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A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks

Krebs on Security

27, 2018, Cisco’s Talos research division published a write-up outlining the contours of a sophisticated cyber espionage campaign it dubbed “ DNSpionage.” Talos reported that these DNS hijacks also paved the way for the attackers to obtain SSL encryption certificates for the targeted domains (e.g. PASSIVE DNS.

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Web Hacking Service ‘Araneida’ Tied to Turkish IT Firm

Krebs on Security

The cracked software is being resold as a cloud-based attack tool by at least two different services, one of which KrebsOnSecurity traced to an information technology firm based in Turkey. 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.

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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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Stronger DNS Security Stymies Would-Be Criminals

Dark Reading

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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Local Networks Go Global When Domain Names Collide

Krebs on Security

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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