SecureList

JANUARY 19, 2023

Kaspersky has been investigating the actor’s activity throughout 2022, and we observed a DNS changer function used for getting into Wi-Fi routers and undertaking DNS hijacking. At that time, the criminals compromised Wi-Fi routers for use in DNS hijacking, which is a very effective technique. Agent.eq (a.k.a

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2019

Yoroi Cyber Security Annual Report 2018 – In 2018 cyber-security experts observed an increased number of cyber attacks, malware endure to be the most aggressive and pervasive threat. Yoroi Cyber Security Annual Report 2018 analyzes the evolution of the threat landscape observed between January 2018 and December 2018.

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The State of Security

MARCH 31, 2022

While there were plenty of interesting topics taught, one that caught my attention was Out-of-Band (OOB) Data Exfiltration using DNS. Back in 2018, NotSoSecure published an Out of Band Exploitation (OOB) CheatSheet. The post Out of Band (OOB) Data Exfiltration via DNS appeared first on The State of Security.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

PT Monday evening, Escrow.com’s website looked radically different: Its homepage was replaced with a crude message in plain text: The profanity-laced message left behind by whoever briefly hijacked the DNS records for escrow.com. Running a reverse DNS lookup on this 111.90.149[.]49 Image: Escrow.com.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

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 ? With the DNS dance done, what's the impact on privacy then?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2023

Roaming Mantis threat actors were observed using a new variant of their mobile malware Wroba to hijack DNS settings of Wi-Fi routers. Researchers from Kaspersky observed Roaming Mantis threat actors using an updated variant of their mobile malware Wroba to compromise Wi-Fi routers and hijack DNS settings. Agent.eq (a.k.a

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2019

The peculiarity of this new piece of malware is the ability to communicate with C2 servers via DNS over HTTPS ( DoH ). The DoH protocol was a new standard proposed in October 2018 and it is currently supported by several publicly available DNS servers. com domain. ” states the analysis. ” states the analysis.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

” Our research shows that this actor has been targeting the aviation industry since at least 2018, with files mentioning both “Trip Itinerary Details” and “Bombardier” at the time using the URL akconsult[.]linkpc[.]net.” ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. .”

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Troy Hunt

JULY 12, 2018

— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) July 5, 2018. For example, check out how it's used when embedded in the TXT record of a DNS entry which is then loaded into a WHOIS service which doesn't properly output encode the results. This is from CVE-2018-12529 and the sample exploit was taken from the SecurityResearch101 blog. Is it needed?

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) September 5, 2018. I'm going to keep the intro bits as brief as possible but, in a nutshell, Pi-hole is a little DNS server you run on a Raspberry Pi in your local network then point your router at such that every device in your home resolves DNS through the service.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 7, 2019

2018 saw a reduced number of huge DNS-facilitated DDoS attacks. Vendors and service providers believe that malicious impact will drop with continued technology improvements.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In a complaint unsealed today, the Justice Department said that although FBI agents identified at least 60 different booter services operating between June and December 2018, they discovered not all were fully operational and capable of launching attacks. That way, when the DNS servers respond, they reply to the spoofed (target) address.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 19, 2018

pic.twitter.com/WPez1SXYmD — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) June 27, 2018. Onto the next piece and per the title, it's going to involve DNS rollover. As such, I need to roll DNS to go from pointing to one Function app to another one. for you guys to do 54M searches against a repository of half a billion passwords ??

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 19, 2023

The Domain Name System (DNS) is often referred to as the phone book of the internet. DNS translates web addresses, which people use, into IP addresses, which machines use. But DNS was not designed with security in mind. This has only worsened with the adoption of encrypted DNS, known as DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH).

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 14, 2022

.” In such assaults, the perpetrators leverage unmanaged Domain Name Servers (DNS) or other devices on the Web to create huge traffic floods. Ideally, DNS servers only provide services to machines within a trusted domain — such as translating an Internet address from a series of numbers into a domain name, like example.com.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 1, 2022

Double DNS Usage- Whenever a DDoS attack occurs on DNS Service, all your online systems will get disrupted. Maintaining a second DNS provider as a fail-over can help mitigate risks associated with DNS downtime, as one can take over the operations to keep the online services alive.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 23, 2024

A core part of the way these things find each other involves a Windows feature called “ DNS name devolution ,” a kind of network shorthand that makes it easier to find other computers or servers without having to specify a full, legitimate domain name for those resources. Alas, in 2018, the.llc TLD was born and began selling domains.

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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. — Khas Mek (@KhasMek) January 10, 2018. FergusInLondon) January 10, 2018.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2018

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) announced the presence of a serious flaw in the BIND DNS software that can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2018-5740 was discovered by Tony Finch of the University of Cambridge. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2022

While there were plenty of interesting topics taught, one that caught my attention was Out-of-Band (OOB) Data Exfiltration using DNS. Back in 2018, NotSoSecure published an Out of Band Exploitation (OOB) CheatSheet. The post Out of Band (OOB) Data Exfiltration via DNS appeared first on The State of Security. One […]… Read More.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The list includes Amazon (banned in 2018), Google (2018), Microsoft (2022), and Cloudflare (2015). For a “normal” connection to a website, a Domian Name System (DNS) finds the IP address for the requested domain name. They are also known as content distribution networks.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The flaw discovered by SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab researchers has been tracked as CVE-2018-9195, the experts also published a proof-of-concept (PoC) code to trigger it. “ Fortinet products, including FortiGate and Forticlient regularly send information to Fortinet servers (DNS: guard.fortinet.com) on.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 27, 2018

This is borne out by Akamai Technologies’ Summer 2018 Internet Security/Web Attack Report. I had the chance to visit with Don Shin, A10 Networks’ Senior Product Marketing Manager, at Black Hat USA 2018. A10 is a leading supplier of advanced DDoS detection and mitigation systems.

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Dark Reading

MAY 16, 2018

The average cost of a DNS attack in the US has climbed 57% over the last year to $654,000 in 2018, a survey from EfficientIP shows.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2021

The Windows botnet has been active since late 2017, it was mainly used to mine cryptocurrency, but it was also involved in DDoS attacks in 2018. Communication with C&C servers is based on DNS requests and it uses a special mechanism translating DNS results to a real IP address. ” concludes the analysis.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

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. Ryuk first appeared in the threat landscape in August 2018 as a derivative of the Hermes 2.1

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Troy Hunt

JULY 21, 2021

Not only do they control the access rights to the mailbox, they also control DNS and MX records therefore they control the routing of emails. But what's not nuanced and not up for debate is whether the employer has the ability to inspect the email accounts on their domains.

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2019

Roaming Mantis surfaced in March 2018 when hacked routers in Japan redirecting users to compromised websites. Attackers used a new method of phishing with malicious mobile configurations along with previously observed DNS manipulation technique. We have seen increased distribution of sagawa.apk Type A since late February 2019.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

“In August 2018, Unit 42 observed OilRig targeting a government organization using spear-phishing emails to deliver an updated version of a Trojan known as BONDUPDATER. As expected, OilRig is continuing their onslaught of attacks well into 2018 with continued targeting in the Middle East.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

The group was first spotted by ESET in 2018, when the experts detected a sophisticated piece of spyware, tracked as InvisiMole, used in targeted attacks in Russia and Ukraine in the previous five years. Experts also observed attackers using a DNS downloader that was designed for long-term, covert access to the target machine.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 12, 2021

For several years, Cisco Secure provided DNS visibility and architecture intelligence with Cisco Umbrella and Cisco Umbrella Investigate ; and automated malware analysis and threat intelligence with Cisco Secure Malware Analytics (Threat Grid) , backed by Cisco Talos Intelligence and Cisco SecureX. DNS traffic at Record Low.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2019

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 While phony invoices are a common malware lure, this particular campaign sent users to a page on United Rentals’ own Web site (unitedrentals.com). .

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2021

Crackonosh has been active since at least June 2018, upon executing an illegal or cracked copy of legitimate software, the malicious code drops an installer and a script that modifies the Windows registry to allow the main malware executable to run in Safe mode. ” Avast published Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) for this threat.

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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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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2024

But a review of this Araneida nickname on the cybercrime forums shows they have been active in the criminal hacking scene since at least 2018. That user, “ Exorn ,” has posts dating back to August 2018. THE TURKISH CONNECTION Silent Push notes that the website where Araneida is being sold — araneida[.]co

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