Duo's Security Blog

MAY 4, 2023

Our documentary, “ The Life and Death of Passwords ,” explores with industry experts the history of passwords, why passwords have become less effective over time, and how trust is established in a passwordless future. The problems with passwords Chrysta: Why was passwordless needed in the first place?

Passwords 98

Passwords Authentication DNS Technology 98

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

Cyber Risk 159

Cyber Risk DNS Phishing Backups 159

Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2022

TrickBot is a popular Windows banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features, including powerful password-stealing capabilities. The news wave of attacks aimed at cryptocurrency firms, most of them located in the U.S. Pierluigi Paganini.

Malware 131

Malware DNS Ransomware Passwords 131

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. .

Telecommunications 136

Telecommunications Mobile Hacking Architecture 136

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.

Malware 271

Malware Antivirus Cybercrime Hacking 271

Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. APT28 is likely launching spear-phishing attacks against the employees of legitimate companies to steal their login credentials for corporate email accounts, or performing brute-force attacks to guess email account passwords.

Phishing 145

Phishing Accountability Advertising DNS 145

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Attack vectors There are two main IoT infection routes: brute-forcing weak passwords and exploiting vulnerabilities in network services. A successful password cracking enables hackers to execute arbitrary commands on a device and inject malware. Unfortunately, users tend to leave these passwords unchanged.

IoT 133

IoT DDOS Passwords Malware 133

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. Next, the site directs you to a tailored password page, using the information you just entered. For example, entering a Gmail address leads to a page asking for the Gmail password. Use a password manager.

Phishing 98

Phishing Passwords Password Management Scams 98

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.”

Cryptocurrency 111

Cryptocurrency Malware Ransomware Cybercrime 111

Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

I've implemented CAA on HIBP and it's simply a matter of some DNS records and a check with a CAA validator : Unfortunately, there are no such records for Aadhaar: Now in fairness to Aadhaar, CAA is very new and the take-up is low ; we cannot be critical of them for not having implemented it yet. Let them paste passwords!

Hacking 279

Hacking Government Encryption Risk 279

Cisco Security

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Cisco Umbrella : DNS visibility and security. Since joining the Black Hat NOC in 2016, my goal remains integration and automation. This reduces the confusion of managing multiple accounts and passwords. The last call is to send a password reset email for the Malware Analytics user. Integrating Security.

DNS 101

DNS Malware Accountability Wireless 101

Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

At its peak in September 2016, Mirai temporarily crippled several high-profile services such as. August 2016. At its peak in November 2016 MIRAI had enslaved over 600,000 IoT devices. MIRAI was able to infect over 600,000 IoT devices by simply exploiting a set of 64 well-known default IoT login/password combinations.

IoT 107

IoT DDOS Internet Internet 107

Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

com , a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. A review of passive DNS records from DomainTools indicates that in 2013 pictrace[.]com I advise anyone who is using an old NR [Near Reality] password for anything remotely important should change it ASAP.”

Hacking 229

Hacking Accountability Data breaches Marketing 229

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.

VPN 124

VPN Ransomware DNS Malware 124

SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This information includes website login usernames and passwords, as well as personal autofill data such as name, address, phone number, company, and job title. The timeline we’ve reconstructed is as follows: April 9, 2016: Earliest known version of StripedFly incorporating EternalBlue, as indicated by PE timestamps.

Malware 142

Malware DNS Encryption Cryptocurrency 142

Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

cassandra.pw (Code Protector) esco.pw (office document protection) monovm hostwinds.com firevps dynu 4server.su (VPS and dedicated servers) dnsomatic.com cloudns.net (DNS services) spam-lab.su The threat actor shared photos of himself back in 2016 and for some reason forgot about them. hackforums.net exploit.in titan.email (.pw

Malware 89

Malware Scams Phishing Accountability 89

Troy Hunt

JUNE 15, 2023

We can't touch DNS. 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. We can't add a meta tag. We can't upload a file. It leaves me prone to asking "well do you really have control of the domain?" I pay for it.

Accountability 260

Accountability Small Business InfoSec DNS 260

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Remote desktop software’s sensitive influence over other devices means identity and access management (IAM), password security , and multi-factor authentication are critical for risk management. Between 2016 and 2018, the malware strain SamSam made brute force RDP attacks an integral part of its attacks on several public organizations.

VPN 122

VPN Software Authentication Encryption 122

Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

I can't blame this on the teddy bears themselves, rather the fact that the MongoDB holding all the collected data was left publicly facing without a password. For some reason, the Shelly on my garage door is making a DNS request for api.shelly.cloud once every second! 24 subnet.

IoT 362

IoT Firmware Risk Manufacturing 362

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”. In most organizations a WPAD host does not exist.

DNS 52

DNS Penetration Testing Authentication Passwords 52

Kali Linux

JANUARY 20, 2016

reboot Please note that the Kali sana repositories will no longer be updated and will be EOL’d on the 15th of April 2016. You can quickly select tools by what they do, such as conducting information gathering , cracking passwords , doing DNS enumeration, evaluating wireless networks, and much, much more.

Penetration Testing 52

Penetration Testing Wireless DNS Passwords 52

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. What are the possible explanations for this?

Malware 134

Malware DNS Government Software 134

Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

Credential theft and password spraying to Cobalt Strike. This adversary starts with obtaining usernames and passwords of their victim from previous breaches. 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.

VPN 68

VPN Accountability Passwords DNS 68

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The cybercriminal behind the attack compromised the students’ usernames and passwords , which were used to access the school’s network. percent for the 2015-2016 school year to pay for an increase in their IT cybersecurity budget. Expelling Malware from School. Protect Your Campus from DDoS Attacks.

Data breaches 52

Data breaches DDOS Education Malware 52

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Organizations can help prevent their computers from becoming part of a botnet by installing anti-malware software, using firewalls , keeping software up-to-date, and forcing users to use strong passwords. Always change the default passwords for any IoT devices you install before extended use. Examples of Botnet Malware Attacks.

Malware 105

Malware Adware Spyware Antivirus 105

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. LokiBot first surfaced in 2016 and remains active today. org domain.

Malware 137

Malware Ransomware Encryption Energy and Utilities 137

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.

Malware 97

Malware Spyware Government Cryptocurrency 97

Cisco Security

MAY 26, 2022

Since 2016, I have been a Technical Solutions Architect at Cisco Meraki and have worked on insanely large Meraki installations – some with twenty thousand branches and more than a hundred thousand access points, so setting up the Black Hat network should be a piece of cake right?

Wireless 104

Wireless Mobile Engineering Firewall 104

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. domainhost.dynamic-dns[.]net. A mysterious group with links to Lazarus and an unusual financial motivation for an APT. Archive file and its contents. abiesvc.jp[.]net.

Cryptocurrency 145

Cryptocurrency Malware Accountability Banking 145

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.

Phishing 40

Phishing Social Engineering Engineering Healthcare 40

ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys. This was a software flaw.

Software 52

Software Passwords Internet Internet 52

ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys. This was a software flaw.

Software 52

Software Passwords Internet Internet 52

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Normally account take overs are due to insecure passwords or recovery options, this is definitely something different. — Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) February 17, 2016. " — Paul Asadoorian (@securityweekly) June 7, 2016. — Dave Kennedy (@HackingDave) July 15, 2020. Eugene Kaspersky | @e_kaspersky.

Accountability 139

Accountability Cybersecurity Penetration Testing InfoSec 139

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. Web sessions and user passwords saved in the browser are available in hVNC sessions.

Banking 145

Banking Passwords VPN Internet 145

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1962 — Allan Scherr — MIT sets up the first computer passwords, for student privacy and time limits. Student Allan Scherr makes a punch card to trick the computer into printing off all passwords and uses them to log in as other people after his time runs out. She connects him to any phone number he requests for free.

Cybercrime 135

Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135

Lenny Zeltser

MAY 3, 2019

campaigns from around 2016. Use a password vault, avoiding password reuse. Change default passwords for devices and apps. Lock down domain registrar and DNS settings. To understand the basis for these recommendations, read the documents mentioned at the end of the post. Similar dynamics apply to other countries.

Cybersecurity 111

Cybersecurity Social Engineering Authentication Software 111