eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

A denial-of-service (DoS) event or attack can occur between a small number of devices such as a pair of servers. These events can occur accidentally and even within a corporate network; however, intentional attacks on internet-facing resources are far more common. Also read: How to Secure DNS. Motivations for DDoS Attacks.

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

now includes groups of rules mapped to the MITRE framework so that customers can both deploy explicit protections and see events mapped to those known attackers’ tactics and techniques. Additionally, the reporting and eventing capabilities have been enhanced to show any events that map to specific tactics as described by MITRE.

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Webroot

MAY 6, 2024

For businesses, this means implementing a comprehensive incident response plan that includes secure, immutable backups and regular testing to ensure rapid recovery in the event of an attack. Combine antivirus tools with DNS protection, endpoint monitoring, and user training for comprehensive protection.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

DNS servers can be specifically targeted by attackers and vulnerable to various types of attacks. If the organization does not use it, UDP access to port 53 (DNS) should be blocked. For more information, see How to Prevent DNS Attacks. Steps to take in the event of a DDoS. Anti-DDoS Architecture. Anti-DDoS Tools.

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Webroot

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In fact, more than half (52%) of respondents now feel more at risk of suffering a ransomware attack due to these unfolding events. A multi-layered approach that includes email security, DNS filtering, endpoint protection, and backup and recovery is essential to mitigating risk and exposure from attacks.

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IT Security Guru

AUGUST 16, 2021

First, business leaders must stop thinking of ransomware as a computer issue; it’s a whole-of-business event that needs to be thought of in business resilience terms, in the same way organisations have had to plan around the pandemic during the past 18 months. There are things that governments should do too. Waking up to the societal threat.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

But more and more, organizations need to plan for the possibility that the worst may happen – and that involves ransomware-proof backups and ransomware removal tools and services. Automatic, secure 50 GB cloud backup. DNS filtering. Further reading: Best Backup Solutions for Ransomware Protection. Dark web monitoring.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2022

That attack was 140 percent larger than a 1 Tbps attack in 2020 and larger than any similar event ever detected on the Azure public cloud, they said. Ransomware attacks can be avoided by simply following best practices around information security, backups , and updates, but DDoS can occur despite doing everything correctly,” Rosen said.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Server: Provides powerful computing and storage in local, cloud, and data center networks to run services (Active Directory, DNS, email, databases, apps). Domain name system (DNS) security: Protects the DNS service from attempts to corrupt DNS information used to access websites or to intercept DNS requests.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

50,000 DDoS attacks on public domain name service (DNS) resolvers. 553% increase in DNS Flood attacks from 1H 2020 to 2H 2023. DDoS attacks on single networks or websites render them unavailable, but DDoS attacks on DNS resolvers bring down all networks and websites using that DNS resource. 54% on-prem infrastructure.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The PlugX families we observed used DNS [ T1071.001 ] [ T1071.004 ] as the transport channel for C2 traffic, in particular TXT queries. Another clue that helped us was the use of DNS tunneling by Winnti which we discovered traces of in memory. The hardcoded 208.67.222.222 resolves to a legitimate OpenDNS DNS server.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

He is the go-to guy when the church wants to post new announcements and events. Luckily Howard kept frequent backups of the church’s website. Website attacks can destroy site content, so backups are crucial to recovering damage. This is Howard. Howard volunteers his time by managing the open-source website for his local church.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 21, 2022

This unfortunate turn of events shows how adversaries can quickly sneak into a system and exploit vulnerabilities to escalate privileges and compromise the whole network. Implement security alerting policies for all changes to security-enabled accounts/groups, and alert on suspicious process creation events (ntdsutil, rar, regedit, etc.).

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

encryption in transit Tools for remote management , global dashboards, and geo IP tracking Access to 24×7 DevOps team for technical support and remediating active threats Logical secure access including role-based access control, 2FA , and SSO Automate configuration backup and recovery for resilient policies and controls.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

Active Administrator simplifies group policy management, monitors the health of domain controllers, and enables automated backup and recovery of AD. Active Administrator further offers options to extend management to Domain Name Servers (DNS) and to administer a digital security certificate lifecycle—all from a single console.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Similarly, spoofed domain name system (DNS) and IP addresses can redirect users from legitimate connections to dangerous and malicious websites. Additional protection may be deployed using browser security, DNS security, or secure browsers to protect endpoints from malicious websites.

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SecureList

JUNE 3, 2024

The common methods for analyzing an iOS mobile infection are either to examine an encrypted full iOS backup or to analyze the network traffic of the affected device. However, some of the things the malware authors came up with, such as placing their Python script inside a domain TXT record on the DNS server, were ingenious.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

The first traditional cybersecurity vendor featured is Barracuda Networks, with consistent recognition for its email security , next-generation firewalls ( NGFW ), web application security , and backups. Networking and IT giant Cisco is an undisputed leader in the secure SD-WAN solution space. Features: Open Systems Secure SD-WAN and SASE.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 21, 2021

It is not too hard to find examples of business-disrupting events. From the DYN DNS attack of 2016 to more recent attacks, such as the ransomware attack against IT service provider Cognizant , every day, the news is teeming with new events that should give any business owner pause. No shortage of real-life examples.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 30, 2023

Even "voguish" and very expensive Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems have their own limitations and disadvantages. Finally, DCAP can also help you quickly recover data from backups in case of ransomware. Depending on the adopted security policies, there are many events to which DCAP can react.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Additional security features include privileged password vaulting, cloud, and virtual infrastructure security, and integrations with existing security information and event managers (SIEM). Other cybersecurity tools offered include DNS filtering, disk encryption , backups , and email security for Microsoft-oriented infrastructure.

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Spinone

AUGUST 12, 2019

To make the migration smooth and not lose critical data along the way, you need to take care of the following things: Backup your files Define data that can’t be migrated and what to do with it Determine what policies (i.e. To avoid this scenario, get started with the migration only after you created a backup for your G Suite data!

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The vulnerability is triggered when an attacker sends an Outlook object (task, message or calendar event) within an extended MAPI property that contains a UNC path to an SMB share on a server controlled by the threat actor, resulting in a Net-NTLMv2 hash leak. org domain.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

At times they have been observed attempting to perform a degree of anti-forensic activities including clearing event logs, time stomping files, and removing scheduled tasks created for some objectives. The text files contain the contents of the Security Event log after the specified date. Maybe because it was never necessary.

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Kali Linux

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Upon login we can see the list at the top: USB Settings , Wi-Fi Settings , Bluetooth , Network Settings , Trigger Actions , HIDScript , Event Log and Generic Settings. Something else to keep in mind when coming up with ideas, you can enable “one shot” mode, which will only trigger once, rather than every time the event happens.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In some cases, DNS amplification was also used. In addition, Glupteba uses the Bitcoin blockchain to store the addresses of backup C2 servers, making it harder to defeat. The quarter’s quietest days fell on Chinese Singles’ Day and Black Friday, two mega shopping events. ris last quarter.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Best network security practices are essential, including using anti-malware, firewalls, intrusion prevention and detection (IPDS), network and log monitoring, data protection, security information and event management (SIEM), and threat intelligence. Often organizations can mitigate ransomware attacks by having up-to-date backups.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

I first met Dan when he was literally saving the world; okay, at least saving the internet as we know it today by disclosing to the major ISPs in the world a flaw he’d found in the Domain Name System or DNS. Not restore from a backup, because other parts of your system may be doing other things. When was the backup made?

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Fox IT

JUNE 23, 2020

These legal events set in motion a chain of events to disconnect the association of the current Evil Corp group and these two specific indicted individuals and the historic actions of Evil Corp. Attribution and Actor Background. CobaltStrike C&C Domains. adsmarketart.com advancedanalysis.be CobaltStrike Beacon config.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A hacker from United States named P4x has admitted that he took down the internet of North Korea last week by launching a distributed denial of service attack on the central DNS servers of the country. Kim Kyong was thought to have died following an execution by her narrow-minded husband, Jang Song Thaek, 6 years ago.

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Cisco Security

MAY 24, 2021

million ransom and spending a long week restoring backups, Colonial was able to resume operations. Enforce security at the DNS layer. Cisco Umbrella analyses DNS queries to block requests to malicious domains, suspicious files or direct IP connections from command-and-control callbacks. Have backups ready. What about you?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 14, 2022

In the past, this might have been a straightforward decision for companies with good backups and the ability to recover quickly. One of the biggest challenges that ransomware brings about is the fact that many organizations are faced with the tough decision of whether to pay, or not to pay the ransom.

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