eSecurity Planet

MARCH 28, 2025

VPN tunneling: Scalable IPsec VPN tunneling helps protect remote and distributed workforces by securing communication channels. Key capabilities to highlight include URL blocking, DNS security, and network analytics. It deserves a special callout for its documentation alone, with plenty of well-designed help pages.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2021

During an attack of this nature, it is difficult to find clear patterns without fast data and log processing and ad-hoc tools but our DNS servers were clearly recording these spikes of DNS updates every time the botnet was renewing IP addresses. Expert documentation from Luminati explaining the “resolve DNS at super proxy” feature.

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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. Diagram of SSH tunnel creation SoftEther VPN The next tool that the attackers used for tunneling was the server utility (VPN Server) from the SoftEther VPN package.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2021

Some of the phishing emails from the current campaign were sent from IP addresses corresponding to a range that belongs to Powerhouse Management, a VPN service. ESET also documented the use of heavily obfuscated AutoIt droppers, in this attack scenario the first-stage malware performs the injection and execution of the payload.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Deploy DDoS Monitoring : Watch for signs of an attack and document attacks for future improvements. 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. Hardening Against DDoS Attacks. Isolate targets.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2019

You are asked in the email to confirm some company details or review a document by clicking on a specific link which further requires you to log in with your official account. It involves DNS cache poisoning as it redirects users to a malicious site even if they enter the correct web address.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

To help you visualize the process better, we’ve also provided screenshots from Microsoft Azure’s application gateway documentation. ALG supports client requests by resolving its domain name via DNS and delivering the frontend IP address to the client. It often involves requests for files, web pages, or other internet services.

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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.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Specifically, the first header received in the email indicates that the message originated from the IP address 69.167.8.118, which is associated with Powerhouse Management VPN. The log, in this case, is a simple XML document that contains all the references within elements labeled as NameCliente. netperfect5.publicvm[.]comperfect8.publicvm[.]comAll

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

IOCs that could be shared are at the end of this document. 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. GET / */[redacted].rar.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

DNS changer Malicious actors may use IoT devices to target users who connect to them. A 2022 campaign known as Roaming Mantis, or Shaoye, spread an Android app whose capabilities included modifying DNS settings on Wi-Fi routers through the administration interface. The practice has not become widespread due to relative inefficiency.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 30, 2023

Out of sheer ignorance, someone can put a secret document in a folder with public access or request unnecessary privileges for working with files. Many advanced security systems cannot prevent a scenario in which a user takes a screenshot from a confidential document and then sends it via Telegram to an unauthorized recipient.

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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). Virtual private networks (VPNs): Secure remote user or branch office access to network resources through encrypted connections to firewalls or server applications.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

After obtaining a valid account, they use this account to access the victim’s VPN, Citrix or another remote service that allows access to the network of the victim. In one specific case, the adversary now armed with the valid account, was able to access a document stored in SharePoint Online, part of Microsoft Office 365.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

Here is a list containing some of the services that the Nigerian Tesla threat actor used: PerfectMoney Glassdoor signupanywhere (could be a source to get victims emails) omail.io (service for extracting emails) warzone.ws (Warzone RAT) worldwiredlabs (NetWire RAT) le-vpn.com and bettervpn.com zenmate.com tigervpn hotvpn (VPN provider) securitycode.eu

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Hacker's King

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

DNS Twist is a powerful tool that helps organizations alleviate this problem through analyzing domain names differences. DNS Twist is specialized in generating a comprehensive list of domain names that closely resemble to the given domain. Furthermore, DNS Twist includes fuzzy hashing techniques to estimate webpage similarity.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

DNS attacks : DNS cache poisoning, or hijacking, redirects a legitimate site’s DNS address and takes users to a malicious site when they attempt to navigate to that webpage. VPN Vulnerabilities Although VPNs create a private tunnel for organizations’ network communications, they can still be breached.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

It’s a good idea to try things on your own and then read the documentation or tutorials. You may use a VPN or install utilities to capture and forward traffic to other subnets, or configure proxychains. The report is the heart of a pentest and a critical document that literally determines the value of your work.

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SecureList

JUNE 2, 2022

This can be done with the use of a VPN, but these may be illegal depending on the jurisdiction and would typically not be available to Chinese-speaking targets. Full control over the DNS, meaning they can provide responses for non-existent domains.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

To be a NOC partner, you must be willing to collaborate, share API (Automated Programming Interface) keys and documentation, and come together (even as market competitors) to secure the conference, for the good of the attendees. Base64 credentials used by Urban VPN to get configuration files. iPhone Mail using IMAP to authenticate.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 8, 2023

It can be time consuming to establish these protocols on an organization’s DNS servers, but doing so will provide two key benefits. Email security tools offer features that screen emails for malicious content using antivirus, anti-spam, DNS, attachment, and other analytics.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Policies typically will be written documents that detail the requirements that will be enforced, such as password complexity. Virtual Private Network (VPN) : For remote access, remote desktop protocol (RDP) no longer can be considered safe. Instead, organizations should use a virtual private network (VPN) solution.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 6, 2023

GoDaddy, Network Solutions) DNS service (E.g., If privilege escalation is possible from within an already-authenticated account, the mechanism by which that occurs must be thoroughly documented and monitored (logged) too. Akamai, CloudFront) Certificate providers (E.g., Cross-session data pollution and/or capture must be prevented.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

It satisfies the six key SASE capabilities with: Centralized control through onsite (Panorama Managed) or cloud-hosted (Strata Cloud Manager) consoles that provides a single interface to manage other components and policies Monitored network status through advanced and AI-automated software defined wide area network (SD-WAN) capabilities that provide (..)

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2023

You decide to take a look at their DNS cache to get a list of internal resources the user has been browsing and as you look through the list, there are several that you recognize based on naming conventions. They’d have to be on the VPN to access it”). Introduction Let me paint a picture for you. version Display version information.

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Kali Linux

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

As we mention in the Kali Raspberry Pi 4 documentation we use the nexmon firmware for the Raspberry Pi devices, so lets try searching for that instead: kali@kalipi:~$ dmesg | grep nexmon [ 5.070542] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds: Firmware: BCM4345/6 wl0: Oct 3 2021 18:14:30 version 7.45.206 (nexmon.org: 2.2.2-343-ge3c8-dirty-5) 192.168.42.1:255.255.255.0:securekalipi:wlan0

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

It was first publicly documented in 2014, in the aftermath of the Gamma Group hacking incident. On February 24, the National Security Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) publicly warned that a threat actor had exploited a national documents circulation system (SEI EB) to distribute malicious documents to Ukrainian public authorities.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In June, more than six months after DarkHalo had gone dark, we observed the DNS hijacking of multiple government zones of a CIS member state that allowed the attacker to redirect traffic from government mail servers to computers under their control – probably achieved by obtaining credentials to the control panel of the victims’ registrar.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In this document, we decided to provide a brief description of the Trickbot modules. It retrieves the DNS names of all the directory trees in the local computer’s forest. This module uses an RAS (Remote Access Service) API to establish a VPN (Virtual Private Network) connection.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Finally, it is worth mentioning the CVE-2022-34724 vulnerability, which affects Windows DNS Server and can lead to denial of service if exploited. In Q3 2022, malicious Microsoft Office documents again accounted for the greatest number of detections — 80% of the exploits we discovered, although the number decreased slightly compared to Q2.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 28, 2022

The requirements suggest taking an iterative approach: “Agencies must identify at least one internal-facing FISMA Moderate application and make it fully operational and accessible over the public internet” and “without relying on a virtual private network (VPN) or other network tunnel.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2025

President Donald Trump granted a “full and unconditional pardon” to Ross Ulbricht, Silk Road creator Pwn2Own Automotive 2025 Day 1: organizers awarded $382,750 for 16 zero-days Subaru Starlink flaw allowed experts to remotely hack cars Two ransomware groups abuse Microsofts Office 365 platform to gain access to target organizations Cloudflare (..)

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