SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Analysis of samples exploiting CVE-2023-23397 vulnerability On March 14, Microsoft reported a critical Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerability (CVE-2023-23397) in the Outlook client. This feature bypass vulnerability (CVE-2023-29324) was itself patched in May. org domain.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2024

The malicious code can also perform DNS and HTTP hijacking within private IP spaces. “What makes this malware family so insidious is the ability to perform HTTP and DNS hijacking for connections to private IP addresses. ” The malware has been active since at least July 27, 2023, with indications of earlier versions.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

During our investigation, we found out that the campaign started in February 2023. SteelFox resolves this via Google Public DNS and DNS over HTTPS (DoH). Technical Details Background In August 2024, we stumbled upon a massive infection caused by an unknown bundle consisting of miner and stealer malware. communication.

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SecureList

JUNE 7, 2023

Roaming Mantis implements new DNS changer We continue to track the activities of Roaming Mantis (aka Shaoye), a well-established threat actor targeting countries in Asia. Android malware, used by Roaming Mantis, and discovered a DNS changer function that was implemented to target specific Wi-Fi routers used mainly in South Korea.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Although the " unauthorized party" that compromised LastPass users' data was able to steal password vaults, it's likely that they are having a hard time cracking them open. Brute force guessing techniques may be successful for some weak passwords, but it's an approach that quickly runs out of steam.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

The 2023 vendor surveys arriving this quarter paint a picture of a cybersecurity landscape under attack, with priority issues affecting deployment, alert response, and exposed vulnerabilities. Sophos: Noted that 43% of all 2023 malware signature updates are for stealers, spyware, and keyloggers often used to steal credentials from devices.

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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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Cisco Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

XDR (eXtended Detection and Response) Integrations At Black Hat USA 2023, Cisco Secure was the official Mobile Device Management, DNS (Domain Name Service) and Malware Analysis Provider. We appreciate alphaMountain.ai , Pulsedive and Recorded Future donating full licenses to the Black Hat USA 2023 NOC.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 3, 2023

Image: Joerussori.com That other website is a domain registered in January 2023 called thedomainsvault[.]com However, searching passive DNS records at DomainTools.com for thedomainsvault[.]com A deceptive snail mail solicitation from DomainNetwork’s previous iteration — US Domain Authority. Thedomainsvault[.]com

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Another four months went by and ZDI sent an ultimatum announcing the intention to publish the case as a zero-day advisory on September 27, 2023. Let’s look, for example, at the vulnerability listed as " CVE-2023-42115 ( CVSS score 9.8 The solution for CVE-2023-42117 is to not use Exim behind an untrusted proxy-protocol proxy.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

Throughout 2023, Tornote was hosted with the Russian provider DDoS-Guard , at the Internet address 186.2.163[.]216. A review of the passive DNS records tied to this address shows that apart from subdomains dedicated to tornote[.]io, io, the main other domain at this address was hkleaks[.]ml. Among those is rustraitor[.]info

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2023

An attacker could also use these vulnerabilities to access and control networked smart devices (security cameras, thermostats, smart locks), change router settings including credentials or DNS settings, or use a compromised network to launch attacks against other devices or networks.” ” reads the advisory published by NETGEAR.

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SecureList

AUGUST 30, 2023

IT threat evolution in Q2 2023 IT threat evolution in Q2 2023. Non-mobile statistics IT threat evolution in Q2 2023. We had observed few victims compromised using Gopuram, but the number of infections increased in March 2023 — a spike that was directly related to the 3CX supply chain attack.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

Between 2017 and 2019, the APT group mainly used DNS hijacking in its campaigns. During one of the most recent campaigns in 2023, the APT group employed a reverse TCP shell named SnappyTCP to target Linux/Unix systems. Create and enforce a password policy with adequate complexity requirements for specific accounts.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2023

A financially motivated actor linked to the FIN8 group exploits the CVE-2023-3519 RCE in attacks on Citrix NetScaler systems in massive attacks. The hackers are exploiting the remote code execution, tracked as CVE-2023-3519 , in a large-scale campaign. The flaw CVE-2023-3519 (CVSS score: 9.8) ” continues the report.

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Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Cisco provided automated malware analysis, threat intelligence, DNS visibility and Intrusion Detection; brought together with SecureX. Cleartext Usernames and Passwords. Domain Name Server (DNS). Look forward to seeing you in 2023! Unencrypted network traffic. Voice over IP. Threat Hunting. Malicious Behavior.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. As we’ll see in a moment, Salomon is now behind bars, in part because he helped to rob dozens of small businesses in the United States using some of those same harvested passwords.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warning of cyber attacks against Citrix NetScaler Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway devices exploiting recently discovered zero-day CVE-2023-3519. “Exploits of CVE-2023-3519 on unmitigated appliances have been observed.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 14, 2023

The company also offers a range of additional cybersecurity solutions, including DDoS protection, web application firewalls, and DNS services. By requiring users to provide two forms of authentication, such as a password and a security token , 2FA can significantly reduce the risk of unauthorized access to online accounts and other resources.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Fake Prime email The email claims to have been sent from “Prime” and has the subject "New Membership Statement : Renewal P‎‎rime Membership statement was ended - Your renewal scheduled on February 21, 2023." Next, the site directs you to a tailored password page, using the information you just entered.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 24, 2023

GuardDuty collects data from a variety of sources, including AWS CloudTrail logs, VPC Flow Logs, DNS Logs, Amazon S3 Logs, Amazon EC2 Logs, and AWS Config. Read next: 10 Top Cloud Security Companies The post Top 10 Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) in 2023 appeared first on eSecurityPlanet.

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Cisco Umbrella : DNS visibility and security. We have ideas for even more integrations for Black Hat Asia and Black Hat USA 2023. This reduces the confusion of managing multiple accounts and passwords. The last call is to send a password reset email for the Malware Analytics user. Integrating Security.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Palo Alto’s Unit 42 research team said that Akira led the number of ransomware posts from new leak sites in 2023. Changing passwords, secrets, and pre-shared keys. The CVEs are CVE-2023-40057 , CVE-2024-23476 , CVE-2024-23477 , CVE-2024-23478 , and CVE-2024-23479. Akira is a particularly dangerous brand of ransomware.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 14, 2022

Research by Cisco estimates the volume of DDoS attacks will surge from more than 10 million in 2021 up to 15 million by 2023. Edge DNS is a DNS service that moves DNS resolution from on premises or data centers to the Akamai Intelligent Edge. Protects websites, networks, DNS and individual IPs. Amazon Web Services.

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SecureList

JUNE 3, 2024

In late December, in a presentation at the 37th Chaos Communication Congress (37C3), experts from our Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) described the attack chain in detail , including – for the first time – how the attackers exploited the CVE-2023-38606 hardware vulnerability. You can read the full analysis here.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2023

Twitter confirmed that a security incident publicly exposed Circle tweets FBI seized other domains used by the shadow eBook library Z-Library WordPress Advanced Custom Fields plugin XSS exposes +2M sites to attacks Fortinet fixed two severe issues in FortiADC and FortiOS Pro-Russia group NoName took down multiple France sites, including the French (..)

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SecureList

JUNE 5, 2023

It is known to use the technique of querying DNS servers to obtain the base64-encoded URL in order to receive the next stage of another malware family currently distributed by Satacom. To do so, it performs a DNS request to don-dns[.]com com (a decrypted HEX string) through Google DNS (8.8.8.8, com don-dns[.]com

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 24, 2023

A deployment guide for wireless ThousandEyes agents deployed to monitor the Black Hat 2023 conference by Adam Kilgore & Ryan MacLennan ThousandEyes (TE) Black Hat 2023 Deployment Guide This guide documents the setup and installation procedures used to deploy ThousandEyes at Black Hat 2023. bin/bash /configure_te_pi.sh

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 15, 2023

We can't touch DNS. Read more: [link] — Have I Been Pwned (@haveibeenpwned) January 5, 2023 That's a sizeable whack of data, in fact it was the 14th largest in HIBP out of the existing 644 in there at the time. We don't have any of those 4 aliases on our domain. We can't add a meta tag.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The attackers, who targeted the MSP’s network from October 2023 to January 2024, silently monitored and manipulated the network for months, leveraging legitimate remote access tools like AnyDesk and TeamViewer and attempting to install malware like Remcos RAT and AsyncRAT.

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SecureList

APRIL 22, 2024

A connection like this created on domain controllers allows attackers to obtain the IP addresses of hosts on the internal network through DNS queries. c:intelfkw.exe" 20230626 pdf;doc;docx;xls;xlsx In this case, the attackers collected all MS Excel, MS Word and PDF files modified after June 26, 2023.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

However, as of September 2023, the number had dropped to 60,000 since the last update in April 2023. This information includes website login usernames and passwords, as well as personal autofill data such as name, address, phone number, company, and job title. As of 2023, it is trading at around $150.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2023

In April 2023, Bleeping Computer and other tech outlets like TechRadar began circulating reports of cybercriminals successfully hacking WordPress websites. As of May 2023, an official CVE designation is still pending. Some are less obvious, such as ensuring sound DNS security through solutions like Cisco Umbrella or DNSFilter.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 26, 2023

And they have shown no signs of slowing down in 2023 As of January 2023, Vice Society has already published the data of six schools on their leak site. Around 40% of the victims shared on the Vice Society leak site are educational institutions, a large proportion compared to other gangs. The Vice Society leak site 3.

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BH Consulting

JULY 17, 2024

He added that IT professionals relying on strong passwords or the ability to spot phishing isn’t enough. Howden’s annual report found that reported ransomware incidents were up by 18 per cent in the first five months of this year compared to 2023. MORE The US CISA agency has a guide to implementing DNS protocols.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2023

Figure 2 shows a Mystic Stealer sample that retrieves the current system time and compares the value to 1685318914 (0x6473ED02), which when converted from an epoch to a timestamp translates to Sun May 28 17:08:34 2023. One or more domains were additionally registered in 2023. For example, the domain alchemistwallet[.]io

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SecureList

APRIL 24, 2023

Introduction We introduced Tomiris to the world in September 2021, following our investigation of a DNS-hijack against a government organization in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The following map shows the countries where we detected Tomiris targets (colored in green: Afghanistan and CIS members or ratifiers).

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