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French Firms Rocked by Kasbah Hacker?

Krebs on Security

HYAS said it quickly notified the French national computer emergency team and the FBI about its findings, which pointed to a dynamic domain name system (DNS) provider on which the purveyors of this attack campaign relied for their various malware servers. ‘FATAL’ ERROR. to for a user named “ fatal.001.” ”

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Iran-linked APT34: Analyzing the webmask project

Security Affairs

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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APT34: Glimpse project

Security Affairs

Indeed we might observe a File-based command and control (a quite unusual solution) structure, a VBS launcher, a PowerShell Payload and a covert channel over DNS engine. According to Duo, “ OilRig delivered Trojans that use DNS tunneling for command and control in attacks since at least May 2016. It is not a TXT request.

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OilRig APT group: the evolution of attack techniques over time

Security Affairs

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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Kali Linux 2016.1 Release - Rolling Edition

Kali Linux

After 5 months of testing our rolling distribution (and its supporting infrastructure), we’re confident in its reliability - giving our users the best of all worlds - the stability of Debian, together with the latest versions of the many outstanding penetration testing tools created and shared by the information security community.

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New Linux/DDosMan threat emerged from an evolution of the older Elknot

Security Affairs

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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Responder: Beyond WPAD

NopSec

Penetration testing demands a diverse skill set to effectively navigate and defeat security controls within the evaluated environment. LLMNR is derived from DNS protocol, and is intended to enable hosts on a local network to easily perform name resolution. In most organizations a WPAD host does not exist.

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