Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

TrickBot is a popular banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features. In early 2019, researchers spotted a new TrickBot backdoor framework dubbed Anchor that was using the anchor_dns tool for abusing the DNS protocol for C2 communications.

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SecureList

JULY 25, 2022

It is worth noting that the localization of this function, also achieved by searching for hardcoded patterns, is very exhaustive and even contains patterns corresponding to the Redstone 1 release from August 2016. There, CosmicStrand sleeps for 10 minutes and tests the internet connectivity of the infected machine. 2016-12-27.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2016, according to the CrowdStrike researchers it is using a very sophisticated toolset. ” The hacking group initially compromised one of the telecommunication companies by leveraging external DNS (eDNS) servers which are part of the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) network. .

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

A user reported that its D-Link DNS-320 device was infected by malicious code. The D-Link DNS-320 model is no more available for sale, one of the members of the forum explained that the firmware of its NAS was never updated and its device was exposed to WAN through ports 8080, FTP port 21, and a range of ports for port forwarding.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2022

The providers are trying to sell this idea by telling the public that the identifier can never be tracked back to an individual and that something needs to be done to keep the internet free. Free internet. The end of the tracking cookie. Where does this attempt come from, you may ask. Wouldn’t that be nice? Hiding consent.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2023

Sophos X-Ops is currently tracking a campaign by threat actors targeting unpatched Citrix NetScaler systems exposed to the internet. 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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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. The nation-state hackers are scanning the entire internet, in search of vulnerable webmail and Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover servers that expose TCP ports 445 and 1433. ” continues the report. ” concludes the report.

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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. At its peak in September 2016, Mirai temporarily crippled several high-profile services such as.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 1, 2024

According to Margaritelli, the entry point for an exploit would be port 631 via a UDP packet on the wide area network or public internet. On a LAN, the threat actor would use spoofed zeroconf / mDNS / DNS-SD ads. A vulnerability in the Kia owner’s website and mobile app allowed users to execute internet-to-vehicle commands.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

guru’s registration records also are hidden, yet passive domain name system (DNS) records for both cryptor[.]biz But Intel 471 finds that after his critical review of VIP Crypt, Kerens did not post publicly on Exploit again for another four years until October 2016, when they suddenly began advertising Cryptor[.]biz.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The Iron cybercrime group has been active since at least 2016, is known for the Iron ransomware but across the years it is built various strain of malware, including backdoors, cryptocurrency miners, and ransomware to target both mobile and desktop systems. . ActiveMQ arbitrary file write vulnerability , CVE-2016-3088.”

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NopSec

JUNE 16, 2020

LLMNR is derived from DNS protocol, and is intended to enable hosts on a local network to easily perform name resolution. WPAD is a protocol that probes for a WPAD server hosting a proxy configuration file at the DNS address “wpad.domain.com”. This does not require a man-in-the-middle condition, and can work across the Internet.

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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. August 2016: Initial leak by the Shadow Brokers group.

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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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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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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

DNS changer Malicious actors may use IoT devices to target users who connect to them. A 2022 campaign known as Roaming Mantis, or Shaoye, spread an Android app whose capabilities included modifying DNS settings on Wi-Fi routers through the administration interface. The practice has not become widespread due to relative inefficiency.

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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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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). Why You Need Automated Security for the Internet of Things (IoT). It was designed by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) for their Let's Encrypt service. . Anastasios Arampatzis.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Also read : Best Internet Security Suites & Software. 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.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 4, 2023

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. I don’t see them really going away anytime soon, especially given the long tail of technology on the internet.

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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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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. Or are they just the same old risks we've always had with data stored on the internet?

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In 2016, the Mirai botnet attack left most of the eastern U.S. with no internet. Targeting victims over the phone, vishing is the use of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), technical jargon, and ID spoofing to trick a caller into revealing sensitive information. RAM Scraper. Also Read: Holiday Twitter Topics Concealing Malware.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

These credentials are used in a credential stuffing or password spraying attack against the victim’s remote services, such as webmail or other internet reachable mail services. This specific document described how to access the internet facing company portal and the web-based VPN client into the company network.

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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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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. If the document isn’t blocked from connecting to the internet, it fetches a remote template that is another macro-enabled document. domainhost.dynamic-dns[.]net.

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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. Dan found a flaw that could have crippled the internet. CODEN: From 2016 to 2021.

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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. It targets the storage databases of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In 2016, Professor Brumley and a team of students from CMU were victorious in DARPA's first ever Cyber Grand Challenge that pitted automated cyber defense technologies against one another. For example, they may think, "Hey, the user's going to give me an input and it's only going to be as long as maybe a DNS record."

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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. In 2020, when much of life shifted online, internet resources repeatedly suffered from surges in totally legitimate activity.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In 2016, Professor Brumley and a team of students from CMU were victorious in DARPA's first ever Cyber Grand Challenge that pitted automated cyber defense technologies against one another. For example, they may think, "Hey, the user's going to give me an input and it's only going to be as long as maybe a DNS record."

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In 2016, Professor Brumley and a team of students from CMU were victorious in DARPA's first ever Cyber Grand Challenge that pitted automated cyber defense technologies against one another. For example, they may think, "Hey, the user's going to give me an input and it's only going to be as long as maybe a DNS record."

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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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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 11, 2023

So most of our apps are mostly upside tests over the internet. 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. I could cause the server to do DNS requests. That one that one.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

From a ZDNet article : The malware, known as Pegasus (or Trident), was created by Israeli cyber-security firm NSO Group and has been around for at least three years -- when it was first detailed in a report over the summer of 2016. Thus, our list of 45 countries necessarily includes countries that are not NSO Group customers.

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