moving away from trying to trick users, pharming leverages cache poisoning against the DNS , using malicious email code to target the server and compromise web users’ URL requests. In 2008, the Kraken botnet with 495,000 bots infected 10% of the Fortune 500 companies.

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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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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Microsoft Azure Microsoft Hyper-V 2016/2019 R2/2019 VMware ESXi up to 7.0 Prices are not generally published for higher end hardware or virtual appliances. Virtual Appliance supports most major virtualization options: Amazon AWS (EC2) KVM on CentOS 7.7. Ubuntu 18.04, and Ubuntu 20.04

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

The tool was shared on a Chinese forum around 2016. The adversary compresses and encrypts the data by using WinRAR from the command-line. hp<password> = encrypt both file data and headers with password. We observed the use of Cobalt Strike’s C2 protocol encapsulated in DNS by the adversary in 2017 and 2018.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Not only do I get a much faster time to market, I don’t have to worry about rolling my own encryption. Really, never roll your own encryption. SSH or Secure Shell is an encrypted connection over Port 22. Why should I attempt to create my own SSL/TLS when I can integrate OpenSSL into my product. Just don’t.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Not only do I get a much faster time to market, I don’t have to worry about rolling my own encryption. Really, never roll your own encryption. SSH or Secure Shell is an encrypted connection over Port 22. Why should I attempt to create my own SSL/TLS when I can integrate OpenSSL into my product. Just don’t.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

For most implants, the threat actor uses similar implementations of DLL hijacking (often associated with ShadowPad malware) and memory injection techniques, along with the use of RC4 encryption to hide the payload and evade detection. libssl.dll or libcurl.dll was statically linked to implants to implement encrypted C2 communications.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

If the US government dictating iPhone encryption design sounds ok to you, ask yourself how you'll feel when China demands the same. — Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) February 17, 2016. " — Paul Asadoorian (@securityweekly) June 7, 2016. He is currently an Associate Professor at John Hopkins University.

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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.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

I first met Dan when he was literally saving the world; okay, at least saving the internet as we know it today by disclosing to the major ISPs in the world a flaw he’d found in the Domain Name System or DNS. CODEN: From 2016 to 2021. Somebody's trying to say encrypt the whole database or exfiltrate the whole database.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Trickbot (aka TrickLoader or Trickster), is a successor of the Dyre banking Trojan that was active from 2014 to 2016 and performed man-in-the-browser attacks in order to steal banking credentials. Trickbot was first discovered in October 2016. Downloaded modules are encrypted, and can be decrypted with the Python script below.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 11, 2023

They're basically entirely encrypted. I think this was back in 2016, though, so it's still pretty, pretty recent. So effectively, it is sent some I think it was XP dirtree which caused a DNS lookup on the collaborator server. So I wanted to try and extract information another way and I knew I had a DNS lookup available, right?

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Lenny Zeltser

MAY 3, 2019

campaigns from around 2016. Use encrypted chat for sensitive discussions. Minimize the use of email, if practical, in favor of closed-group, encrypted messaging tools. Encrypt your network communications and watch out for security warnings. Lock down domain registrar and DNS settings. government.

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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. Attackers remain in the system after Marriott acquires Starwood in 2016 and aren’t discovered until September 2018. He is arrested and sentenced to 20 months in prison.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

forced the issue of cybersecurity into the political spotlight in 2016. One example: too many are in the dark about website encryption — 61% of world politicians’ websites aren’t HTTPS-secured. Trump International Hotels experienced three breaches between August 2016 and March 2017, during which Trump led the business.

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