Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2019

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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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

For example, the 2016 DDoS attack on the Dyn managed domain name service (DNS) caused the DNS service to fail to respond to legitimate DNS inquiries and effectively shut down major sites such as PayPal, Spotify, Twitter, Yelp, and many others. Also read: How to Secure DNS. Types of DDoS Attacks.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2022

Recently Check Point researchers reported that the infamous TrickBot malware was employed in attacks against customers of 60 financial and technology companies with new anti-analysis features. The news wave of attacks aimed at cryptocurrency firms, most of them located in the U.S. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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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. DNS requests are performed in this fashion, using either Google’s DNS server (8.8.8[.]8) 2016-12-27.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 31, 2021

A company is suing Palo Alto Networks patent infringement, alleging that their proprietary technologies were used in a number of major security products and systems sold by the cybersecurity giant. Centripetal also filed successful patent cases against Keysight Technologies and Ixia. Palo Alto).

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2020

The campaign is active since at least April 2020, but experts found some samples that suggest the attacks begun at least December 2016. “GoldenHelper malware utilizes sophisticated techniques to hide its delivery, presence, and activity. ” reads the analysis published by Trustwave.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2018

These properties make blockchain a privileged technology for different applications (i.e. Pirozzi explains that cybercriminals already have exploited blockchain in attacks in the wild, for example in the case of the popular carding store Joker’s Stash when they have adopted a peer-to-peer DNS system based on blockchain.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2019

The APT32 also targeted peripheral network security and technology infrastructure corporations, and security firms that may have connections with foreign investors. “Compared to the 2016 variants this sample introduces a configuration file and does not rely on C2 for operation. ” reads the analysis published by Cylance.

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As the needs of Black Hat evolved, so did the Cisco Secure Technologies in the NOC: Cisco SecureX : Extended Detection and Response actions / Automations. Cisco Umbrella : DNS visibility and security. The SecureX dashboard made it easy to see the status of each of the connected Cisco Secure technologies. Integrating Security.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 28, 2021

Whether perceived or real, a lack of understanding about blockchain technology has slowed the adoption of advanced distributed database technology in the past decade. We’ll look at what blockchain technology is, how its development relates to cybersecurity, and the state of blockchain-based security solutions.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 20, 2021

was released in 2016. Deploy WAF technologies and custom rules to block exploitation attempts. We recommend following the DevSecOps principle and scanning the software repositories using different SAST technologies. The exploitation attempt will use different types of services like LDAP, RMI, DNS etc.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Forcepoint has added to its CASB offerings with technology acquisitions from Imperva and Bitglass. For the Forrester Wave for Cloud Security Gateways, Imperva was a Contender in 2016 and 2017, and Forcepoint was a Strong Performer in 2021. Forcepoint Features. Native user behavioral analysis for profiling app risks and business impact.

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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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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

DNS resolutions for pool servers are cleverly concealed behind DNS over HTTPS requests to the Cloudflare DoH (DNS over HTTPS) service , adding an extra layer of stealth to its operations. August 2016: Initial leak by the Shadow Brokers group.

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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. What are the possible explanations for this?

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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. Why was WebAuthn such a major technological step in the feasibility of widespread passwordless use?

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

Bloom’s recommendation came to Biderman via Trevor Sykes, then chief technology officer for Ashley Madison parent firm Avid Life Media (ALM). A review of passive DNS records from DomainTools indicates that in 2013 pictrace[.]com The following is an email from Sykes to Biderman dated Nov. “He is supposedly hiding in St.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

In January, we reported a malicious campaign targeting companies that work with cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, decentralized finance and blockchain technology: the attackers are interested in fintech in general. The campaign has two goals: gathering information and stealing cryptocurrency.

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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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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?

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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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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. abiesvc.jp[.]net. atom.publicvm[.]com. att.gdrvupload[.]xyz.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

This approach extends far beyond assets with an IP address, however, including everything from certificates to S3 buckets to DNS misconfigurations. Founded in 2016 by Dan Tentler, Phobos has focused on conducting offensive and defensive-focused security services for its clients. Company background.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 21, 2021

From the DYN DNS attack of 2016 to more recent attacks, such as the ransomware attack against IT service provider Cognizant , every day, the news is teeming with new events that should give any business owner pause. When the lights on your business go out, now is not the time to search for the flashlight.

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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 Whaling attacks may be the most costly and damaging of the three types. billion in losses. Who’s Being Targeted?

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 25, 2020

See other zero-days Mayhem, a ForAllSecure fuzz testing technology, has found. The attacker must either be in a position to intercept and replace communication between the device and downloads.openwrt.org , or control the DNS server used by the device to make downloads.openwrt.org point to a web server controlled by the attacker.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In 2016, the Mirai botnet attack left most of the eastern U.S. Cybersecurity vendors like Panda Security suggest the best way to defend against crimeware is using a combination of antivirus, anti-spyware, firewalls, and threat detection technology. In 2008, the Kraken botnet with 495,000 bots infected 10% of the Fortune 500 companies.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Every so often, a technology comes along that seems to perfectly capture the zeitgeist : representing all that is both promising and troubling about the future. The technology is poised to change just about everything else …at least eventually. When it comes to what can you do today?

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Every so often, a technology comes along that seems to perfectly capture the zeitgeist : representing all that is both promising and troubling about the future. The technology is poised to change just about everything else …at least eventually. When it comes to what can you do today?

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Every so often, a technology comes along that seems to perfectly capture the zeitgeist : representing all that is both promising and troubling about the future. The technology is poised to change just about everything else …at least eventually. When it comes to what can you do today?

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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. Dan found a flaw that could have crippled the internet. At MIT Sloan, which is cams cms.mit.edu.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. Longtime network and system administrator Jack Daniel is a technology community activist, mentor, and storyteller. — Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) February 17, 2016.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Between August 2016 and August 2018, the researchers scanned the web for servers associated with Pegasus spyware and uncovered 36 distinct Pegasus systems in 45 countries by using a novel technique dubbed Athena. REPORTED CASES OF INDIVIDUALS TARGETED. YEAR(S) IN WHICH SPYWARE INFECTION WAS ATTEMPTED. Up to 150 (Source: Univision ) 1.

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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 retrieves the DNS names of all the directory trees in the local computer’s forest.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1903 — Wireless Telegraphy — During John Ambrose Fleming’s first public demonstration of Marconi’s “secure” wireless telegraphy technology, Nevil Maskelyne disrupts it by sending insulting Morse code messages discrediting the invention. Dateline Cybercrime . He is arrested and sentenced to 20 months in prison. billion dollars in damages.

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Lenny Zeltser

MAY 3, 2019

campaigns from around 2016. Lock down domain registrar and DNS settings. I formulated the advice above mostly based on the tactics used against 2016 and 2018 election campaigns in the United States, as publicly described by the news media, cybersecurity companies, and the U.S. Similar dynamics apply to other countries.

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The Security Ledger

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Even worse: we stand on the made up of webcams and other Internet of things as technologies like 5G bring greater bandwidth to connected endpoints. Even worse: we stand on the made up of webcams and other Internet of things as technologies like 5G bring greater bandwidth to connected endpoints. Read the whole entry. »

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