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The makers of Acunetix, Texas-based application security vendor Invicti Security , confirmed Silent Push’s findings, saying someone had figured out how to crack the free trial version of the software so that it runs without a valid license key. That user, “ Exorn ,” has posts dating back to August 2018.
The China-linked threat actors Muddling Meerkat are manipulating DNS to probe networks globally since 2019. Infoblox researchers observed China-linked threat actors Muddling Meerkat using sophisticated DNS activities since 2019 to bypass traditional security measures and probe networks worldwide. ” concludes the report.
Iran-linked Lyceum APT group uses a new.NET-based DNS backdoor to target organizations in the energy and telecommunication sectors. The Iran-linked Lyceum APT group, aka Hexane or Spilrin, used a new.NET-based DNS backdoor in a campaign aimed at companies in the energy and telecommunication sectors, ZScaler researchers warn.
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. Download the Yoroi Cyber Security Report 2018. SecurityAffairs – Yoroi Cyber Security Annual Report, malware).
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
Researchers at Network Security Research Lab of Qihoo 360 discovered a Lua-based backdoor dubbed Godlua that targets both Linux and Windows systems. The peculiarity of this new piece of malware is the ability to communicate with C2 servers via DNS over HTTPS ( DoH ). com domain. ” states the analysis. ” states the analysis.
” 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. .”
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.
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.
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.”
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
Later the experts discovered that Crackonosh was also able to disable antivirus software from other major security vendors to avoid detection, including Windows Defender and Windows Update. The full list of IoCs: Avast IoC repository The list of URLs obtaining TXT DNS records: network.txt The list of common file names: filenames.txt.
Security researchers at ESET recently uncovered a campaign carried out by the InvisiMole group that has been targeting a small number of high-profile organizations in the military sector and diplomatic missions in Eastern Europe. The downloader communicates with C2 servers using DNS tunneling.
The cybercrime organization was first spotted in April 2018 by researchers at Cisco Talos, earlier 2019 researchers from Palo Alto Networks Unit42 found new malware samples used by the Rocke group for cryptojacking that uninstalls from Linux servers cloud security and monitoring products developed by Tencent Cloud and Alibaba Cloud. .
According to the “The National Digital Economy Program” bill submitted to Parliament in 2018, Russian Internet service providers (ISPs) should ensure operations even if nation-state actors carry out cyber attacks to isolate Russia from the Internet. ” reported ZDNet.
Security experts from Palo Alto Networks have spotted two never-before-detected Powershell backdoors while investigating an attack on Microsoft Exchange servers at an organization in Kuwait. Experts attribute the attack to a known threat actor tracked as xHunt , aka Hive0081, which was first discovered in 2018. <C2 domain>.
.” According to the Japanese security expert Masafumi Negishi, threat actors modified the primary DNS entry for the coincheck.com domain. ???????????? Coincheck uses Amazon’s managed DNS service, the attackers first registered a fake domain to the AWS server and replaced the legitimate awsdns-61.org NS ????????????
The attack chain against the routers starts with brute-force attacks or by exploiting the CVE-2018-14847 flaw that allows reading a file that contains passwords. Microsoft has analyzed how the malware compromised MikroTik routers and developed a tool to detect signs of compromise. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.
“On November 25 2018, the capeturk.com domain expired and was registered by a Vietnamese individual. Others appear to be the infrastructure owned by the threat group, judging by multiple hostnames , DNS data, etc. Evidence collected by Cybereason suggests the threat actors could have a Vietnam e se origin. ” . .
Attackers also noticed that systems infected with the above two families were also targeted with the RoyalDNS malware that uses DNS to communicate with the C&C server. Once executed the command the backdoor returns output through DNS.
The 2018 hack of the Institute for Statecraft, a UK think tank engaged in initiatives to safeguard democracy against disinformation. Once notified, the DNS provider took action to mitigate actor-controlled domains abusing their service. The theft of UK-US trade documents leaked before the 2019 General Election.
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.
The operations described by QiAnXin are attributed to an APT group active since at least April 2018. The threat actors also used dynamic DNS services to manage a pool of 70 different domain names (and also register new ones on a regular basis) that are dynamically assigned to IP addresses.
Security experts at Dragos Inc. 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. The malware uses DNS and HTTP-based communication mechanisms. Another tool used by the group is kl.
The sized sites were at jstash.bazar, jstash.lib, jstash.emc, and jstash.coin, which are all those accessible via blockchain DNS. “Since 2015 almost $400 million in bitcoin was sent to the marketplace, with annual sales peaking at $139 million in 2018. ” continues Elliptic.
Then the backdoor contacts the command-and-control (C2) server to downloads and executes other malicious payloads, including the TunnelMole, malware that abuses the DNS protocol to establish a tunnel for malicious purposes, and RC2FM and RC2CL. The LoadEdge backdoor maintains persistence through the Windows registry.
” The GALLIUM threat actor is active, but its activity was more intense between 2018 and mid-2019. The operators leverage on low cost and easy to replace infrastructure using dynamic-DNS domains and regularly reused hop points. GALLIUM is one of many ActivityGroups we see targeting telcos through SE Asia + Europe + Africa.
Trustwave SpiderLabs has not yet been able to obtain a copy of this file and is requesting assistance from our readers to contact us at goldenspy@trustwave.com if they have information on this file or a sample for us to analyze.” ” Experts speculate GoldenHelper was active from January 2018 until July 2019.
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15, 2018, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) charged then 27-year-old Bloom, of Thornhill, Ontario, with selling stolen personal identities online through the website LeakedSource[.]com. A review of passive DNS records from DomainTools indicates that in 2013 pictrace[.]com Jordan Evan Bloom, posing in front of his Lamborghini.
group_b : from August 2017 to January 2018 3. group_c : from January 2018 to February 2018 4. T1094) mainly developed using DNS resolutions (which is actually one of the main characteristic of the attacker group). group_a : from 2016 to August 2017 2.
The group that has been active since late 2015 targeted businesses worldwide to steal payment card information. In August 2018, three members of the notorious cybercrime gang have been indicted and charged with 26 felony counts of conspiracy, wire fraud, computer hacking, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.
Roaming Mantis surfaced in March 2018 when hacked routers in Japan redirecting users to compromised websites. Since then, the criminal group has continued its attack activities by using various malware families such as HEUR:Trojan-Dropper.AndroidOS.Wroba, and various attack methods such as phishing, mining, smishing and DNS poisoning.
Prior to April 2018, Silence’s target interests were primarily limited to 25 post-Soviet states and neighboring countries. Since the report “Silence: Moving into the darkside” was released in September 2018, Group-IB’s Threat Intelligence team has detected at least 16 new campaigns targeting banks launched by Silence.
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. As of now, the informationsecurity industry is at the outset of implementing SBOM for software products. Also Read: How to Prevent DNS Attacks.
“Lancefly’s custom malware, which we have dubbed Merdoor, is a powerful backdoor that appears to have existed since 2018.” The intelligence-gathering campaign started in mid-2022 and is likely still ongoing. ” reads the analysis published by Symantec.
Enable security options according to your provider’s recommendations (e.g., the G Suite security checklist ). Lock down domain registrar and DNS settings. Tighten your domain configuration. Place websites behind a reputable cloud or plugin-based web application firewall (WAF). For background details, review these sources.
Sodin Ransomware includes exploit for Windows CVE-2018-8453 bug. Godlua backdoor, the first malware that abuses the DNS over HTTPS (DoH). Tens of VMware Products affected by SACK Panic and SACK Slowness flaws. Updates for Samsung, the scam app with 10M+ downloads. Cryptomining Campaign involves Golang malware to target Linux servers.
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. Over the period from 2009 to 2018, the threat actor defaced over 130 web pages. The further analysis of Dr Hex’ digital footprint revealed his association with other malicious activities.
Few weeks ago, Unit42 discovered another active campaign , compatible with the Roma225 one we tracked on December 2018, pointing to some interesting changes into the attackers TTPs. Since December 2018, we are following the tracks of this ambiguous cyber criminal group, internally referenced as TH-173. Conclusion.
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