Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2020

The Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck announced that threat actors have accessed their account at the Oname.com domain registrar and hijacked one of its domain names. ” According to the Japanese security expert Masafumi Negishi, threat actors modified the primary DNS entry for the coincheck.com domain. ????????????

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Troy Hunt

JULY 19, 2018

pic.twitter.com/WPez1SXYmD — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) June 27, 2018. Do get these right per the Microsoft article above, it'll ensure production traffic is hitting production storage accounts and other services you want handled separately between that environment and the staging one.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

In 2018, security intelligence firm HYAS discovered a malware network communicating with systems inside of a French national power company. When it didn’t hear from French authorities after almost a week, HYAS asked the dynamic DNS provider to “ sinkhole ” the malware network’s control servers.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 29, 2024

A Microsoft SmartScreen vulnerability from earlier this year resurfaced, and a Docker flaw from 2018 is still causing issues in a newer version of the software. Docker Vulnerability First Originated in 2018 Type of vulnerability: Authorization bypass. This vulnerability was actually discovered in 2018 and fixed in 2019.

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Internet Internet Accountability Software 109

Troy Hunt

JULY 21, 2021

Let's start with a poll: At your place of work, does your employer have the right to access the contents of your corporate email account if necessary? But there's also a lot of consistency, for example, here's a piece on whether it's legal to access an employee's email account in Australia : The short answer is yes.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 3, 2023

However, searching passive DNS records at DomainTools.com for thedomainsvault[.]com Searching on ubsagency@gmail.com in Constella Intelligence shows the address was used sometime before February 2019 to create an account under the name “ SammySam_Alon ” at the interior decorating site Houzz.com. Thedomainsvault[.]com

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Maybe they're plugging into the API directly from the account page there? And just in case you're wondering, the host name in the image where DNS didn't resolve is different to the final scam site as a lot of these phishes bounce you around across multiple domains. So what about DNS over HTTPS, or DoH ?

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The hackers were able to change the Domain Name System (DNS) records for the transaction brokering site escrow.com so that it pointed to an address in Malaysia that was host to just a few other domains, including the then brand-new phishing domain servicenow-godaddy[.]com.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Experts attribute the attack to a known threat actor tracked as xHunt , aka Hive0081, which was first discovered in 2018. The TriFive backdoor uses an email-based channel that uses Exchange Web Services (EWS) to create drafts within the Deleted Items folder of a compromised email account.” <C2 domain>.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2023

” Infoblox determined that until May 2023, domains ending in.info accounted for the bulk of new registrations tied to the malicious link shortening service, which Infoblox has dubbed “ Prolific Puma.” As far back as 2018, Interisle found.US domains registered daily.US and illicit or harmful content.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2019

But when accounts at those CRM providers get hacked or phished, the results can be damaging for both the client’s brand and their customers. based United Rentals [ NYSE:URI ] is the world’s largest equipment rental company, with some 18,000 employees and earnings of approximately $4 billion in 2018. Stamford, Ct.-based

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BH Consulting

JULY 17, 2024

One of the largest tech companies, Amazon Web Services, has now made it mandatory for privileged accounts. Security Week reported that Mandiant’s investigation traced the incident back to stolen credentials and found that targeted accounts weren’t using MFA. MFA is seen as a critical control in reducing the risk of account takeovers.

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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 guru show that in 2018 the domains were forwarding incoming email to the address obelisk57@gmail.com. .” Crypt[.]guru’s biz and crypt[.]guru ” Meanwhile, the Jabber address masscrypt@exploit.im

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2019

According to Dragos, the Hexane group has been active since at least the middle of 2018, it intensified its activity since early 2019 with an escalation of tensions within the Middle East. Lyceum was observed using password spraying and brute-force attacks to compromise email accounts of targeted individuals.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2018

million) in just in 2 days. · CVE-2018-14023 – Recovering expired messages from Signal. · Linux Kernel Project rolled out security updates to fix two DoS vulnerabilities. · 2.6 billion records exposed in 2,308 disclosed data breaches in H1. · Marap modular downloader opens the doors to further attacks.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Security experts at Cybaze – Yoroi ZLab have analyzed a new sample of the AdvisorsBot malware, a downloader that was first spotted in August 2018. Other interesting function is “j2aYhH”: Figure 8 – Accounts and emails stealing. This function searches for all email accounts registered on victim machine.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In 2019, someone hacked BriansClub and relieved the fraud shop of more than 26 million stolen payment cards — an estimated one-third of the 87 million payment card accounts that were on sale across all underground shops at that time. The BriansClub login page, as it looked from late 2019 until recently.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

As I noted in 2015, The Manipulaters Team used domain name service (DNS) settings from another blatantly fraudulent service called ‘ FreshSpamTools[.]eu As I noted in 2015, The Manipulaters Team used domain name service (DNS) settings from another blatantly fraudulent service called ‘ FreshSpamTools[.]eu Bilal Waddaich).

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 25, 2018

On August 7, 2018, a user on the forum of free email service hMailServer posted a copy of the sextortion email he received, noting that it included a password he’d formerly used online. All of those two-name domains used domain name servers (DNS servers) from uscourtsgov-dot-com at the time these emails were sent.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

agarwal_mohit) January 5, 2018. I think the URL is right but it seems inaccessible from other countries: [link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) January 9, 2018. Security /= George blocking — Vatsalya Goel (@vatsalyagoel) January 9, 2018. They claim that they're hack-proof. Can you prove otherwise? travelling).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2019

“In November 2018, TA505 , a prolific actor that has been at the forefront of this trend, began distributing a new backdoor we named “ServHelper”. “On December 13, 2018, we observed another large ServHelper “downloader” campaign targeting retail and financial services customers.” DOC , PUB, and. WIZ documents.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

InsightIDR comes with several dashboard views that give administrators visibility into network activity like firewall traffic, blocked traffic by port and IP, total DNS traffic, and DNS queries. Insight Connect helps automate several IT processes, improves indicators, and comes with 200+ plugins. Rapid7 Competitors.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Valid Accounts [ T1178 ]. Account Discovery [ T1087 ]. Valid Accounts [ T1078 ]. Valid Accounts [ T1078 ]. Valid Accounts [ T1078 ]. Much of this traffic is comprised of suspicious DNS queries, which point to known or likely Command and Control sites. CVE-2018-10562. CVE-2018-7600. Percent of.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2023

Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance is a protocol that was first proposed in January 2012 and widely adopted in 2018 by the U.S. A DMARC policy is included in a DNS record for a given domain, enabling the sender to specify if messages are protected by SPF or DKIM. How Does DMARC Work?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

group_b : from August 2017 to January 2018 3. group_c : from January 2018 to February 2018 4. Indeed during the group_a, the main observed delivery techniques where about Phishing (rif.T1193) and Valid Accounts (rif.T1078). group_a : from 2016 to August 2017 2.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 8, 2023

This article explores: What Is Email Security Best Options to Secure Business Email Email Security Best Practices How Email Security Blocks Threats Bottom Line: Email Security What Is Email Security Email security is a concept that protects email accounts, servers, and communications from unauthorized access, data loss, or compromise.

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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. Attacks in 2018 Victim Organization January City of Farmington, New Mexico February Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) March City of Atlanta, Georgia July LabCorp, U.S.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

After obtaining a valid account, they use this account to access the victim’s VPN, Citrix or another remote service that allows access to the network of the victim. Information regarding these remotes services is taken from the mailbox, cloud drive, or other cloud resources accessible by the compromised account.

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Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

Hackers were also quick to pounce on the disruption caused by the 2018 shutdown of the U.S. Hackers posing as Coincheck.com employees contacted the company’s customers and requested their account credentials. As Zoom use skyrocketed with the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, there was an immediate jump in lookalike domain names.

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Hacking Retail Cyber Insurance Authentication 130

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Compared to its predecessors, the sixth “Hi-Tech Crime Trends” report is the first to contain chapters devoted to the main industries attacked and covers the period from H2 2018 to H1 2019, as compared to the period from H2 2017 to H1 2018. As for 2019, it has become the year of covert military operations in cyberspace.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2021

According to the DNS data analysis, this name was used to register at least two domains, which were created using the email from the phishing kit. A total of five email addresses associated with the accused were identified, along with six nicknames, and his accounts on Skype, Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The OopsIE Trojan is one of the malware in the APT’s arsenal that was detected for the first time in February 2018. “In July 2018 , we reported on a wave of OilRig attacks delivering a tool called QUADAGENT involving a Middle Eastern government agency. ” reads the analysis published by Paolo Alto Network.

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Government Phishing Malware Advertising 74

SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This archive is discreetly hosted on legitimate websites, cleverly disguised as firmware binaries for enigmatic devices labeled “m100” The Bitbucket repository was created on June 21, 2018, under the account of Julie Heilman, and it remains the sole repository associated with this profile.

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Malware DNS Encryption Cryptocurrency 121

McAfee

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

In this case, SolarWinds knew as far back as 2018, early 2019, that they had a registration domain registered for it already. And they didn’t even give it a DNS look up until almost a year later. The majority of this tactic took place from a C2 perspective through the partial exfiltration being done using DNS.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2021

Recent UEFI attacks include a 2015 attack on a Ukrainian power grid and a 2018 attack where threat actors used a UEFI rootkit to drop additional malware in an extended episode. With initial access to a gateway, hackers can move laterally to an on-premises server, leading them to the internal DNS and Active Directory.

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Software DNS Firmware VPN 119

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

The unwanted behavior was spotted by a security researcher that goes online with Twitter account Privacy 1st , he discovered that Adware Doctor would gather browsing history from the Safari, Chrome, and the Firefox browsers, the search history on the App Store, and a list of running processes.

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Adware DNS Malware Advertising 74

CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 21, 2021

Back in 2018, almost two-thirds of the small businesses suffered from cyber security attacks. . There are different kinds of cyber attacks that are faced by small businesses, including malware, phishing, SQL injection, DNS tunneling, and more. In fact, Phishing alone accounts for 90% of small business cyber attacks.

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