Remove Consumer Protection Remove DNS Remove Malware
article thumbnail

Timeshare Owner? The Mexican Drug Cartels Want You

Krebs on Security

It is unclear whether the Dimitruks were robbed by people working for the Jalisco cartel, but it is clear that whoever is responsible for managing many of the above-mentioned domains — including the DNS provider datasur[.]host host — recently compromised their computer with information-stealing malware.

Scams 308
article thumbnail

CISA, SolarWinds up interest in security scoring

SC Magazine

So similarly, if we were to see from our data that there is a company that has outdated browsers, they have patches that they haven’t released and they have a malware beaconing out onto the internet, that’s an indication of poor cyber hygiene. But looking from the outside might not tell the whole tale, right?

article thumbnail

The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

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. With a database operating system, you’ll known in milliseconds if you’ve been attacked with malware.