Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2022

That’s where DNS filtering comes in. But first, DNS in a nutshell. So normally, every time your customer types in your web address, their computer makes a request to a DNS server. The DNS server, in turn, tells the computer where to go. But which web-based cyberthreats in particular does DNS filtering stop, you ask?

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SecureList

MAY 17, 2021

Bizarro is yet another banking Trojan family originating from Brazil that is now found in other regions of the world. Attempts have now been made to steal credentials from customers of 70 banks from different European and South American countries. The codenames are bank names written in leetspeak.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 1, 2021

Primarily the Pharming attack is planned to gain sensitive data like login credentials, personally identifiable information (PII), social security numbers, bank details, and more. The Pharming attacks are carried out by modifying the settings on the victim’s system or compromising the DNS server. DNS Poisoning.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2024

A month earlier, Dubai and Abu Dhabi Police warned citizens not to share their confidential information, including their account, card details or online banking credentials. Based on available Passive DNS records, Resecurity identified over 144 domain names registered by the actors in the.com,om,site,top and.icu domain zones.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2018

Crooks are targeting DLink DSL modem routers in Brazil to redirect users to fake bank websites by carrying out DNS hijacking. Crooks are targeting DLink DSL modem routers in Brazil to redirect users to fake bank websites by changing the DNS settings. D-Link DSL-2740R / Unauthenticated Remote DNS Change Exploit [link].

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2019

A still ongoing spam campaign that has been active during the last months has been distributing the Redaman banking malware. Experts at Palo Alto Networks continue to monitor an ongoing spam campaign that has been distributing the Redaman banking malware. SecurityAffairs – Redaman banking Trojan, spam). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 14, 2022

In April 2022, hackers targeted the customers of eight Malaysian banks by urging them to download malicious apps. The post What is DNS Spoofing and Cache Poisoning? The post What is DNS Spoofing and Cache Poisoning? The post What is DNS Spoofing and Cache Poisoning? appeared first on EasyDMARC.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

Other victims included one of France’s largest hospital systems; a French automobile manufacturer; a major French bank; companies that work with or manage networks for French postal and transportation systems; a domestic firm that operates a number of airports in France; a state-owned railway company; and multiple nuclear research facilities.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Charged in a Los Angeles federal court this week were the alleged operators of “Downthem” — a booter service the government says helped some 2,000 customers launch debilitating digital assaults at more than 200,000 targets, including many government, banking, university and gaming Web sites. Charles, Ill.,

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 6, 2022

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Intuit phish says “We have put a temporary hold on your account” The Quad commits to strengthening cybersecurity in software, supply chains Double-whammy attack follows fake Covid alert with a bogus bank call Microsoft Office zero-day “Follina”—it’s not a bug, it’s a feature! (It’s

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Fox IT

JUNE 29, 2022

Like the majority of Android banking malware, Flubot abuses Accessibility Permissions and Services in order to steal the victim’s credentials, by detecting when the official banking applicationis open to show a fake web injection, a phishing website similar to the login form of the banking application. Introduction.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

The attacks were detected on August 13, 2018, experts revealed that the hackers targeted also the NS Bank in Russia and Carpatica/Patria in Romania. Cobalt crime gang has been active since at least 2016, it targeted banks worldwide. 2831589 - ETPRO TROJAN Cobalt Group Downloader (apstore.info in DNS Lookup) (trojan.rules).

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In recent months, you’ve likely heard about DNS over HTTPS , also known as DNS 2.0 and DoH, which is a method that uses the HTTPS protocol to encrypt DNS requests, shielding their contents from malicious actors and others who might misuse such information. Ultimately, this DNS privacy upgrade has been a long time coming.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Attackers have already hijacked over 100,000 home routers, the malicious code allows to modify DNS settings to hijack the traffic and redirect users to phishing websites. GhostDNS reminds us of the infamous DNSChanger malware that made the headlines for its ability to change DNS settings on the infected device.

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Webroot

MARCH 9, 2021

Pretending to be someone else, these hackers manipulate their victims into opening doors to systems or unwittingly sharing passwords or banking details. DNS (Domain Name System) is especially vulnerable. However, cybercriminals can also use legal DNS traffic surveillance to their advantage.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 19, 2018

I was chatting to some folks at a bank just the other day about a bunch of modern web security standards. Whilst this blog post is about a Pluralsight course I created with Lars Klint , it only really hit me during that bank conversation just how much there is to take onboard when it comes to securing things in the browser today.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 4, 2023

You may be familiar with the common phishing tactics like fake emails or text messages from a hacker pretending to be someone at your place of work, or maybe it’s someone pretending to be from your bank or credit card company.

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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. Crooks targeted users of many major organizations, including Netflix and large banks like Santander, Bradesco, and Banco do Brasil.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

bank accounts. Those clients included crooks using malware like Zeus , SpyEye , Citadel and the Blackhole exploit kit to build botnets and steal banking credentials. I can not provide DNS for u, only domains. Agent commission is 5 percent of total amount received to the personal bank account.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2019

. “At this point, we believe this to be an email phishing incident in which an unauthorized third party used a third-party system to generate an email campaign to deliver what we believe to be a banking trojan,” said Dan Higgins , UR’s chief information officer.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2020

TrickBot is a popular banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features. At the end of 2019, researchers spotted a new TrickBot backdoor framework dubbed Anchor that was using the DNS protocol for C2 communications. ” explained Grange.

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DNS Banking Advertising Malware 110

Troy Hunt

JULY 21, 2021

Not only do they control the access rights to the mailbox, they also control DNS and MX records therefore they control the routing of emails. But what's not nuanced and not up for debate is whether the employer has the ability to inspect the email accounts on their domains.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2025

This includes: Passive DNS Data : Historical records of DNS queries, enabling investigators to trace domains used in past attacks. Infrastructure Intelligence fingerprints past DNS resolutions and connects that domain to command-and-control servers, associated IP addresses, and related malware samples. Here are two examples: 1.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

” “We stand against DNS abuse in any form and maintain multiple systems and protocols to protect all the TLDs we operate,” the statement continued. GoDaddy says it “is committed to supporting a safer online environment and proactively addressing this issue by assessing it against our own anti-abuse mitigation system.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

DNS Spoofing DNS (Domain Name System) is like the internet’s phone book, translating domain names into IP addresses. Hackers can manipulate DNS settings to redirect your internet traffic to malicious websites, even if you entered the correct web address.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2022

The FBI officially linked the Diavol ransomware operation to the infamous TrickBot gang , the group that is behind the TrickBot banking trojan. Diavol is associated with developers from the Trickbot Group, who are responsible for the Trickbot Banking Trojan. “The FBI first learned of Diavol ransomware in October 2021.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2023

domains were registered to attack some of the United States’ most prominent companies, including Bank of America, Amazon, Apple, AT&T, Citi, Comcast, Microsoft, Meta, and Target. Interisle’s newest study examined six million phishing reports between May 1, 2022 and April 30, 2023, and identified approximately 30,000.US

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2024

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

For years leading up to 2015, “ admin@manipulaters.com ” was the name on the registration records for thousands of scam domains that spoofed some of the world’s top banks and brand names, but particularly Apple and Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The past months have shown that the most dangerous hacks involved DNS hijacking, which helped attackers manipulate DNS records for MITM attacks. Hacking banks around the world is the prerogative of Russian-speaking hackers: they still make up the majority of attacking groups. Bank card compromise, carding, and data leaks.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

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

Healthcare 145

Healthcare Ransomware Cybercrime Advertising 145

Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

“Using the internal router, it would be possible to poison the DNS cache of the LAN router of the infected node, enabling further attacks.” ” The service charged 20 percent of all “scam wires,” unauthorized wire transfers resulting from bank account takeovers or scams like CEO impersonation schemes.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2020

Security researchers at Trustwave have discovered another malware family delivered through tax software that Chinese banks require companies operating in the country to install. Security researchers discovered another malware family delivered through tax software that some businesses operating in China are required to install.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2022

TrickBot is a popular Windows banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features, including powerful password-stealing capabilities. The news wave of attacks aimed at cryptocurrency firms, most of them located in the U.S. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The Novidade exploit kit leverages cross-site request forgery (CSRF) to change the Domain Name System (DNS) settings of SOHO routers and redirect traffic from the connected devices to the IP address under the control of the attackers. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. ” continues the analysis.

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DNS Advertising Firmware Banking 111

Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2022

The Android malware has been used to steal banking credentials, payment information, and sensitive data from infected devices. The feature allows operators to elude DNS blocklists in an attempt to isolate the C2 infrastructure. the malware communicates with the C2 server through DNS Tunneling over HTTPS. . In version 4.9,

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2022

Both container images also included attack tools that initiate a DNS flood aimed at against Russian banks. A container image with a DDoS attack tool over TCP protocol through multiple connection requests, which targets multiple service providers in Russia.

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