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

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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. Tips, tricks, ideas, secrets and insider information on the best practices in cybersecurity. The post Cyber Defense Magazine – July 2019 has arrived. appeared first on Security Affairs.

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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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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

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

This year, security experts at Avast have blocked more than 4.6 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. Most recently, Netflix became a popular domain for DNS hijackers.”

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 12, 2021

This requires a robust connection to the Internet (Lumen and Gigamon), firewall protection (Palo Alto Networks), segmented wireless network (Commscope Ruckus) and network full packet capture & forensics and SIEM (RSA NetWitness); with Cisco providing cloud-based security and intelligence support. DNS traffic at Record Low.

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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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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

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

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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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Impacted systems included WordPress and DotNetNuke managed hosting platforms, online databases, email servers, DNS servers, RDP access points, and FTP servers. Our Technology and Information Security teams are working diligently to eliminate the threat and restore our customers to full capacity.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2019

An attacker can intercept the TCP connection in different ways, for example using DNS changer malware, targeting DNS servers and carrying out Man-in-The-Middle attacks. “As each vulnerability affects a different part of the network stack, it impacts a different set of VxWorks versions.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2021

Mozi is an IoT botnet that borrows the code from Mirai variants and the Gafgyt malware , it appeared on the threat landscape in late 2019. According to the researchers, in the last months of 2019, the botnet was mainly involved in DDoS attacks. .”

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IoT DNS Manufacturing Firmware 114

Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2024

For secure communication, operators employ DNS/ICMP tunneling, WSS, and QUIC protocols. GoRed is capable of obtaining credentials from compromised systems and collecting various types of system information, including active processes, host names, network interfaces, and file system structures.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2020

on the CVSS scale and affects Windows Server versions 2003 to 2019. Today we released an update for CVE-2020-1350 , a Critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in Windows DNS Server that is classified as a ‘wormable’ vulnerability and has a CVSS base score of 10.0. Non-Microsoft DNS Servers are not affected.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2020

At the end of 2019, researchers spotted a new TrickBot backdoor framework dubbed Anchor that was using the DNS protocol for C2 communications. Stage 2 Security researcher Waylon Grange first spotted the new Linux variant of Anchor_DNS in July and called it “Anchor_Linux.” ” explained Grange.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The number of infected devices is impressive, on 2019-11-30 a trusted security partner in the US informed Qihoo 360’s Netlab Cybersecurity reported to have observed 1,962,308 unique daily active IPs from the Pink botnet targeting its systems.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2021

The attacks share some similarities with other campaigns targeting Colombian entities, in particular a campaign detailed in February 2019, by QiAnXin. 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.

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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. TrickBot is a popular banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2024

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. ” Orn advertising Araneida Scanner in Feb. 2023 on the forum Cracked.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. Cisco addresses CVE-2019-12643 critical flaw in virtual Service Container for IOS XE. Malspam campaign bypasses secure email gateway using Google Docs.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

Between 2017 and 2019, the APT group mainly used DNS hijacking in its campaigns. The researchers believe that the Turkey-linked APT Sea Turtle has been active since at least 2017. The Sea Turtle APT group focuses primarily on targeting organizations in Europe and the Middle East.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Group-IB, has analyzed key recent changes to the global cyberthreat landscape in the “Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2019/2020” report. According to Group-IB’s experts, the most frustrating trend of 2019 was the use of cyberweapons in military operations. As for 2019, it has become the year of covert military operations in cyberspace.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Researchers believe that at least five different merchants and exchanges were used to fund the Glupteba addresses since 2019. The experts used passive DNS records to uncover Glupteba domains and hosts and analyzed the latest set of TLS certificates used by the bot to figure out the infrastructure used by the attackers.

DNS 118

DNS Antivirus Cryptocurrency Software 118

Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

The expert Bob Diachenko has discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch install belonging to a UK security firm that contained 5 billion records of data leaked in previous incidents that took place between 2012 and 2019. ” wrote Security Discovery’s researcher Bob Diachenko.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2019

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. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2019

We're investigating reports of intermittent DNS resolution errors with Route 53 & our external DNS providers. — AWS Support (@AWSSupport) October 22, 2019. According to the company status page, hackers were targeting the AWS DNS servers flooding them with junk network traffic.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2019

” The GALLIUM threat actor is active, but its activity was more intense between 2018 and mid-2019. link] — bk (Ben K) (@bkMSFT) December 12, 2019. The operators leverage on low cost and easy to replace infrastructure using dynamic-DNS domains and regularly reused hop points. ” continues the analysis.

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Telecommunications DNS Malware Advertising 97

Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2019

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 Ke3chang APT group (a.k.a.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

“After selecting the appropriate vulnerability, it uses the PowerSploit module to reflectively load the embedded exploit bundle binary with the target vulnerability and an MSI command as arguments.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. NCSC report warns of DNS Hijacking Attacks. SAP Patch Day – July 2019 addresses a critical flaw in Diagnostics Agent. CVE-2019-6342 flaw allows hackers to fully compromise Drupal 8.7.4 Kindle Edition. Paper Copy. Once again thank you!

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2024

The Macma macOS backdoor was first detailed by Google in 2021 and has been used since at least 2019. “In addition to the tools documented here, Symantec has seen evidence of the ability to Trojanize Android APKs, SMS interception tools, DNS request interception tools, and even malware families targeting Solaris OS.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Mozi is an IoT botnet that borrows the code from Mirai variants and the Gafgyt malware , it appeared on the threat landscape in late 2019. According to the researchers, in the last months of 2019, the botnet was mainly involved in DDoS attacks.

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