Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2020

US DHS CISA urges government agencies to patch SIGRed Windows Server DNS vulnerability within 24h due to the likelihood of the issue being exploited. on the CVSS scale and affects Windows Server versions 2003 to 2019. The SigRed flaw was discovered by Check Point researcher Sagi Tzaik and impacts Microsoft Windows DNS.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Having said that I found Income Tax Department India and MIT Sloan was also vulnerable to CVE-2019-0604 a remote code execution vulnerability which exists in Microsoft SharePoint. To verify this I’ve sent a crafted payload which enable the remote server (incometaxindia.gov.in) to perform a DNS lookup on my burp collaborator.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2021

For the second month in a row, Microsoft has patched scary flaws in the DNS servers on Windows Server 2008 through 2019 versions that could be used to remotely install software of the attacker’s choice. “There is the outside chance this could be wormable between DNS servers,” warned Trend Micro’s Dustin Childs.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2019

I had the chance at RSA 2019 to discuss the wider implications with Don Shin, A10 Networks’ senior product marketing manager. The Spamhaus attacker, for instance, noticed that there were literally millions of domain name system (DNS) resolvers that remained wide open all over the internet. A10 Networks’ report found 6.3 Beyond DDoS.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

On December 23, 2019, unknown attackers began contacting customer support people at OpenProvider , a popular domain name registrar based in The Netherlands. 23, 2019, the e-hawk.net domain was transferred to a reseller account within OpenProvider. ” Dijkxhoorn shared records obtained from OpenProvider showing that on Dec.

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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

JULY 14, 2019

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued a security advisory to warn organizations of DNS hijacking attacks and provided recommendations this type of attack. In response to the numerous DNS hijacking attacks the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued an alert to warn organizations of this type of attack.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2019

DHS has issued a notice of a CISA emergency directive urging federal agencies of improving the security of government-managed domains (i.e.gov) to prevent DNS hijacking attacks. The notice was issued by the DHS and links the emergency directive Emergency Directive 19-01 titled “Mitigate DNS Infrastructure Tampering.”.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 6, 2019

In 2019, we’ve seen a surge in domain name service (DNS) hijacking attempts and have relayed warnings from the U.S. In the enterprise environment, domain names, DNS, and certificates are the lifeline to any internet-based application including websites, email, apps, virtual private networks (VPNs), voice over IP (VoIP) and more.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), charged with overseeing Domain Name Systems (DNS), published an announcement that companies have moved too slowly to adopt security standards that would have mitigated several recent large-scale cyberattacks. This practice is called “DNS hijacking.”.

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Bleeping Computer

APRIL 29, 2024

A new cluster of activity tracked as "Muddling Meerkat" is believed to be linked to a Chinese state-sponsored threat actor's manipulation of DNS to probe networks globally since October 2019, with a spike in activity observed in September 2023. [.]

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Your Web browser knows how to find a Web site name like example.com thanks to the global Domain Name System (DNS), which serves as a kind of phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly Web site names (example.com) into numeric Internet address that are easier for computers to manage. ” SAY WHAT? 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2019

Security expert uncovered a DNS hijacking campaign targeting organizations in various industries worldwide and suspects Iranian APT groups. “ Experts monitored the activities of threat actors between January 2017 and January 2019. . “ Experts monitored the activities of threat actors between January 2017 and January 2019.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

on the CVSS scale and affects Windows Server versions 2003 to 2019. The SigRed flaw was discovered by Check Point researcher Sagi Tzaik and impacts Microsoft Windows DNS. An attacker could exploit the SigRed vulnerability by sending specially-crafted malicious DNS queries to a Windows DNS server.

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Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 9, 2019

million to restore services after each DNS attack. A new study says financial services organizations experienced an average of 10 attacks a year and spent an average of $1.3

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Additionally, Microsoft released an advisory on how to minimize the risk from a DNS spoofing weakness in Windows Server 2008 through 2019. These vulnerabilities affect Microsoft Excel 2013 through 2019, Microsoft 365 32 and 64 bit versions, Microsoft Office 2019 32 and 64 bit versions, and Microsoft Excel for Mac 2019.”

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Cyber Defense Magazine September 2019 Edition has arrived. In addition, we’re shooting for 7x24x365 uptime as we continue to scale with improved Web App Firewalls, Content Deliver Networks (CDNs) around the Globe, Faster and More Secure DNS and CyberDefenseMagazineBackup.com up and running as an array of live mirror sites.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2019

Cyber Defense Magazine August 2019 Edition has arrived. In addition, we’re shooting for 7x24x365 uptime as we continue to scale with improved Web App Firewalls, Content Deliver Networks (CDNs) around the Globe, Faster and More Secure DNS and CyberDefenseMagazineBackup.com up and running as an array of live mirror sites.

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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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PerezBox Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

In September of 2019 Mozilla will begin releasing DNS over HTTPS (DOH) in Firefox via their Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) program. A primer on DNS Security. The post Mozilla Introduces Mechanism to Hijack all DNS Traffic in the Name of Privacy appeared first on PerezBox. The change is based.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2019

Cyber Defense Magazine July 2019 Edition has arrived. Cyber Defense Magazine July 2019 Edition has arrived. The post Cyber Defense Magazine – July 2019 has arrived. We hope you enjoy this month’s edition…packed with over 168 pages of excellent content. Please read it and share it with your friends.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A key concern for enterprises is another critical bug in the DNS server on Windows Server 2008 through 2019 versions that could be used to remotely install software of the attacker’s choice. CVE-2021-24078 earned a CVSS Score of 9.8, which is about as dangerous as they come.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2024

Volexity researchers reported that a China-linked APT group, tracked as StormBamboo (aka Evasive Panda , Daggerfly , and StormCloud), successfully compromised an undisclosed internet service provider (ISP) in order to poison DNS responses for target organizations. The company linked the attacks to StormBamboo APT group.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

HYAS said it quickly notified the French national computer emergency team and the FBI about its findings, which pointed to a dynamic domain name system (DNS) provider on which the purveyors of this attack campaign relied for their various malware servers. ‘FATAL’ ERROR.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 18, 2020

In the initial phases, the Sunburst malware talks to the C&C server by sending encoded DNS requests. These requests contain information about the infected computer; if the attackers deem it interesting enough, the DNS response includes a CNAME record pointing to a second level C&C server. avsvmcloud[.]com” avsvmcloud[.]com”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Crooks were able to trick GoDaddy staff into handing over control of crypto-biz domain names in a classic DNS hijacking attack. Crooks were able to hijack traffic and email to various cryptocurrency-related websites as a result of a DNS hijacking attack on domains managed by GoDaddy. SecurityAffairs – hacking, DNS hijacking).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2019

Researchers detected Roaming Mantis-related malware over 6,800 times for more than 950 unique users in the period between February 25 and March 20, 2019. Attackers used a new method of phishing with malicious mobile configurations along with previously observed DNS manipulation technique.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In August, Volexity researchers reported that a China-linked APT group, tracked as StormBamboo (aka Evasive Panda , Daggerfly , and StormCloud), successfully compromised an undisclosed internet service provider (ISP) in order to poison DNS responses for target organizations. The company linked the attacks to StormBamboo APT group.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2019

The campaign uncovered by Avast aimed at silently modifying the Brazilian users’ Domain Name System (DNS) settings to redirect victims to malicious websites mimicking legitimate ones. In some cases the router is reconfigured to use rogue DNS servers, which redirect victims to phishing pages that closely look like real online banking sites.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 18, 2021

During the live program, we presented our research into the Lyceum group (also known as Hexane), which was first exposed by Secureworks in 2019. As in the older DanBot instances, both variants supported similar custom C&C protocols tunneled over DNS or HTTP.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

They use DNS tunneling for stealthier C&C communications, and place execution guardrails on the malicious components to hide the malware from security researchers.” 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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2019

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.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The experts are monitoring the Mirai-based botnet since November 2019 and observed it exploiting two Tenda router 0-day vulnerabilities to spread a Remote Access Trojan (RAT). ” When the botnet was first detected in 2019, experts noticed it was exploiting the Tenda zero-day flaw tracked as CVE-2020-10987.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2019

In April, the researcher Nick Cano discovered that BlueStacks versions prior than v4.90.0.1046 are affected by a DNS rebinding vulnerability that allowed attackers to gain access to the emulator’s IPC functions. BlueStacks addressed the flaw with the release 4.90.0.1046 available since May 27th, 2019.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

In May 2019, the experts noticed that the group started using hacked email addresses of numerous high-profile targets to send credential spam messages. The group was observed using this scheme between 2019 and 2020, and according to the experts, most of the compromised email accounts belong to defense companies in the Middle East.

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