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A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks

Krebs on Security

government — along with a number of leading security companies — recently warned about a series of highly complex and widespread attacks that allowed suspected Iranian hackers to siphon huge volumes of email passwords and other sensitive data from multiple governments and private companies. PASSIVE DNS.

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Web Hacking Service ‘Araneida’ Tied to Turkish IT Firm

Krebs on Security

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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Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com

Krebs on Security

In July 2018, email users around the world began complaining of receiving spam which began with a password the recipient used at some point in the past and threatened to release embarrassing videos of the recipient unless a bitcoin ransom was paid. 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax. ” SAY WHAT? domaincontrol.com, and ns18.domaincontrol.com.

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Phish of GoDaddy Employee Jeopardized Escrow.com, Among Others

Krebs on Security

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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Roaming Mantis implements new DNS changer in its malicious mobile app in 2022

SecureList

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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Padlocks, Phishing and Privacy; The Value Proposition of a VPN

Troy Hunt

The last bit is particularly important as I logon and would firstly, like my password not to be eavesdropped on and secondly, would also like to keep my financial information on the website secure. So what about DNS over HTTPS, or DoH ?

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Roaming Mantis uses new DNS changer in its Wroba mobile malware

Security Affairs

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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